A Bellevue-based developer is converting a north Richland building into a coffee shop to serve residents and workers near the PNNL campus.IC University Square LLC plans to apply for permits to reconfigure the building in January, with a tentative opening date in mid-2022.The LLC is associated with Shotgun Creek Investments,...
Graze – a Place to Eat is making its biggest bet ever on the Tri-Cities with a new location planned in the former China Café spot in Kennewick.Graze owners Rebecca and John Lastoskie bought the restaurant at 131 N. Ely St. in July and expect to open it in mid-2022...
Fran Rish Stadium at Richland High School will get a $10 million update beginning in February.The Richland School District expects the eight-month project to wrap up by September, according to an environmental checklist filed under Washington’s Environmental Protection Act in October.The voter-approved project includes new artificial turf, track surface, grandstand...
Ryan Companies US Inc. of Bellevue and Minneapolis is proceeding on development of two distribution centers for Amazon Inc. Both are more than 1 million square feet and will collectively employ about 1,500. Project Pearl, above, is at 1351 S. Road 40 East and has a construction value of $61...
The Port of Benton Commission selected Christy Rasmussen, a former Christ the King School principal and current Hanford employee, to fill the board seat vacated when Robert Larson retired in October with two years left of his term.Rasmussen was one of four candidates interviewed in a special commission session on Nov. 29. She...
By Wendy Culverwell and Kristina LordCindy Mosley-Cleary took over a gift shop in downtown Kennewick about six years ago and made it her own, packing it with charming pick-me-ups and home décor items.She may be relatively new at owning a retail business, but she had decades of retail sales experience...
Junus KhanCarbitex Inc., the Kennewick tech manufacturer that turns carbon fabric into flexible carbon composites, had a choice to make when it debuted in 2012.Its patented, flexible-yet-rigid composite material could be used in any number of products. Junus Khan, founder and chairman, had to figure out which one to target.Four...
Years after a Richland entrepreneur launched a business and grew it into an established IT support provider, a Utah company has acquired it, transforming Elevate into Executech.The service will stay local, all jobs will remain, and the former CEO of Elevate, Paul Carlisle, is proud to report that each employee...
