Mother Nature recently shared herwintry mix with the Tri-Cities, but the Three Rivers campus wants to be able tocreate its own ice year-round.Construction of a new $3.4 million iceplant is underway at the Kennewick campus, which is home to the Toyota Center,Toyota Arena and Three Rivers Convention Center.The Toyota Center...
Road68’s development boom will continue this year with an 82-townhome development project at the end of Chapel Hill Boulevard, nestled against Interstate 182 off one of Pasco’s busiest roads. EnvisionNorthwest LLC, a Kirkland-based developer, has begun construction on 41 duplex buildings on both sides of a single road, which ends in...
Desert Buick GMC has been renamed to include Speck brandThe owners of C. Speck Motors Inc.have bought another established car dealership in the region, bringing theirtotal number of dealerships to five. The sale of Desert Buick GMC at 2910W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick resulted in an immediate rebranding to SpeckBuick...
Three local investors team up for $2M indoor family fun centerA trio ofentrepreneurs is investing $2 million in a large indoor family fun center planned near Columbia Centermall in Kennewick. Developers hope to make an announcement soon about thelocation for Washington state’s first Launch Trampoline Park and hope to openit...
PFLAG’s Benton-Franklin chapter offers several training sessions every month for employersJanie Romine remembers the time she was counseled byadministrators against openly talking about her gay son with her colleagues. It taught her a valuable lesson: the workplace is notinclusive and supportive by default.“That was a glaring example of discrimination of...
By D. Patrick Jones“Women hold up half the sky,” ChairmanMao Zedong famously uttered, when discussing the role of women in the Chineserevolution. Since then, the phrase has become a rallying point for many women.Do they hold up half of the economic sky in the greater Tri-Cities? Some dataare available to...
By Danielle Kane We’ve all heard the stereotypes:millennials are entitled. Gen Xers are slackers. Baby Boomers can’t adapt. AndGen Z? So far, the youngest generation to enter the work force has beenpigeon-holded as “too obsessed with themselves to produce quality work.”But, when we dig deeper, we find thatthe labels that...
The Evergreen State is among the top 10 best states forfemale entrepreneurs.That’s according to FitSmallBusiness.com, a digital business publication.Washington ranked No. 4 on the list after Texas (No. 1),Ohio (No. 2) and Minnesota (No. 3). FitSmallBusiness.com said the state is well positioned to be the next Silicon Valley, thanks to...
By Andy PerdueThis month,wine grape growers from across the state and throughout the Northwest descendedon the Tri-Cities for the Washington Winegrowers Association’s annualconvention and trade show Feb. 11-14.About 2,000members of the wine industry were expected at the Three Rivers ConventionCenter and Toyota Center to attend seminars, learn about the latest...
Road 100 branch to feature 7,000 square feet; $645,000 in improvements planned at headquartersGesa Credit Union will open its 18thbranch this summer in Pasco.Construction on the $2 million projectalready has begun on the two-acre plot of land at 4824 Broadmoor Blvd. Kennewick-based Banlin Construction isthe general contractor for the project....
