Blueline Equipment Inc., a Yakima-based ag and construction equipment dealer and manufacturer, is doubling down on its Pasco retail store.Owner Gregg Marrs is building an 11,000-square-foot showroom and office near the Tri-Cities Airport amid growing demand for its tractors, excavators, diggers and other heavy equipment used on farms as well...
The Arts Center Task Force is restarting its efforts to build an 800-seat performing arts center in Richland under a new executive director.Phinney Brown, whose background includes working in the wine industry and for numerous nonprofits, took the helm at the nonprofit in July.She previously led marketing efforts for the...
History will remember the early 2020s for the devastating coronavirus pandemic, the shutdowns, the economic chaos.It would be easy to assign the booming construction scene of 2021 to a Covid-19 recovery.The bounce back may be real, but population and job growth are the real drivers of the diverse array of...
Homebuilders face familiar headwinds in 2021 – finding enough places to build new homes, hiring enough workers to build them and sourcing enough building materials to build with.Add in Washington’s new energy code, which took effect this year, and it’s a challenging time to be a residential developer. But the...
Private investors are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Tri-City commercial construction in a shift from recent years, when school construction and public projects, such as Richland’s Duportail Street bridge and fire stations, dominated the sector.Fueled by low interest rates and a backlog of projects booked in the busy...
Amazon Inc. confirmed Sept. 16 that it will open two distribution centers, each more than 1 million square feet, on South Road 40 East, north of Sacajawea State Park in Pasco.The Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business first reported the news of the massive projects in its August edition. At the...
Pasco will begin construction on a new home for the Tri-Cities Animal Control building by spring 2022.So says David Zabell, Pasco city manager.The animal control facility is by no means the largest or most complicated undertaking on the city’s $150 million capital projects list for the coming year. Water and...
WSU Tri-Cities is setting up camp in Prosser.The school has agreed to lease the closed Walter Clore Wine & Culinary Center from the Port of Benton for $25,000 a year. It will use it for wine and culinary education.The port originally built the 15,000-square-foot facility in 2014 to showcase the...
Chaplaincy Health Care is delaying construction of a 10-bed hospice house at the Richland Wye after construction estimates rose 30% past the $5 million price tag.The nonprofit intended to begin construction on a replacement for Chaplaincy Hospice House this fall at 1336 Spaulding Ave., near its Fowler Street administrative office.Instead,...
Farmers Exchange, the iconic purveyor of lawnmowers, chainsaws, trimmers, animal feed and garden supplies, has passed to a new generation.Christopher Ingersoll, great grandson of one of the original owners of the Kennewick business, bought it from his uncle, Keith Silliman, in a deal that closed Oct. 1.Silliman said he was...
