Pasco grew by more than a third as 20,000 residents joined the city between 2010 and 2022.With a current population estimated at 80,180, Pasco is nipping at Kennewick (population 85,320) and is among the fastest-growing communities in the state, according to the Washington Office of Financial Management.Big growth brings big...
January 2023 and October 2024.Those are the dates to keep in mind as Pasco moves to build a $40 million, voter-approved aquatics center and possible community center.January 2023 is when a two-tenths of a percent sales tax kicks in to pay for the center. Pasco’s sales tax rate rises to...
A critical connection between Kennewick and Richland is being built after more than two decades of planning and litigation.Center Parkway is being extended across a Port of Benton-owned railroad track near Columbia Center mall. When the two sides connect, motorists will be able to drive from Gage Boulevard in Kennewick...
The Tri-Cities is ripe to transition its economy from one focused on cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site to one focused on clean energy.“This is the place. We’ve grown around this industry,” said Diahann Howard, executive director of the Port of Benton, which is part of the Washington Vertical coalition...
The Washington Military Department is eyeing Richland for a new campus for its Youth Challenge Academy, a military-style residential school for at-risk teens.There are 40 National Guard Youth Challenge Academies in the U.S., but only one in Washington, in Bremerton. The program serves young men and women who have dropped...
Reser’s Fine Foods is making mashed potatoes and preparing to add capacity to produce more dishes at its new food processing plant in Pasco.The family-owned company showed off its new $120 million plant at 5526 N. Capitol Ave. in September.The plant began operating earlier in the summer but shut down...
Joann, the sewing and crafts retailer, is moving its Kennewick store to Columbia Center mall, where it is taking over a portion of the space vacated by Sears in 2019.The new store is set to open in April, depending on construction being completed on time, said Joan Davis, Kennewick store...
Local Bounti Inc., the Montana-based ag tech startup, resumed construction of its $40 million greenhouse complex in east Pasco in September.The company paused the project in April, when it closed a deal to acquire the parent company of Pete’s, a California indoor grower.It disclosed plans to restart work in Pasco...
A pair of Richland business owners and former mayors is reviving the Richland Chamber of Commerce to restore the local connection between business and city hall.The Richland and the Kennewick chambers merged in 2005 to form the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, a move calculated to give the Mid-Columbia’s business...
The flyers were printed and posted online and anywhere prospective workers might be found.“Job Fair,” it read, against a red background matching the logo of Miramar Health Center, which was hosting the fair.Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, which operates the clinic near Kennewick’s Vista Field, was not coy about its...
