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Plans underway for new apartments, subdivisions, roadwork
Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia. The State Environmental Policy Act, or SEPA, often provides the first look at the mixed-use projects, mini-storage facilities, apartments, industrial expansions, subdivisions and more that are working their way through the various planning departments of Benton, Franklin and Walla Walla counties.
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Kennewick cafe’s new home makes room for growth
The owners of a popular European-style cafe in the Southridge area of Kennewick are expanding to a bigger location a half mile away. Café Magnolia, currently located in the Cynergy Center at 4309 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, attracts visitors from Portland traveling on Highway 395, while regular customers drive from Spokane, Walla Walla, Sunnyside, Prosser and even Seattle to get their fill of coffee, pastries and lunch items.
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Church members build new home for growing congregation
In the farmland just outside Pasco’s city limits, a congregation came together on evenings and weekends over the course of two years to build a new church. The result is a 36,606-square-foot building with a sanctuary large enough for more than 1,000 people, classrooms, a commercial kitchen, dining space and something the congregation didn’t have before: its own cemetery.
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Our Town: Basin City, sealed with a kiss from Kiko!
BASIN CITY, Wash. - Just north of the Tri-Cities, Basin City is a small community with deep agricultural roots. The area was developed in the 1950s to support a growing farming industry, and orchards still help define its landscape today.
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LifePoint Health buys Trios Hospital for $7M
For the first time since it opened more than a decade ago, Trios Southridge Hospital is now owned by the entity operating it. And it’s a transaction that appears to be a bargain. LifePoint Health, the national healthcare provider that operates Kennewick’s Trios and Lourdes Health in Pasco, bought...
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Hubby’s Pizza marks 50 years by keeping tradition on the menu
For five decades, people have celebrated birthdays, youth sports and family dinners at Kennewick’s Hubby’s Pizza, where the only significant changes have been the prices and one brick wall – but more on that later. Promoted as “halfway between the bridges,” the restaurant at 346 W. Columbia...
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DNR to auction land near Richland Costco
The state Department of Natural Resources is auctioning off two lots of land near the new Costco in Richland in mid-November. The two properties are both undeveloped and located in the Queensgate area of Richland. Lot 7A is a 21-acre lot just north of Costco that’s zoned for high-density residential use, while Lot 6A is just over 12 acres in an L-shape to the west of Lot 7A that’s zoned for medium-density residential uses.
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This inmate champions workforce development behind bars
The first question Don Crews posed to an inmate he was helping prepare for life after prison stopped the man in his tracks. Crews had handed the man, who is incarcerated at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, a packet of documents designed to help him plan for his release. But imagining a future beyond prison wasn’t easy.
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Simon to buy prominent Seattle shopping center
The company that owns Columbia Center mall in Kennewick is about to expand its portfolio with another notable retail property in the state. Simon Property Group recently announced its intent to purchase the University Village shopping center in Seattle, according to Washington Retail. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed by Simon said it intends to close on the purchase by the end of 2026.