
Articles by Robin Wojtanik

Franklin County farm adding $2.5 million warehouse
Onions piled as long as a football field fill a Franklin County agriculture warehouse, and now two more warehouses are under construction to store the same amount of crops. Premier…

Gale-Rew Construction building big red barn for new headquarters
Richland remodeling company’s new offices will be complete by July A big, red barn will be the new headquarters of Gale-Rew Construction in Richland, providing a permanent home base for…

A new house for the mouse: Chuck E. Cheese to open in Kennewick
A new design for Chuck E. Cheese’s will roll out in the Tri-Cities next fall when the Richland restaurant reopens in a new location and a new city. Construction is…

Food plant linked to listeria to reopen under new name
A former Pasco vegetable processing plant will reopen in spring under new ownership and a new name following a shutdown after a listeria outbreak last year. The food processing facility…

Lamb Weston doubles fry production with Richland plant expansion
Lamb Weston’s expansion of its Richland potato processing plant adds two million more pounds of frozen french fries daily to the worldwide market. The new $200 million addition has nearly…

Vocational trade school to open in Pasco
A new trade school in west Pasco will provide classroom and laboratory space for apprentices pursuing careers in skilled trades, including future electricians, plumbers and sheet metal workers, all jobs…

Wallula’s Boise Paper mill plans $150 million in improvements
New machine can produce 400,000 tons a year of corrugated paper products A $150 million investment at the Boise Paper plant in Wallula will replace one machine for another, nearly…

Porter’s Real Barbecue plans to open Columbia Center Boulevard restaurant
Owner-brothers building Temple of ’Cue with capacity to smoke 3,000 pounds of meat at a time A second Porter’s Real Barbecue restaurant set to open this spring in Kennewick is…