By Beau RuffShould a person giftthe farm before death to avoid the complexity of probate and the estate tax?Probably not. The family farmoccupies a unique position in Washington state estate taxation. It is arguablyone of the best assets to own at death for a wealthy family. It has the benefitof...
The state’s new two-year budget includes several milliondollars in projects for the Tri-City area, including two big Richland projects:a $27 million new academic building at Washington State University Tri-Citiesand a $15.2 million military readiness center in the Horn Rapids area.In north Richland, $7.7 million has been earmarked for aLaser Interferometer...
By Andy PerdueOne of the most important vineyards on Red Mountain has been sold.Artz Vineyard, planted in 1997, was bought this spring by Scott Williams, second-generation winemaker of Kiona Vineyards & Winery. Williams and his wife Vicky already own several top vineyards on the ridge that many winemakers consider the...
Richland will be home to the Tri-Cities’ third Planet Fitness gym this fall.The new fitness center will be at 1711 George WashingtonWay, Suite 399, in a storefront formerly occupied by Mid-Columbia Wine andSpirits, next door to Office Depot.The Washington Plaza development in north Richland isanchored by Safeway.Planet Fitness recently signed...
LambWeston is adding a potato storage building in Paterson to support its expandedoperations across the Columbia River in Oregon.Thenew building is under construction at 158695 Highway 221 in Paterson. It isvalued at $2.2 million and will have the capacity to hold 15,000 tons ofpotatoes.Atthe end of 2017, Lamb Weston announced...
In less than a year, Vista Field’s first shovel-readyparcels are expected to be available to developers.Plans to turn the former airport into a 103-acrepedestrian-focused urban center took a tangible step forward with aground-breaking ceremony in April.Around March 2020, the first shovel-ready parcels are expected to be made available through the...
The numbers aren’t all that far apart — from 505 Swift Blvd.to 625 Swift.And the physical move into Richland’s new City Hall from theold building amounts to several hundred feet across Jadwin Avenue.But after $18.4 million and 20 months of construction — plussome 14 years of planning and negotiations before...
The long-planned SSC North America supercar productionfacility destined for the Belmont Business District in West Richland is now atthe center of a $10.3 million dispute.A new $3.2 million commercial building — tenant to bedetermined — is going up at the property instead, and the high-performance carmanufacturing plant is moving to...
Bob and Tammy Benson have long wanted to run a batting cagebusiness in the Tri-City area.“We’ve always talked about having a facility,” Tammy said.“We’d look and talk about it. But we wouldn’t do it.”Then a friend showed them information about a D-BATfranchise a few years ago. The Bensons bought a...
Two construction projects totaling morethan $3.5 million are getting underway on the Kadlec medical campus in Richlandto meet patient demand for electrophysiology and gastroenterology services.One project involves adding a fifthcatheterization lab to the main hospital building at 888 Swift Blvd. This willresult in more resources for electrophysiology cardiology, known as...
