Kennewick, at 85,320 residents strong, continues to expand, develop and reinvent.“If you drive around our city, you can really see that we have progress and projects happening across all areas of Kennewick and there’s synergy. I think that’s important,” said Evelyn Lusignan, the city's director of public relations and government...

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...

An ongoing effort to market and prime the Horn Rapids area of Richland is paying off as nonstop growth continues at the northern end of the city.Richland is rewriting its master plan to support ongoing residential development while mapping out future commercial and retail projects in Horn Rapids.“It would further...

West Richland continues to grow west.The city of 17,410 residents has added 5,600 people in the past 12 years and more homes are coming.In 2021, the city issued 205 permits for single-family homes, more than in the combined three years prior.There are 4,200 new homes in the pipeline in 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...

Despite a global pandemic leading to rising construction costs and difficulty obtaining materials throughout the U.S., the Port of Benton has tried to make good use of 2021, focusing on its infrastructure to attract new business to the Mid-Columbia.Diahann Howard, executive director, said tourism is a big driver of its...

Almost a decade after closing Vista Field, the Port of Kennewick is poised to start selling land and to welcome new construction after challenges and delays brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.“Everything has to be talked about against the backdrop of where we’re still at in 2021,” said Tim Arntzen,...

The Port of Pasco is set to become the home base for the largest milk protein facility in North America – employing hundreds of people with well-paying jobs at a new Darigold facility that will anchor the Reimann Industrial Center.Darigold Inc. expects the project to employ more than 1,000. Those...