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...
Richland remodeling company’s new offices will be complete by JulyA big, red barn will be the new headquarters of Gale-Rew Construction in Richland, providing a permanent home base for the home builder and remodeling company that completes hundreds of projects each year.Since merging Rew Construction with Gale Developments in 2008,...
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 underway at 6340 W. Rio Grande Ave. near North Kellogg Street in Kennewick, about a block south of the McDonald’s that...
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 at 1825 N. Commercial Ave. was previously owned by CRF Frozen Foods. An overhaul, expansion and new joint venture to operate...
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 doubled the company’s output of frozen spuds in Richland.“We’ve incorporated 45 years of making french fries into this factory,” said Mark...
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 in demand across the state.The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington, or CITC, is opening its first dedicated schooling site...
New machine can produce 400,000 tons a year of corrugated paper productsA $150 million investment at the Boise Paper plant in Wallula will replace one machine for another, nearly doubling the mill’s output.Port of Walla Walla Executive Director Patrick Reay described the change as transitioning from “white copy paper to...
Owner-brothers building Temple of ’Cue with capacity to smoke 3,000 pounds of meat at a timeA second Porter’s Real Barbecue restaurant set to open this spring in Kennewick is only the tri-tip of the meaty master plan.Brothers Porter and Reed Kinney have plans to launch two more restaurants within the...
Columbia Basin College will launch a hospitality training program in January to better prepare workers to join the ranks of more than 6,000 people who work in the growing industry in Benton and Franklin counties.The new program was created in direct response to the increased demand for skilled restaurant and...
