By Jennifer L. DreyA program linking foreign investors with cash-seeking U.S. developers has contributed millions of dollars of financing to Eastern Washington projects — including ones in Richland and Walla Walla — and created jobs throughout the state at venues including hotels, wineries and resorts.And for the investors, it has...
The rising price of building materials and other costs continues to drive up the price of new homes being built in the Tri-Cities, pushing sale prices up as much as 20 percent in some cases.“I’m building the same home right now that I finished on a different lot two years...
The growth at Goose Ridge Estate Vineyard & Winery is quickly apparent to drivers near the crossroads of interstates 82 and 182 because a large building rises alongside the current processing facility at the corporate headquarters on East Jacobs Road near Benton City.The scope of the growth is even more...
For years, there’s been talk of a year-round public market opening in Tri-Cities that might look like Pike Place Market in Seattle or Wenatchee’s Pybus Public Market.The vision is slowly beginning to take shape.The nonprofit Tri-Cities Public Market Coalition welcomed 61 prospective vendors to its recent vendors vision and information...
The Tri-Cities is poised to welcome its third plasma donation center when a new location opens across from the main Pasco Post Office on Court Street, alongside Goodwill, this fall.California-based GCAM Plasma already has an Eastern Washington clinic in Pullman.The $1.4 million Pasco office would be GCAM’s second in the...
Paper Street Brewing Co. is changing its scenery and its vibe, as Robby Burns, the founder of the five-year-old brewery, puts it.He decided to close the Richland alehouse at the end of July in favor of bringing the operation closer to home.A new brewhouse, which will be on...
Fans of Dovetail Joint Mobile Kitchen will rejoice when owners Matt and Maren McGowan open their new brick and mortar restaurant in Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center this fall.Serving a variety of made-from-scratch, locally-sourced food, the McGowans launched their food cart two years ago as a way of expanding into the...
Amon Creek Elementary is a new Kennewick school with 76,664 square feet of space for 38 classrooms, a gym, cafeteria, library, specialist spaces, flexible learning space, computer lab, two reading rooms and a playground.The school may have a Richland mailing address but it is in the Kennewick School District boundaries....
Tri-City Title and Escrow was to be the tenant of a new nine-office building in the Grandridge Business Park but it’s now home to First American Title Co., which finalized the purchase of the Tri-City Title and Escrow after construction had commenced at 8109 W. Grandridge Blvd. in Kennewick.First American...
Kennewick’s first dual language elementary school, Fuerza Elementary, is ready to open its doors to students on Aug. 28. The 66,338-square-foot school features 30 classrooms, a gym, cafeteria, library, offices, specialist spaces and playground.It’s built on the former site of Desert Hills Middle School and will be home to all of...
