Fuse Fund is restarting its push to raise $2 million to invest in promising local companies after early pandemic shutdowns forced a slowdown.The fund is operated by Fuse Advisors, a subsidiary of Richland’s Fuse SPC. Fuse SPC, housed at Richland’s Parkway, is a special purpose company dedicated to providing space,...

Darcy KooikerSomething about watching her dad pour over figures at night appealed to Darcy Kooiker.The lined green paper. The mechanical pencil. The orderliness of tracking the plutonium going into weapons production at Hanford, which was her accountant father’s job.Kooiker, then Darcy Nelson, likes it when the math is correct.Her fellow...

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP)Director – State and Local Tax (SALT)Jenni RegimbalEmployees you oversee: N/A. I technically oversee employees all over the country given the nature of my work, but the number varies constantly.Brief background of your business:At CLA, we’re experienced in delivering integrated wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax and consulting services...

With the Tri-City housing market about as hot as it has ever been, why would an investor want to consider investing in the stock market?Let’s compare and contrast some of the common characteristics of investing, whether in real estate or the stock market, and see if the proposition of investing...

 Since Kennewick’s first indoor go-kart track opened, it has been a popular place for those who need to speed.The Kennewick track is the sixth DirtKart facility to open since Brycen Tarr and his family launched the first one in Spokane in September 2019, after years of having a dirt track...

Pilar “Angelica” Hernandez had already earned her cosmetology license and commercial driver’s license before realizing she had a hidden talent as a cake decorator.Now, the Pasco businesswoman owns Delicakes by Angelica, operating out of the Pasco Specialty Kitchen and providing elaborate cakes for weddings, birthdays, quinceañeras, baby showers and other...

A long-empty restaurant at the heart of Richland will reopen as Flight Tap and Table in January.The husband-and-wife team of Amanda Thavone and Joey Casados leased the building that briefly housed Dupus Boomer’s Downtown at 530 Swift Blvd., at George Washington Way.Thavone is a nurse at Kadlec Regional Medical Center,...

After standing vacant for three years, the former P.F. Chang’s China Bistro building in Kennewick will reopen with a new name, menu and owners.Hooked Seafood Boil and Bar, a new-to-the-area concept from Bing Wang and Vicky Lin, is set to open in early November in the former restaurant near Columbia...

Pasco is sweeping away some rules downtown business owners say keep them from investing and thriving in a five-block area.A coalition of downtown business owners, frustrated by prohibitions that keep restaurants from putting sandwich boards on sidewalks, selling used bikes and computers, or opening fitness centers, successfully lobbied the city...

The Richland School District bought an old church campus to serve as the second campus for its Three Rivers HomeLink program, an alternative education program that supports home-based learning and other student services.HomeLink will expand into the former Salvation Army worship center, 1219 Thayer Drive, as early as 2022.The Richland...