The new pickleball complex features 10 courts with LED lighting, spectator seating and a championship court. Officials say it also will have the only fully accessible wheelchair courts in the Pacific Northwest.
Transportation projects for roundabouts, road widening, pedestrian safety and everything in between will benefit from $20.3 million in grants awarded by the Benton-Franklin Council of Governments.
State Rep. Mark Klicker, R-Walla Walla, authored House Bill 1108 that sought to unearth “the primary cost drivers for homeownership and rental housing” in Washington. It had 25 co-sponsors – 14 Republicans and 11 Democrats – and cleared the Legislature with only nine people voting against it. The governor vetoed it quietly in his office on May 20, the final day on which he could act on legislation.
Fewer Tri-City homes were sold in April than in the previous month, even as the typically busy home-selling season gets underway, according to the latest data from the Tri-City Association of Realtors.
The first group of apartments and amenities of a new 162-unit complex of apartment homes and townhomes at 5651 W. 36th Place, Kennewick, will be open to future residents in June.
