The Osprey Pointe development near the river in Pasco is set to get two higher-end hotels.

James and Meredith Sexton of JMS Construction Inc. recently signed franchise agreements for a Wyndham and a Wyndham Garden. They’ll build the Wyndham first, followed by the Wyndham Garden.

“In the spring we’ll start...

The Islamic Center of Tri-Cities is adding a building to its home on Bombing Range Road in West Richland. And the new facility will serve the entire community, the center’s president said.

The nearly 10,000-square-foot building will include a large multipurpose room, totaling about 6,300 square feet. It’ll also...

Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia.

The State Environmental Policy 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...

A new 7,000-square-foot retail center is taking shape along Duportail Street in Richland, and it may be home to the second Tri-Cities location of a popular restaurant.

Gretl Crawford Homes is constructing the building in the city’s busy Duportail retail and restaurant corridor, home to Target, Walmart, Gold’s Gym,...

Ryan Hatch got his first taste of coffee as a boy on his grandparents’ ranch.

“They had these little blue camper mugs, from maybe the 1950s. They’d drink their morning coffee out of them. I’d go around after everything was all cold and drink (what was left),” Hatch said.

Now...

A growing organic and natural foods chain has opened its new grocery store in Kennewick after a two-month delay.

Natural Grocers remodeled the 15,597-square-foot building at 751 N. Columbia Center Blvd. It used to be home to Joann Fabric and Craft, which now is at Columbia Center mall.

Construction delays...

Pasco’s downtown revitalization efforts are set to be showcased at a statewide conference. 

Jacob Gonzalez, the city’s director of community and economic development, will lead a presentation with Framework Consulting during the Washington American Planning Association conference on Oct. 11-13 in Spokane. The session will...

A Richland thrift shop that provided an outlet for grieving families to donate their loved ones’ items and a place where shoppers could feel good about supporting a cause will close its doors next month. 

Repeat Boutique, a thrift store operated by Tri-Cities Chaplaincy, shutters its...

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By Robin Wojtanik
for Hanford Mission Integration Solutions 

Drivers with top-secret clearance recently hauled classified documents cross-country from Hanford to Washington, D.C. 

A tamper-indicating bolt and high-security lock secured their load: carefully packaged records documenting Hanford’s role in the Manhattan Project.

The destination?

The former Roasters coffee shops in the Tri-Cities have changed hands twice in a little more than two years — going first to the Black Rock Coffee Bar chain and then to Wake Up Call Coffee.

Customers may only have noticed the changing signs and menus, but a complicated,...