Goodwill Industries of the Columbia completed a 1,200-square-foot attended donation station at 3250 Kennedy Road in West Richland, near Mister Car Wash, Budget Blinds and Roasters Coffee.The $780,000 project includes storage space, a breakroom and a restroom. There is a covered station where customers can bring donations and a loading...

The Kennewick School District wrapped up a project to add 30,000 square feet of new classroom space and enhance athletic facilities at Southridge High School, 3520 Southridge Blvd., in August.The addition added 12 classrooms for science and special education and a 3,200-square-foot weight training facility. 3520 Southridge Blvd., KennewickThe $25...

The Pasco School District has completed the main phase of its $39 million project to replace the original Stevens Middle School, constructed in 1961.The new building at 1120 N. 22nd Ave. is a 106,478-square-foot school on 24.5 acres in central Pasco.The school features a two-story classroom wing with 41 classrooms...

A Portland food manufacturer known for its potato salad is expanding in the Mid-Columbia with a new processing plant in Franklin County, just north of the Pasco city border.Reser’s Fine Foods broke ground on a 250,000-square-foot plant on North Capital Avenue, east of Highway 395, shortly after it closed a...

Community First Bank couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy a vacant bank property at the intersection of Swift Boulevard and Jadwin Avenue in Richland.It wasn’t looking to move but when its lease came due for renewal at 1060 Jadwin Ave., where it’s been located for 15 years, it made...

Numerica Credit Union recently bought property on busy Court Street in Pasco with plans open a new branch.The Spokane Valley-based credit union paid $940,000 in May for the 1,400-square-foot building at 2307 W. Court St. that serves as home to Baskin-Robbins.Numerica plans to demolish the ice cream shop and build...

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Washington’s largest winery by far, will join a corporate stable that includes consumer-focused brands such as Ann Taylor Loft, Torrid and Hot Topic under a $1.2 billion deal announced July 9.Altria Group Inc., parent to the Woodinville-based winery, said it had reached an agreement to sell...

The civil engineers and designers in the Kennewick office of J-U-B Engineers have lent their expertise to almost every aspect of the locally-built environment.They work on water and wastewater plants, roads and bridges, aviation projects, site development and plenty more.And now, for the first time since the Kennewick office opened...

Farmland Reserve Inc., a Utah-based nonprofit related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the winning bidder at a June 17 bankruptcy auction for the 22,500-acre collection of Benton County farms owned by Easterday Ranches Inc. and Easterday Farms.Easterday, a fourth-generation, family-owned agriculture giant based in Franklin...

Richland-based Fowler General Construction Inc. will build three projects at the Hanford site under a trio of new contracts worth a combined $19 million.Washington River Protection Solutions, which holds the tank operations contract at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, announced the new contracts on July 6.Two projects totaling...