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...
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...
