Prompted by complaints about the blasts from trains rumbling through Pasco, the city is looking at what it would take to create a “railroad quiet zone.”The city council reviewed the state and federal requirements for quiet zones during a July workshop but has taken no further steps since then.Steve Worley,...

Blueline Equipment Inc., a Yakima-based ag and construction equipment dealer and manufacturer, is doubling down on its Pasco retail store.Owner Gregg Marrs is building an 11,000-square-foot showroom and office near the Tri-Cities Airport amid growing demand for its tractors, excavators, diggers and other heavy equipment used on farms as well...

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee helped dedicate a $90 million research facility at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus in Richland on Oct. 29.The event was held online but served as a celebration for a new center for scientific discovery in chemistry, materials science and...

BMB Investments completed a $2.4 million, 9,600-square-foot medical complex in September to house doctors’ offices, exam rooms and a lab.The project at 9613 Sandifur Parkway in Pasco is the new home to Tri-City Foot & Ankle Center and Alliance Women’s Healthcare.Elite Construction + Development was the general contractor.The design team...

The Richland School District completed a $5.5 million project to upgrade the athletic fields at Hanford High School in north Richland.The project at 450 Hanford St. included new artificial turf on the football field, with “Hanford” and “Falcons” painted in the end zones, a 2,000-seat grandstand with press box, a...

A $7.7 million visitor center that celebrates the groundbreaking science of Hanford LIGO – for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory – has wrapped up at the Hanford site north of Richland.The LIGO Hanford Exploration Center, or LExC, at 127124 N. Route 10 will host visitors and up to 10,000 students per...

Richland Fire and Emergency Services completed its 10,350-square-foot Fire Station 73 in late October.The new station on Jadwin Avenue is a twin to Fire Station 75, which opened in September on Battelle Boulevard in north Richland.The station at 2120 Jadwin Ave. includes living quarters for up to four firefighters, administrative...

ST Properties of Kalama, Washington, completed construction of a 16,500-square-foot, single-story metal building to house Convoy Supply Ltd. at 1865 N. Commercial Ave. in Pasco.The project, which is east of the Tri-Cities Airport, wrapped up in October.CRF Metal Works was the general contractor.

Amazon Inc. confirmed Sept. 16 that it will open two distribution centers, each more than 1 million square feet, on South Road 40 East, north of Sacajawea State Park in Pasco.The Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business first reported the news of the massive projects in its August edition. At the...

Chaplaincy Health Care is delaying construction of a 10-bed hospice house at the Richland Wye after construction estimates rose 30% past the $5 million price tag.The nonprofit intended to begin construction on a replacement for Chaplaincy Hospice House this fall at 1336 Spaulding Ave., near its Fowler Street administrative office.Instead,...