Susanne and Jessie Ayala had a plan.It just didn’t include opening Ciao Trattoria in downtown Pasco, which they did in October.The Ayalas intended to leverage their restaurant experience and the success of their Ciao Wagon food truck into a sit-down restaurant in east Pasco, at the Osprey Pointe Marketplace, which...
Kadlec kicks in $25K for Little Badger trail, $100K is still neededThe Kadlec Foundation donated $25,000 to Friends of Badger Mountain to support its effort to establish a new preserve and trail on Little Badger Mountain.The nonprofit is raising money to close on the purchase of land it needs to...
A former fire station in the heart of Benton City will be the new home of Pepper Preppers LLC, a hot sauce business, as well as a commercial kitchen available for lease to a limited number of food startups.Cheri and Bill Smoot, founders of Pepper Preppers LLC, have a $211,000...
Rosetta Assisted Living is completing its Pasco complex with its third and fourth buildings to serve residents with memory disorders.The Pasco facility, 5921 Road 60, has room for up to four identical buildings to care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Each building has 17 rooms...
Prompted by complaints about the blasts from trains rumbling through Pasco, the city is looking at what it would take to create a “railroad quiet zone.”The city council reviewed the state and federal requirements for quiet zones during a July workshop but has taken no further steps since then.Steve Worley,...
Blueline Equipment Inc., a Yakima-based ag and construction equipment dealer and manufacturer, is doubling down on its Pasco retail store.Owner Gregg Marrs is building an 11,000-square-foot showroom and office near the Tri-Cities Airport amid growing demand for its tractors, excavators, diggers and other heavy equipment used on farms as well...
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee helped dedicate a $90 million research facility at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus in Richland on Oct. 29.The event was held online but served as a celebration for a new center for scientific discovery in chemistry, materials science and...
BMB Investments completed a $2.4 million, 9,600-square-foot medical complex in September to house doctors’ offices, exam rooms and a lab.The project at 9613 Sandifur Parkway in Pasco is the new home to Tri-City Foot & Ankle Center and Alliance Women’s Healthcare.Elite Construction + Development was the general contractor.The design team...
The Richland School District completed a $5.5 million project to upgrade the athletic fields at Hanford High School in north Richland.The project at 450 Hanford St. included new artificial turf on the football field, with “Hanford” and “Falcons” painted in the end zones, a 2,000-seat grandstand with press box, a...
A $7.7 million visitor center that celebrates the groundbreaking science of Hanford LIGO – for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory – has wrapped up at the Hanford site north of Richland.The LIGO Hanford Exploration Center, or LExC, at 127124 N. Route 10 will host visitors and up to 10,000 students per...
