The city of Pasco has kicked off a planned multiphase renovation and expansion of its Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center to revitalize a space that has served residents for nearly 50 years.
Construction of a $175 million insulation manufacturing plant planned at Wallula Gap is on the horizon and the company behind it is seeing strong interest from contractors wanting to help build it.
Two current flights from Tri-Cities Airport have moved into larger aircraft and a future fourth daily route to Salt Lake City will offer more than 120 seats per flight.
The public power utilities that serve the Tri-Cities see BPA’s plan to move to a new energy market as a positive one that is more likely to lead to lower costs and provide for more certainty and planning of energy distribution.
Framatome plans to double the size of its Richland facility, building it on an agricultural field it owns adjacent to the campus, to produce the next generation of fuel arrays that will power nuclear reactors, a project estimated to cost $300 million to $400 million.