Food trucks often grab the spotlight when it comes to mobile businesses. But two Tri-City entrepreneurs are proving that going mobile isn’t just for serving lunch – it’s a creative solution to keeping overhead low and staying close to customers.
A Swiss company plans to invest half a million dollars to develop a Richland data center despite having $157.3 million in federal funding slashed for its zero-carbon nitrate fertilizer plant north of the city. Securing the power to power up both projects also continues to be a challenge.
The developer of a large wind and solar farm energy project between Benton City and Prosser will not be able to build the facility to the capacity initially planned after state officials determined construction needed to be set back from some nesting sites of endangered hawks.
A Kennewick-based nonprofit is divesting some of its for-profit businesses to better concentrate resources on its mission of breaking down barriers to help empower individuals.
In the last two years, a number of local and out-of-state entrepreneurs have made plans to build indoor pickleball facilities in the region. This Tri-City entrepreneur is the first to do it.
This Kennewick bingo hall is a place for connections, where friends and family share laughs while vying for a win. It’s also a place that supports a longtime nonprofit’s mission to make the Tri-Cities a better place.
The Academy of Children’s Theatre hopes word of the revamped theater and seating, with improved sight lines and more accessibility for theater goers with limited mobility, will lead people who’ve never seen an ACT production to check out a show.
A now-closed Richland floral shop that was a flashpoint in a discrimination lawsuit for a previous owner’s refusal to provide flowers to a gay couple recently declared bankruptcy and counts its former owner among its creditors.
