Vatos Locos LLC has completed a $1.5 million commercial project with room to expand in north Richland.The project at 2670 First St. includes three buildings, one with office and shop, and other buildings for sandblasting and storage.Columbia Industrial Coatings and Paintmaster Services Inc. are leasing space. The site includes land for...
The founders of Richland’s Stick + Stone Neopolitan Wood-Fired Pizza have sold the business to the employee who has managed it almost from the start.Talon Yager bought the business from Mike Miller and his partners for $325,000 and signed a 10-year lease to keep the Italian-oriented restaurant in its spot...
Design company expects continued growth in 2020By Natasha Nellis | Spokane Journal of BusinessSpokane-based landscape architecture company Place Landscape Architecture LLC, which does business as Place LA, is expanding to the Tri-Cities with its recent merger with Sage Design Group PLLC of Kennewick, said Place LA owner Joshua Tripp. Tamra Lehuta,...
Yakima Federal Savings & Loan built a $2.2 million branch in Richland’s Queensgate area.The 4,025-square-foot building is the bank’s first new building in 18 years and will replace existing Richland office at Swift Boulevard and Jadwin Avenue when it formally opens for business with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m....
The Richland Taco Time opened in early February in a new 2,500-square-foot restaurant at 2222 Keene Road. Owner Greg Markel of Washington Securities & Investment Corp., who holds the area franchise rights for the fast-Mexican chain, opted for the move after concluding its old spot at George Washington Way and Swift...
Kennewick’s Roasters Coffee opened a drive-thru location on Center Parkway and Steptoe Street in Richland on Dec. 13. It is the 14th Tri-City location for the fast-growing local chain.The Center Parkway and Steptoe Roasters also boasts a walk-up order window and patio seating.The building was developed by Tim Bush and custom...
The Port of Kennewick completed the newest phase of Columbia Gardens Wine & Artisan Village, its wine-oriented economic development project in the shadow of the cable bridge, at the end of January.The new building at 313 E. Columbia Gardens Way is a 2,458-square-foot building with spaces for two tasting rooms.Gordon...
The Richland Dickey’s Barbecue Pit reopens this week but the future is uncertain for its still-closed sister restaurants in Kennewick and Pasco. Kenny Teasdale, a commercial real estate broker with NAI Tri-Cities and owner of a local moving company, reached a deal with the landlord and with Dickey’s Dallas, Texas-based parent company to take over the restaurant at 2530 Queensgate Drive. The arrangement doesn’t cover the closed Dickey’s locations...
Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington stands to lose a $2 million grant after the Pasco City Council voted 4-3 against selling the site it wanted for a 52-unit apartment-style complex to serve chronically homeless Tri-Citians. The Spokane-based nonprofit has asked the city to help it salvage its plan to build the $13.2 million...
Starbucks Co. and Habit Burger expect to join MOD Pizza in a new strip mall taking shape in front of JCPenney at Columbia Center in Kennewick.The 7,363-square-foot building is being built on land recently sold to a Yakima developer known for building strip malls and hotels.Hogback Development Co., led by...
