A Portland company has run into two big snags in its plan to convert prominent Tri-City hotels into microapartments catering to working professionals, retirees and everyone in between.While Fortify Holdings LLC has closed several local purchases, its plans for the Riverfront Hotel in Richland and the Clover Island Inn in...
The Regional Home & Garden Show is returning in late February, with whatever safety measures are in place to prevent Covid-19 at the end of the month.The annual exhibition of all things home and garden is Feb. 25-27 at HAPO Center, 6600 Burden Blvd., Pasco.“We’re going to proceed with the...
The upside-down economics of the pandemic are driving the Tri-Cities into something of a quandary.Record job development coupled with a severely constrained supply of homes for sale means it will continue to be difficult to buy a home. But it isn’t impossible, and the situation isn’t a crisis, according to...
Providing legal counsel to criminal defendants and other low-income people facing court proceedings has always been a challenge in the Tri-Cities.Heavy caseloads, low pay relative to private practice, the lack of a local law school and now Covid-19 has not made it easier.But with 2022 now in full swing, the...
Tim ArntzenTim Arntzen, chief executive officer of the Port of Kennewick, is seeking $225,000 and to have performance reviews amended as a bitter dispute over a farmworkers clinic extends into its fourth year.Matthew Crotty, a Spokane attorney representing Arntzen, served the port with a notice of a tort claim on...
Benton Franklin Legal Aid Society, the nonprofit legal services agency that connects clients with volunteer attorneys, pivoted to helping area residents facing eviction in 2021. Barb Otte-PotterBarb Otte-Potter, executive director, said that prior to the pandemic, about 80% of its work centered on family issues. The pandemic, coupled with the...
W. Larry Jefferson Jr.Larry Jefferson Jr. will pay off his law school loans in about seven years.That would not be remarkable if Jefferson were a young attorney, just starting out. He’s not. He’s worked as a public defender in Seattle, and, more recently, Olympia, for more than 25 years since...
Sharp-eyed travelers with time to kill at the Tri-Cities Airport have always been bombarded with information about local sites.For 2021 and now early 2022, they’ve had a chance to review something a bit more substantial – the best examples of local architecture from Walla Walla to the Columbia River Gorge,...
The new year brought good and bad for Mid-Columbia Meals on Wheels and its parent, Senior Life Resources Northwest.It has a new office to handle growth at its Richland campus, but a lack of volunteers forced it to delay plans to resume daily meal deliveries to its homebound clients.Kristi Thien,...
A buying frenzy hit the Tri-City apartment market in the waning weeks of 2021.Driven by tax considerations and attracted by the strong economic recovery and low rental vacancy rates, investors closed deals for complexes large and small, new and old.Investors paid big prices and signaled their confidence that future rent...
