By Kris JohnsonWe hear about skyrocketing home prices in places like Seattle, San Francisco and New York and shake our heads. Modest three-bedroom ramblers going for $1 million or more. Hopeful homebuyers engaging in bidding wars, sometimes buying houses sight-unseen, or skipping inspections to ensure someone else doesn’t close the...
Three Rivers Elementary School is the Pasco SchoolDistrict’s 16th elementary school.The two-story school features 72,842 square feet of space at3901 Road 84 Pasco, north of Chiawana High School.It also is home to a new inclusive playground that willensure all students can engage in playground activities. It will be the firstinclusive...
The Richland School District’s newest elementary schooldoesn’t have a name yet, though it opens for students on Aug. 28.The school off Belmont Boulevard at 2100 Sunshine Ave. inWest Richland will temporarily house students and staff from Tapteal ElementarySchool this school year, and potentially Badger Mountain Elementary thefollowing school year, before...
Queensgate Storage and RV’s new addition gives the Richlandbusiness room to grow.It bought two adjacent acres from the Church of Nazarene anddoubled its footprint from two acres to four acres.Located at 2373 Jericho Road in Richland, Queensgate Storageand RV added sixteen 14-by-40-foot heated commercial buildings that also can berented as...
The Tri-City chapter of the International Brotherhood ofElectrical Workers has moved into a new building that nearly triples its space.IBEW Local 112 began moving at the end of July into the new$3.4 million union hall at 114 N. Edison St. in Kennewick, just south ofClearwater Avenue and east of Marineland...
The new 34,000-square-foot metal building, known as the FGBuilding, at the east end of Fowler Street wasn’t the original plan Greg andAmy Ford had in mind. The couple had been looking for a small piece of land tobuild a small metal warehouse for a shop and storage space. They wanted...
Kennewick School District’s first phase of the new AmistadElementary expansion project is a 43,500-square-foot building. The new addition features 22 classrooms, plus a gym andoffices, at 930 W. Fourth Ave., near the district’s Administration Center. Students in grades 3 to 5 will occupy the building whenschool starts Aug. 27. The...
Theremay be a chance for creditors to recover money owed to them by a prominentTri-City homebuilder who filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, citing $9.2million in debts. Thetrustee handling the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case for Marco Solferino recentlyfiled court paperwork stating “assets have been recovered by the trustee” andrequested creditors...
Anew powder-coating company capable of handling oversize materials has opened inPasco.GreatAmerican Powder Coating and Eco-Blasting recently opened a 6,000-square-footfacility that boasts an oven 25 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high at 1620E. Salt Lake St., Building A.Thenew business also offers an environmentally-safe, mobile eco-blasting system.Thislarge-scale operation is...
Alongtime Tri-City painting company is moving to Richland to build a new homebase for two businesses, Paintmaster Services Inc. and Columbia IndustrialCoatings. Thecompanies will share three buildings at 2670 First St. in north Richland, offKingsgate Way and north of Horn Rapids Golf Course.Thebuildings will include an office, shop and facility...
