As Small Business Saturday arrives on Nov. 29, Tri-City retailers are hoping residents will choose to shop close to home to keep jobs and tax dollars local and support locally-owned shops. Downtown Kennewick is offering incentives for shoppers, too.
Food trucks often grab the spotlight when it comes to mobile businesses. But two Tri-City entrepreneurs are proving that going mobile isn’t just for serving lunch – it’s a creative solution to keeping overhead low and staying close to customers.
The winners of this year’s Richland Rotary Entrepreneurial Awards included restaurants, a payroll services business, a helicopter companyand the owners of a mini golf course. The event’stop award went to a longtime entrepreneur who now oversees efforts to give other startups a leg up.
A Kennewick mother with a lifelong love of sewing has transformed her home-based sewing lessons for homeschooled kids into a full-fledged sewing school.
This quirky Richland shop has remained solvent for almost five decades, quite a feat when many local and national retailers struggle to keep up with rising costs and the challenges posed by online retailers. Next year it celebrates 50 years in business.
Washington’s grocery prices could grow more than 16% if President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs are allowed to continue, predicts a new state report released Thursday.