Covid-19 has taken a bite out of air travel at the Port of Pasco-operated Tri-Cities Airport, which hasn’t rebounded as hoped, just as the end of summer tends to “dry up” leisure travel, said Airport Director Buck Taft.“I don’t have the confidence to say anything for certain. It’s taking a...
Despite the pandemic, the Mid-Columbia’s school districts and schools – grades Kindergarten through 12, as well as higher education – plowed ahead to build, rebuild and remodel schools and support facilities.From a recently opened Kennewick High School, which cost over $100 million, to $30 million buildings at both Columbia Basin...
As the Tri-Cities negotiates its second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, cities and private developers alike continue to forge ahead with projects, bringing new services to the community.Despite state and federal level mandates limiting in-person business, tightened budgets and ballooning construction costs, Kennewick – the largest and most densely populated...
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...
The pace of progress is on the rise in Richland, where the city has issued nearly twice as many commercial building permits through July 2021 compared to the same time period last year.While the overall number of permits has increased, the value of the projects is coming in lower, said...
West Richland often is called the Tri-Cities’ bedroom community.Plenty more bedrooms were built in the past year and more are coming with the buildout of the Heights at Red Mountain Ranch.The west end of the city saw a boom of new home construction in 2021.In 2020, the city recorded a...
Benton County, home to nearly 209,300 people in 2021, is wrapping up construction of a new administration building at its justice center campus in Kennewick.The administration building is the largest undertaking by either Benton or Franklin county in 2021.Franklin County, with a population just 500 people shy of the 100,000...
It’s time for the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business’ deep dive into all things related to construction and real estate.Readers will find the 64-page Focus magazine inserted in this month’s edition of the paper. It is a strikingly different publication than issue we published in 2020, when coronavirus shutdowns were...
Tri-City real estate broker Charles Laird was vacationing in his native Scotland in March when national borders began to close because of the spreading threat of coronavirus.Laird and his family cut their trip short and headed home, a journey that included driving on Interstate 5 through pandemic-stricken Seattle.The chronically congested...
A pandemic, choking smoke and a polarizing national election did little to dampen demand for new and existing homes in the Tri-Cities as the calendar flipped toward the final quarter of 2020.More homes sold for higher prices. Unemployment increased, driven up in part because more people were seeking work.New home...
