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What’s being built there? New Kennewick restaurant + Hundreds of lofts and townhomes

By Wendy Culverwell

Updated May 29, 2025 1:44 PM

What’s being built there? A reader’s guide

What’s being built there? is an occasional Tri-City Herald feature that offers quick explanations of the building projects taking shape in the community. Suggest projects via email: news@tricityherald.com.

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Kennewick, WA

Welcome to What’s being built there?

This week, we’re happy to answer a West Richland resident’s question about construction near the city shops. Suffice to say, she was glad to have her prayers answered.

Send your questions about project around town and tips to news@tricityherald.com.

Kennewick

Canal Landing Subdivision Phase 1

4711 W. Canal Drive

Site work has started for a neighborhood of 101 townhouses on Canal Drive, near West Quinault Avenue.

The 7.42-acre property was previously rezoned and cleared of a garage structure make way for Canal Landing, a development by Canal Landing Opportunity and Ambience Homes.

Tri-Rivers Excavating has started work on the first phase, which consists of installing utilities to serve the future neighborhood.

Construction is proceeding on Clearwater Lofts, a 32-unit residential and commercial project near the Catholic Parish of The Holy Spirit church in western Kennewick. Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com

Clearwater Lofts (update)

7275 W. Clearwater Ave.,

The $4.5 million, 32-unit loft project is taking shape near Catholic Parish of the Holy Spirit in west Kennewick.

The project is being developed by Zook Homez LLC, an arm of Smile a Mile Painting, and will include commercial space in addition to the residential lofts.

The city of Kennewick approved building permits a year ago for both the residential structure and the commercial space.

DKEI Architecture Services is the designer. Knutzen Engineering is the engineer.

Moon Cafe (update)

3719 Plaza Way

Foundations are being poured for Moon Cafe, a new restaurant starting to take shape near The Original Pancake House and Hampton Inn in Kennewick’s Southridge area.

The city of Kennewick approved the building permits in June.

The 3,077-square-foot restaurant is being built by Tiger Construction of West Richland. Baker Architecture is the designer.

West Richland

Dutch Bros

6429 Keene Road

Dutch Bros, the Oregon-based coffee chain, is expanding its presence in the Tri-Cities with a drive-thru near the West Richland municipal city shops complex.

The project includes retail space for future tenants and is comparable to the Dutch Bros at Wellsian Way and Stevens Drive in Richland.

Townhomes

Keene and Albion

MWIC Northwest TH LLC, a division of Salem, Ore.,-based Mountain West Investment Corp., is building a 137-unit townhome complex along Albion Street and Paradise Way.

The project site is near The Heights at Red Mountain Ranch, a residential development.

Red Mountain looms over townhomes being constructed by MWIC Northwest TH LLC, an arm of Ranchland Homes, at Keene and Albion in West Richland. Photo taken September 2024. Tri-City Herald

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This story was originally published September 24, 2024 at 5:00 AM.

Wendy Culverwell

Tri-City Herald

Reporter Wendy Culverwell writes about growth, development and business for the Tri-City Herald. She has worked for daily and weekly publications in Washington and Oregon. She earned a degree in English and economics from the University of Puget Sound. Support my work with a digital subscription