Trios Health, owned by LifePoint Health, debuted the $22 million Trios Birth Center on March 29 at Trios Southridge Hospital, 3810 Plaza Way, Kennewick.The 23,376-square-foot addition occupies two floors that connect to the hospital above the emergency room, on the second and third floors.It includes two dedicated rooms for cesarean...
St. Andrews Loop, LLC completed construction of Conover Center, a 22,000-square-foot Class A office building at 2713 N. 20th Ave. in Pasco on March 1.HUB Northwest is the first tenant and has completed its office buildout. The remaining space is in gray-shell condition and can be built to accommodate almost...
Bookwalter Winery is expanding its dining business in service of a lofty goal.Owner John Bookwalter wants to transform the Richland winery’s Fiction restaurant into a top-drawer establishment worthy of the industry’s highest honor. To do it, he’s opening a new restaurant in the former R.F. McDougall’s Irish Pub & Eatery...
A determined Tri-City entrepreneur has changed her business model and business name and signed a three-year lease in a new place to launch it. Nena Cosic of Pasco has operated European Desserts & Appetizers by Nena out of the Red Mountain Kitchen in downtown Kennewick for the past four years.It will...
The city of Kennewick has prevailed in its legal battle with Futurewise over the future of its efforts to expand its inventory of land available for, among other things, industrial development.Benton County approved the city’s new urban growth boundary, but Futurewise, a Seattle environmental nonprofit, succeeded in getting it overruled...
There have been plenty of efforts to bring a public market to the Tri-Cities. But after years of talk, an all-private effort with 70 vendors, including Ice Harbor Brewery and Columbia Industries’ Opportunity Kitchen, is about to open in Kennewick.The Public Market @ Columbia River Warehouse is set to debut...
First stop – Kennewick. Followed by the remainder of the Tri-Cities, every college town, and then the rest of America. Chris Corbin’s dream for his food truck pavilion has no bounds – and why should it?He’s already overcome a huge obstacle by cementing private financing for the $3.5 million development...
The owners of CG Public House are buying Uncle Sam’s Saloon, a popular 21-and-over sports pub with an Old West vibe near Columbia Center mall.Kyle Simmons, together with his sister, Stef Simmons, and parents, Steve and Shirley Simmons, expect to close on the two-part deal March 28. Terms were not...
Trampolines, arcades, laser tag and maze, golf simulators and more plannedA group of five families with plans to create a string of all-ages entertainment centers is starting in Kennewick, where it is about to break ground on Quake, The EpiCenter of Family Fun, near Cottonwood Elementary School.Quake is the group...
Tim Bush, a prominent Tri-Cities developer, is shifting gears again but not too far away from cars.Bush, president of Bush Development, began in the car business and shifted into the car wash business. With the sale of the former Bush Car Washes to Arizona-based Mister Car Wash in 2020, he’s...
