CarMax Inc., the national chain of used car stores, confirmed it intends to open its first Tri-City location within two to three years.CarMax, based in Richmond, Virginia, operates five stores in Washington, all located in Spokane and Western Washington. Richland will be the first in the area.“We are pleased to...
By Michael Samson Yakima Valley Business TimesMcCurley Integrity Dealerships of the Tri-Cities recently bought the Stewart Subaru dealership in Yakima.Now known as McCurley Subaru of Yakima, the business at 506 Fruitvale Blvd. is the company’s sixth dealership in the state.“One of the reasons why we wanted to come over here...
Katy and J.P. Moore are building a new home for their newly acquired Tri-Cities Buick and GMC dealership, which has outgrown its Kennewick quarters.“We’re bursting at the seams,” said Katie Forney, operations manager for Speck Dealerships, the family of car and truck dealers owned by the Moores.Speck GMC and Buick...
By Andrew KirkKennewick entrepreneurReid Lunde named his company Kaizen Speed after the Japanese business term forcontinuous improvement. Since 2005, Kaizen Speed has been steadily growing, andin November won a prestigious industry award for Lunde’s new prototype. Fifteen years ago,Lunde was attending Columbia Basin College and started Kaizen Speed in borrowedspace...
By Andrew KirkWith a nuclear reservation, national laboratory and cutting-edge agricultural processing in the Tri-Cities’ backyard, Jeff Leskovar expected Mitsubishi’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle Outlander would be well received.“We thought they’d bepopular with Hanford scientists, a high-tech product like this,” he said. “Butwe sell a lot of them to Spokane.”Almost...
By Kevin AnthonyThe message is simple. Clean, you might say.While cleaning up one of the biggest environmental messes inthe United States, it’s best to leave as small a footprint as possible.It’s an attitude that Mission Support Alliance stresses in its role as a key contractor at the Hanford nuclear reservation....
Desert Buick GMC has been renamed to include Speck brandThe owners of C. Speck Motors Inc.have bought another established car dealership in the region, bringing theirtotal number of dealerships to five. The sale of Desert Buick GMC at 2910W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick resulted in an immediate rebranding to SpeckBuick...
Pasco celebrated the installation of a solar-powered electric vehicle charging station at the Court Street Starbucks on Aug. 29The fast-charging station at 2411 W. Court St. is part of a $1 million, nine-station network along Washington state highway corridors designed to enhance interstate and intrastate electric vehicle travel.“Project partners strategically...
Energy officials celebrated the installation of the first electric vehicle DC fast charging station -- one of nine to be installed by 2019 -- during a May 15 ribbon-cutting event at the Southridge Sport Complex in Kennewick.The station has a level 2 charging station as well as a DC fast...
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to fix Karen Miller's title.Tri-City interests are looking at the possibility of installing charging stations for electric vehicles in the Mid-Columbia.Right now, that possibility is in the initial brainstorming stage.The Franklin County and Benton County public utility districts, Energy Northwest and other local...
