While many business owners felt fortunate to have emerged from the pandemic still operating, a handful of Tri-City entrepreneurs decided to take the plunge and expand – often to Spokane.After noticing other businesses entering the market two hours north, Rich Breshears of Breshears Professional Photography jokingly questioned, “Is that the...
Non-retirement investment accounts are often set up with wealth management firms.When the account is set up, there is an option to put a beneficiary designation on the account and oftentimes the account is then designated as a TOD (Transfer on Death) or a POD (Payable on Death) account.With this type...
Pasco’s oldest continuously operating restaurant has been serving the Tri-City community for 58 years.Chinese Gardens at 1520 N. Fourth Ave. has been a Pasco cornerstone since late founder Jack Lee opened it in 1965.The building is hard to miss with its mashup of pagoda-esque midcentury brick architecture and flamboyant, dragon-flanked...
Chauné Fitzgerald continues to make a mark on the Tri-City community through her volunteer work and advocacy, operating her own business and starting a successful nonprofit.She’s also working to launch a Tri-City chapter of the Washington African American Chamber of Commerce.But the Richland entrepreneur says she regularly feels unseen or...
Naima Chambers-SmithCEOTri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion CouncilNaima Chambers-SmithNumber of employees you oversee: We have less than five paid employees. However, we have approximately 30 members of the council and over 130 volunteers in the last year alone.Brief background of your businessor organization:Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council (TCD&IC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Installing unique, shiny granite surfaces is The Granite Guy’s specialty.The family-owned company, located just upriver from the cable bridge in Pasco, has been in business for 10 years.“We basically do anything: kitchens, bathroom, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces,” said Irving Ortega.He, his wife Cassandra, and his brother Omar, own The Granite Guy...
The words scrawled on the walls after a smashing session at Take A Break in Kennewick show the catharsis.“Women Veteran Approved.”“It’s OK to Not Be OK.”“Know Your Worth.”“Cancer Sucks.”“Breathe In, Breathe Out, Swing.”Brigette Rose hatched the idea for Take A Break last summer, saying what the area needed was a...
A young relative asked Jeff Losey if he should wait for the housing market to cool down before purchasing his first home.Losey, executive director of the Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities, said he advised against waiting.“The water level is what it is,” he said, referring to current home prices. “It’s...
Ben Franklin Transit is embedding a transit hub into the heart of a future development in one of the most prominent retail corridors in south Richland.The transit agency will build its hub on a strip of land bordering the Southwest Richland Park & Ride, off Columbia Park Trail near the...
Great Floors, the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based flooring chain, sold five locations in a $33 million sale-leaseback deal that includes its Kennewick location.The portfolio also included Great Floors stores in Coeur d’Alene, Spokane Valley, Lacey and Yakima.The buyers were mostly 1031-exchange investors from California and Western Washington – meaning they were...
