Central Washington Corn Processors is expanding its massive north Richland grain shed to better accommodate a key commodity used for livestock feed by the region’s dairies, feedlots and other operations – soy meal.The $4.3 million project will extend the CWCP “flat house” to 916 feet long, about a third longer...

A Tri-City nonprofit aims to turbocharge its efforts to end pet overpopulation after buying a former dental office in Pasco to serve as a spay and neuter clinic.Pet Overpopulation Prevention Tri-Cities, or POPP, paid $325,000 for the medical building at 1506 N. Road 40 in a deal that closed Aug....

Simon Property Group, parent of Kennewick’s Columbia Center mall, is partnering with a real estate firm that specializes in redeveloping tired shopping centers to buy the retail and other assets of J.C. Penney Co. out of bankruptcy.Simon and Brookfield Property Partners announced their intent to purchase the retailer’s assets in...

Serial restaurateur Michael Miller knows a good dining spot when he sees one.  Miller, founder of Stick+Stone Wood-Fired Pizza in Richland and Proof Gastropub in Kennewick, spied restaurant seats for sale outside the short-lived Dickey’s Barbecue Pit on Burden Boulevard in Pasco.  The 5,000-sqare-foot restaurant itself was idle. Dickey’s opened in 2018 and closed in 2019 with its two peers after franchisee Dan Pelfrey ran into financial difficulties. Miller bought some...

Two high-profile intersections on Duportail Street in south Richland are getting makeovers as the city prepares to open its new Yakima River span to through-traffic this fall.  Granite Construction Co. began a $1.3 million project to add turn lanes at the intersections with Queensgate Drive and Keene Road after winning the contract in July. Granite Construction, which is based in Watsonville, California, and specializes in infrastructure development, is using a vacant 11-acre site at Duportail and...

First Pasco, now Richland.Tri-City renters with a craving for waterfront living soon will be able to choose between apartments on either side of the Columbia River. Cedar and Sage Homes broke ground on Willow Pointe Apartments, a 126-unit “resort” style apartment complex at 250 Battelle Blvd. in north Richland in late...

By Joel BoucheyNo one enjoys restrictions on their lives or businesses. Just like no one likes to get sick.The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged us as individuals and communities in terms of what we find acceptable. And problems arise when the restrictions drag on for months and months, seeming with little public input...

A wave of retail bankruptcies is closing Tri-City stores or putting their futures in question. Here is a look at the chains that have filed for protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court this year and what that means for their local stores.Tuesday MorningTri-City location: 7411 W. Canal Drive, KennewickStatus:...

Work has begun on a new fire station at Kennewick’s Vista Field, one of two major fire station projects planned in the city.The $7 million project will move Kennewick’s Fire Station 3 to 6941 W. Grandridge Blvd., near the Three Rivers Convention campus and the former Vista municipal airfield. Kennewick...

The Kennewick School District expects to complete the $14.8 million second phase of Amistad Elementary in central Kennewick in August.The 20-classroom building at 123 S. Kent St. will serve students in kindergarten through second grade. It connects to a 22-classroom building serving students in the third to fifth grades, which...