A Portland food manufacturer known for its potato salad is expanding in the Mid-Columbia with a new processing plant in Franklin County, just north of the Pasco city border.Reser’s Fine Foods broke ground on a 250,000-square-foot plant on North Capital Avenue, east of Highway 395, shortly after it closed a...

Community First Bank couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy a vacant bank property at the intersection of Swift Boulevard and Jadwin Avenue in Richland.It wasn’t looking to move but when its lease came due for renewal at 1060 Jadwin Ave., where it’s been located for 15 years, it made...

Numerica Credit Union recently bought property on busy Court Street in Pasco with plans open a new branch.The Spokane Valley-based credit union paid $940,000 in May for the 1,400-square-foot building at 2307 W. Court St. that serves as home to Baskin-Robbins.Numerica plans to demolish the ice cream shop and build...

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Washington’s largest winery by far, will join a corporate stable that includes consumer-focused brands such as Ann Taylor Loft, Torrid and Hot Topic under a $1.2 billion deal announced July 9.Altria Group Inc., parent to the Woodinville-based winery, said it had reached an agreement to sell...

The civil engineers and designers in the Kennewick office of J-U-B Engineers have lent their expertise to almost every aspect of the locally-built environment.They work on water and wastewater plants, roads and bridges, aviation projects, site development and plenty more.And now, for the first time since the Kennewick office opened...

Farmland Reserve Inc., a Utah-based nonprofit related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the winning bidder at a June 17 bankruptcy auction for the 22,500-acre collection of Benton County farms owned by Easterday Ranches Inc. and Easterday Farms.Easterday, a fourth-generation, family-owned agriculture giant based in Franklin...

Richland-based Fowler General Construction Inc. will build three projects at the Hanford site under a trio of new contracts worth a combined $19 million.Washington River Protection Solutions, which holds the tank operations contract at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, announced the new contracts on July 6.Two projects totaling...

A fast-growing Prosser winery is the latest addition to Vintner’s Village.WIT Cellars, formed in 2016 by three former Kestrel Vintners winemakers, bought the Gamache Vintners four-acre property at 505 Cabernet Court for $1 million in June.WIT owners Flint Nelson, Gina Adams and Cat Warwick were considering building their own winemaking...

Lumber prices may affect homeowners insuranceWashington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler warns that soaring lumber prices are not just bad news for homebuilders, do-it-yourselfers and others who need lumber. It’s bad for homeowners as well.The increase in construction costs could change the amount of insurance coverage needed for homes. More coverage...

Another Franklin County farm is being plowed under to meet Pasco’s growing appetite for industrial land.The Port of Pasco will establish a new industrial center off Highway 395 after closing a $4.4 million deal  to buy 55 acres from Cox Family Land LLC.The port will operate the property as Pasco...