Goodwill Industries of the Columbia’s new 20,000-square-foot store opened for business on Aug. 30.Located at 345 S. Columbia Center Blvd., it’s between Fred’s Appliance and Flower Farm.The $4.2 million project, which included the land purchase and new building, features 10,000 square feet of retail floor space stocked with new items...
The Richland School District recently completed the multiyear renovation of the 1982 wing of the old Jefferson Elementary into an Early Learning Center.The project transformed the space to serve the district’s Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, or ECEAP, and developmental preschool.The center offers morning and afternoon sessions during the...
Padilla Masonry Inc. recently completed construction on a new commercial office and shop.The building at 550 E. Bruneau Ave. in Kennewick is just south of the East Columbia Drive and North Gum Street intersection near the cable bridge.The project included 6,392 square feet of office and shop space on the...
Kennewick’s new Goodwill store opened at 345 S. Columbia Center Blvd. on Aug. 30.This is the first Kennewick retail Goodwill store location to be built from the ground up. G2 Construction of Kennewick was the general contractor for the $3.1 million retail store and warehouse. Archibald & Co. Architects of...
Signs of new construction on the south side of Badger Mountain—includinga new service station and convenience store that will include a fast-foodchicken restaurant—signal more growth coming to the planned development that’sbeen years in the making.Badger Mountain South’s owner and developer Nor AmInvestments has an end-goal of building 5,000 household units,...
Packaging Corporation of America plans to hire 100 people, open in mid-NovemberConstructionis underway on a $26 million cardboard box manufacturing plant that eventuallywill employ 100 people in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park in Richland.PackagingCorporation of America, an Illinois-based company, expects to open the plant inmid-November.The city of Richland sold 42 acres...
A high-end craft bar will open in a newRichland Parkway building next year after crews made short of work ofdemolishing the space that’s languished unoccupied for years.The site at 702 The Parkway—which shares acourtyard with Frost Me Sweet, near the fountain—is almost ready forconstruction planned at the site, which will...
By Andrew KirkA woman from Hawaii recently bought a home in Tri-Cities with cash and outbid other buyers by $10,000. Realestate shoppers from Seattle, Portland, California and beyond are a growingtrend in Tri-Cities, said Dave Shinabarger, president of the Tri-CityAssociation of Realtors.LanceKenmore of the Kenmore Team in Kennewick said his...
California-based chain has stores in Pasco, KennewickAthird Grocery Outlet store is coming to the Tri-Cities, putting a “bargainmarket” in each of the three cities. The latest will be in the Queensgate areaof Richland, next door to Party City near Target.Richlandis reviewing a permit for the proposed project at 2901 Queensgate...
