Ryan Companies US Inc. of Bellevue and Minneapolis is proceeding on development of two distribution centers for Amazon Inc. Both are more than 1 million square feet and will collectively employ about 1,500. Project Pearl, above, is at 1351 S. Road 40 East and has a construction value of $61...
The city of West Richland has completed its $12.3 million police station on a five-acre site at the former Tri-City Raceway, 7920 W. Van Giesen St.The new station includes a 20,500-square-foot main building and a 2,750-square-foot outbuilding,The main building features space for police administration, patrol, records, investigations, animal and code...
Speck Buick GMC of Tri-Cities has built a new automobile dealership at 9610 Sandifur Parkway in Pasco. The new facility is next to Camping World.J.P. and Katy Moore of the Speck Family Dealerships had the project built after Speck Buick GMC outgrew its location on West Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick.The...
Advanced Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics has completed a single-story, 7,431-square-foot medical and office space at 9720 Sandifur Parkway, Pasco, off Road 100.Dr. J. Kyle House of Professional Development Group LLC had the project built.The $2.2 million project is home for the clinic, a children’s dentistry and orthodontics practice and was...
Benton County has completed a three-story administration building at its Kennewick Justice Center campus, 7122 W. Okanogan Place.The $15 million project has 44,000 square feet and consolidates the county auditor, assessor, commissioners, treasurer and administration from offices in the justice center and at the Canal Street annex. The move frees...
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory dedicated its newest building, the Energy Sciences Center, at 3340 Horn Rapids Road, in October. Completion is expected over the coming winter.The 140,000-square-foot facility has space for 52 research laboratories, including flexible and collaborative spaces, conference rooms and offices for 250 PNNL staff, as well...
The late developer Robert “Bob” Young liked to give his apartment complexes dignified names.The Villas. Washington Square. Broadmoor. Jadwin Stevens. Highlands.Young, who lived in San Francisco but left a mark on the Tri-City landscape, died in 2014 at age 82.The company he founded, once known as Robert Young and Associates,...
“Corporation, n., an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”–Ambrose Bierce, the Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Regrettably, Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) were not included in Ambrose Bierce’s popular quote from 1910 because LLCs didn’t exist in most states until the 1990s.Still, the quote applies to LLCs in the same...
A group of Tri-City builders is turning its focus away from commercial development to focus on multifamily projects.It’s a strategy that appears to be a smart business move for Urban Range LLC.Four partners make up the LLC which brings together under one umbrella a group of experienced builders with businesses...
