A new extended-stay hotel is going up near Kohl’s, Mor Furniture and the Holiday Inn Express on Tapteal Drive in Richland.The $6.7 million project has a targeted opening of late 2018. The four-story WoodSpring Suites will feature 122 rooms and a fitness center.Construction financing is still being finalized and a...
Remodeling to begin in September, with Legacy High’s new building opening in 2019Kennewick’s alternative high school is getting a new home as the school district makes way for a new Kennewick High School about three years from now.Legacy High currently sits next to the Kennewick High School Annex on South...
More roundabouts are coming to the Tri-Cities.Construction begins next month on two Queensgate Drive traffic circles in Richland.Though delays, backups and detours will come with construction of the $3.9 million road project, the end result is expected to improve traffic flow in the congested south Richland area.It’s common for rush...
Yoke’s Fresh Market seeks to fill vacancy with another bank, credit unionGlobal Credit Union has closed its two Tri-City grocery store branches.Officials shuttered locations inside the Pasco and Kennewick Yoke’s Fresh Market stores on Jan. 31.Global Credit Union’s 1,600 Tri-City members may keep their accounts open and rely on mobile banking,...
Public plaza, space for food trucks to be completed this summerNow that wine is being made and poured at Kennewick’s waterfront wine village, the community can look forward to the next ribbon cutting, as the second phase is set to get underway this summer.A larger-than-expected crowd gathered for the Feb....
A group of Tri-City business leaders will travel this month to the state Capitol to promote a regional economic development agenda.The Tri-Cities Legislative Council will make its annual visit to Olympia on Jan. 25-26.The group is made up of members from all of the area chambers of commerce, including the...
Tri-City tax professionals are boning up on the new tax code as they prepare for the start of the 2017 tax filing season. Michelle L. BoddySigned into law just before the end of the year, the changes mark the first major reform of the tax code since the mid 1980s....
The Richland School Board will build its new Teaching, Learning, and Administration Center in West Richland and its 12th elementary south of Badger Mountain.The board made the decisions at the Jan. 9 school board meeting.The new $10 million Teaching, Learning, and Administration Center, or TLAC, would replace the aging 70-year-old...
An effort to bring a strip club to an industrial portion of Kennewick is on hold after the city denied a business license to City Stars Gentleman’s Club LLC.The city rejected the application because the club’s owners failed to complete required tenant improvements.One of the main improvements needed is a...
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 Seed is doubling its capacity to keep onions or potatoes in a climate-controlled environment. The $2.5 million project is underway at...
