For years, Mindi Irvine had the idea of offering a video-type health care service as part of the Oasis Physical Therapy daily routine.But it just never happened, thanks to the busy, day-to-day operations of her five clinics in the Tri-Cities and, most recently, in Walla Walla.“We’d been talking about this...
When your company has been in business for 76 years, you’ve been doing something right.You can expand and thrive during the best of economic times, and you adapt and become more flexible during the rough times.With the coronavirus pandemic hindering almost all business, U.S. Linen and Uniform in Richland is...
It’s tough having a small business that’s been forced to shut down in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and state orders to stay home.It may be even more difficult when a new business was just about to open for the first time.It’s like being between a rock and a...
Richland’s Denise Thai always wanted to have her own bakery, but life got in the way while raising three children.Now decades later, the children are grown with lives of their own, and the grandchildren are busy teenagers.Thai, 58, decided a few years ago that maybe there are second chances in...
Their line of wearables tries to raise awareness, promote thoughtfulness toward people with special needsThe button idea really was a simple one.Yet it took a Tri-City couple, Michael and Linde Thomas, more than 20 years to turn it into reality.The Thomases recently created a foundation called Kindhearted for Special Needs.They...
Owner of Richland practice says move could mean future expansion Owner Matt Lucas was running out of room for his massage therapists at Chiropractic Care of Tri-Cities in Richland.His business’ neighbor, Mark Whitten, also was struggling with a problem. He ran Riverside Therapeutic Massage, but wanted to spend more time...
Roof Maxx’s award-winningtechnology can extend the life of roofsJeremy Dimond and Pete Kelley once worked together as wine salesmen.But they always wanted to own their own business.It happened this year when they launched Roof Maxx.Kelley was scrolling through Facebook one day when he learned about the Roof Maxx story.It looked...
Construction begins on the Richland winery’s addition in February, with completion set for summer’s endFor nearly 10 years, John Bookwalter dreamed of expanding his winery andrestaurant.The dream begins taking shape in February, when J. Bookwalter Winerybreaks ground on a $4 million expansion that will more than triple the size ofits...
It took almost eight years and a lot of on-again, off-again negotiations with different prospective buyers, but the Tri-City Herald building in downtown Kennewick has new owners.Pasco investors Mike Detrick Sr., his son Mike Detrick Jr. and their wives bought the building at 333 W. Canal Drive for $3.9 million...
Professional Investment Management Services celebrates 20 years in business in 2020A Kennewick independent boutique investment advisory firm is closing in on 20 years of business next year.That’s the case for Professional Investment Management Services, or PIMS for short, at 7103 W. Clearwater Ave., Suite B, upstairs in the new Copiers...
