Junus KhanCarbitex Inc., the Kennewick tech manufacturer that turns carbon fabric into flexible carbon composites, had a choice to make when it debuted in 2012.Its patented, flexible-yet-rigid composite material could be used in any number of products. Junus Khan, founder and chairman, had to figure out which one to target.Four...
The late developer Robert “Bob” Young liked to give his apartment complexes dignified names.The Villas. Washington Square. Broadmoor. Jadwin Stevens. Highlands.Young, who lived in San Francisco but left a mark on the Tri-City landscape, died in 2014 at age 82.The company he founded, once known as Robert Young and Associates,...
Judge Dan Kathren expected miracles in 2019, when Benton County launched a special court to help veterans charged with crimes turn their lives around.Forty veterans and 20 graduates later, he has not been disappointed.“It’s absolutely doing what we were hoping it would,” said Kathren, a seasoned Benton County District Court...
A profitable Kennewick technology business is being closed by its parent as part of a global reorganization blamed on the pandemic.Bruker Inc. is merging Bruker’s Nano Handheld-Mobile Portable XRF unit, which employs about 50, with a sister company in Berlin and closing the office at the end of December. It...
Tim Arntzen, longtime CEO of the Port of Kennewick, narrowly survived a job challenge during a stormy performance review by the port’s divided commission.The performance review was conducted in public session during the commission’s Nov. 9 meeting, held virtually because of the pandemic. The commission voted 2-1 to accept the...
Scott Keller, the Port of Benton’s retired executive director, is seeking appointment to the seat vacated by Commissioner Bob Larson, who retired on Oct. 28, four years into a six-year term.The port’s remaining two commissioners, Roy Keck and Jane Hagarty, intend to appoint Larson’s replacement on Nov. 29. Keller is...
Susanne and Jessie Ayala had a plan.It just didn’t include opening Ciao Trattoria in downtown Pasco, which they did in October.The Ayalas intended to leverage their restaurant experience and the success of their Ciao Wagon food truck into a sit-down restaurant in east Pasco, at the Osprey Pointe Marketplace, which...
A former fire station in the heart of Benton City will be the new home of Pepper Preppers LLC, a hot sauce business, as well as a commercial kitchen available for lease to a limited number of food startups.Cheri and Bill Smoot, founders of Pepper Preppers LLC, have a $211,000...
Rosetta Assisted Living is completing its Pasco complex with its third and fourth buildings to serve residents with memory disorders.The Pasco facility, 5921 Road 60, has room for up to four identical buildings to care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Each building has 17 rooms...
Prompted by complaints about the blasts from trains rumbling through Pasco, the city is looking at what it would take to create a “railroad quiet zone.”The city council reviewed the state and federal requirements for quiet zones during a July workshop but has taken no further steps since then.Steve Worley,...
