It took Faith Akopov three attempts at starting her own business before she found the key ingredient to success: passion.She discovered it in a business called Tri-Cities Tackle, located at 660 George Washington Way, Suite M, in Richland. It’s inside the Nutrex Building next door to the Richland Dugout.“Learning your...
By Karina EliasSpokane Journal of BusinessSmall employers in Washington state face double-digit increases in health-care insurance rates for 2023, in some cases.In most instances, those small employers, which the state defines as those with 50 employees or fewer, are sustaining the largest increases in premiums in years.Seattle-based Premera Blue Cross,...
Periodically checking and updating beneficiary designations on retirement accounts and life insurance is prudent.The next time you navigate the online portal or the old school paper form to write in your updated beneficiary selection, look a little harder at some options you may have previously overlooked.Often, the beneficiary selection is...
The Falls will marry apartments and commercial space in a single development in Kennewick’s Southridge area.It promises to be one of the first true mixed-use project in Kennewick and to showcase the ambitions of its builder, Pasco’s Elite Construction + Development.Mixing uses in a single development is not new, but...
Nine months after a fire forced Foodies from its downtown Kennewick space, the restaurant has been reborn in a new riverfront location where it can seat twice as many people. “It wasn’t a sad thing,” said owner Joanna Wilson of the closure of the former Foodies on West Kennewick Avenue.She’s leasing...
The Washington Army National Guard welcomed a 150-member company of soldiers to its $14.2 million Richland Readiness Center on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on Dec. 7.It took 10 years to conceive, fund and build Richland’s first armory and the first new National Guard facility in Benton County since the...
Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia.The State Environmental Review Act, or SEPA, often provides the first look at the mixed-use projects, mini storage facilities, apartments, industrial expansions, subdivisions and more that are working their way through the various...
Local Bounti Corp. has resumed construction of a $40 million project to establish commercial greenhouses in east Pasco following a months-long pause while it absorbed the purchase of a California rival.Local Bounti will cultivate live lettuce, herbs and leafy greens sold through groceries. It is not a cannabis company.The Pasco...
The ownership of a longtime advertising agency has changed hands.PS Media Inc.’s new owner and president is Tony Moser, who’s been with the business for almost eight years. Tony MoserMoser bought the Kennewick-based business, established in 1999, from Mark Showalter and Dave Praino. The deal was finalized Oct. 14. Terms...
The Washington Department of Financial Services has issued a fresh warning to residents to be cautious about investing in “unregulated” products in light of the failures of FTX and BlockFi, the cryptocurrency exchanges that collapsed into bankruptcy.“Today, more than ever, it’s important for investors to be fully aware of the...
