McDonald’s and its franchisees recently announced plans to invest about $126 million in Washington state throughout 2018-19 on the construction and modernization of more than 170 restaurants.Twenty-two restaurants in Benton and Franklin counties have been included in the work.The improvements are aimed at transforming the customer experience inside and outside...
Spacious, state-of-the-art self-storage facilities are now available to rent on the south side of Pasco’s Road 68 exit off Interstate 182.The 90,000-square-foot Self-Storage at Chapel Hill includes 599 storage units totaling 80,000 square feet of available storage unit space and 10,000 square feet for retail.Unit sizes range from four-by-eight feet...
The Richland Chuck E. Cheese restaurant is re-opening in Kennewick.A soft opening for the 14,458-square-foot restaurant is scheduled for Sept. 15. A grand opening is set for Oct. 1.The new food and entertainment destination beloved by children of all ages is at 6340 W. Rio Grande Ave., about a block...
Incyte Diagnostics, an anatomic pathology laboratory, recently completed more than $1.5 million in improvements to a 7,608-square-foot office at 221 Wellsian Way in Richland.The project was designed to merge four of Incyte’s offices under one roof. The Pendleton, Walla Walla, Yakima and Kadlec histology offices are now all housed in...
The first public auto auction facility of its type in the Tri-Cities — Trucks & Auto Auctions — is now open at 3135 Rickenbacker Drive, off the Argent Road exit by Columbia Basin College and Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco.Its inaugural auction was Aug. 28.Auctions will be held on the second...
O’Brien Construction Co. completed two new warehouses this summer in the heart of the Vista Field Industrial Park at 6416 W. Hood Place in Kennewick.At 40,000 square feet and 38,500 square feet, the warehouses comprise the third phase of a warehousing project that Tom O’Brien of O’Brien Construction has been...
A former vacant lot at the intersection of Keene and Kennedy roads in West Richland is being transformed into a bustling corner for businesses.The development across the street from the new Roasters Coffee will become the new home of Budget Blinds (3310 Kennedy Road), Affordable RV Repair (3320 Kennedy Road),...
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...
