The Richland Rue21 store at 2741 Queensgate Drive across the parking lot from Target near McDonald’s is scheduled to close June 25.The store is among 400 underperforming stores in the Pittsburgh-based company’s 1,179 store fleet. The closures aim to help the company streamline operations, better align the size of its...
The federal government recently reached a settlement agreement in a discrimination lawsuit with Washington Potato Company and Pasco Processing LLC, which operate a Pasco fruit and vegetable processing facility.The U.S. Justice Department filed the lawsuit against the companies on Nov. 14, 2016, alleging that from at least Nov. 1, 2013,...
A Pasco businessman was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for defrauding the government out of millions of dollars in tax credits.Scott Johnson, 43, of Pasco, was sentenced after having previously pled guilty on Nov. 24, 2015, to conspiracy to defraud the government and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.U.S....
Dave Mitcham has been in the restaurant business for 45 years.He says that’s enough.Mitcham and his wife, Darci, have put Cedars Restaurant on the market after owning it for 11 years.The asking price for their waterfront restaurant on Kennewick’s Clover Island Inn is $2.62 million.Rob Ellsworth and Scott Sautell of...
R.E. Powell, a distributor of fuels and lubricants, has expanded its presence in the Tri-Cities by buying a three-story office building in Richland.In late April 2017, the company bought a 46,800-square-foot building for $4.45 million at 1060 Jadwin Ave. The Grandview-based company had been leasing the building since fall 2016...
The restaurant known for its Blizzards and soft-serve ice cream treats is coming soon to Richland’s growing Duportail Street area.The owners of the local Dairy Queen franchise also plan to close their Columbia Center mall store at the end of the month as planning begins in earnest for the new...
About two years ago, Jennifer Mitchell, owner of Account Sense in Kennewick, met a fellow accountant and discussed with him the possibility of a future buy-out when he was ready to retire.That time has come with Account Sense recently buying Robert Vaughan, CPA of Kennewick.“When Bob (Vaughan) finally set a...
Beulah Green of Pasco didn’t fall for any of the scam calls she recently received.One scammer called from a Florida number claiming she missed jury duty and police would be coming to arrest her.Another said he was calling about her computer, but Green doesn’t own one.A third one said she...
The Washington Legislature stayed in a holding pattern in early June on two bills that will affect Mid-Columbia businesses.Behind-the-scenes negotiations continued on legislation to simplify digging for new wells and to install a paid family leave law. The talks are dragging along with the sluggish talks on resolving the state budget...
Juan Murillo said business was slow at American Wheel Specialist on a recent Wednesday.But within the span of five minutes, two men in an old Army truck pulled up to the front door of the plant at 1010 East Bruneau Ave. in Kennewick looking for help on a wheel for...
