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City of Kennewick 2nd Best City for New Jobs!

The City of Kennewick is ranked as the 2nd Best City for New Jobs in Spring of 2009 as reported by Forbes.com. WOW! Way to go Tri-City business owners!  Clearly each of you has made an impact on a national … Continue reading

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University of Phoenix opens satellite learning center in Kennewick

The Eastern Washington campus of the University of Phoenix recently opened a new satellite learning center in the Tri-Cities. The new resource learning center will offer extra support for the growing number of Tri-City students enrolled in the online school, … Continue reading

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Stimulus: Cities, counties ready to take on any population surprises

City and county officials don’t have all the answers they would like about how many people will come to the Tri-Cities over the next two years as federal stimulus money accelerates Hanford cleanup. Estimates are that the nearly $2 billion … Continue reading

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Three Rivers facilities provide entertainment options

The Three Rivers Campus is the Entertainment District of the Tri-Cities. The Three Rivers Convention Center, Toyota Center and Toyota Arena all are public buildings that continue to focus on bringing conventions, meetings, sports, concerts, family shows, Broadway shows and … Continue reading

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Union Credit Union opens new Tri-Cities branch in Kennewick

The new credit union to serve union members and their families opened in February in Kennewick. The Union Credit Union’s Kennewick branch is at 3021 West Clearwater Avenue. Members of Bricklayers Local 3 in Spokane started the Union Credit Union … Continue reading

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Union Credit Union opens new Tri-Cities branch in Kennewick

The new credit union to serve union members and their families opened in February in Kennewick. The Union Credit Union’s Kennewick branch is at 3021 West Clearwater Avenue. Members of Bricklayers Local 3 n Spokane started the Union Credit Union … Continue reading

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Mid-Columbia road projects receive $5.3M stimulus boost

About $5.3 million in federal stimulus money will pay for 11 transportation projects in Benton and Franklin counties. Nearly $3 million will be going to Benton County and Richland. Richland should receive about $1.6 million to overhaul First Street in … Continue reading

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1,000 new houses will have ripple effect

Economist tells builders benefits of construction Construction of 1,000 new homes in the Tri-Cities in 2008 will pay for itself in about six years, said an economist with the National Association of Home Builders. Elliot Eisenberg explained the economic benefits … Continue reading

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Tri-City economy resilient

Selling cars in an economic downturn is nothing new to Bill McCurley. He started his auto sales business in the Tri-Cities in the early 1980’s when interest rates were in the high double digits and there were layoffs at Hanford. … Continue reading

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