What’s being built there? New $9.5M airport hotel + Costco, Chick-fil-A and townhomes
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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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Welcome to “What’s being built there?” where the Tri-City Herald gives brief descriptions of construction projects shaping Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, West Richland and surrounding communities.
Suggest construction projects you’ve spotted by contacting us at news@tricityherald.com.
Kennewick
My Little Planet Learning Center
3000 W. Kennewick Ave.
The new My Little Planet Learning Center holds its grand opening on Nov. 23 and will fully open within a few weeks.
My Little Planet is a day care and preschool serving infants and children through age 4.
Owners Ana and Simon Samaniego extensively renovated a building that once housed a Trios urgent care clinic and before that, Kania Clinic.
Workers recently installed a sign for the business. The city of Kennewick issued an occupancy permit on Nov. 19 after the project passed its final inspection.
The renovation, valued at $400000, included a substantial interior remodeling. Davis General Construction LLC was the contractor.
Alisheva Law Office (update)
3730 Zintel Way
Alisheva Law is building a $1.7 million office in western Kennewick, near the Zintel Canyon dam and a Kadlec Clinic.
Workers recently began erecting the metal frame for the 11,650-square-foot office building. It will be a two-story structure with a roof deck.
Aliya Alisheva and Justin Myre are the owners. Takara Homes is the contractor.
Volland Street Townhomes
718 N. Volland St.
B & B Real Estate and Westridge Properties LLC are constructing a two-building townhome complex on North Volland Street, near John Day.
One building will have three units and the other will have four.
Building records indicate a single-family home on the site was demolished to make room for the project.
VS Custom LLC is the contractor.
Pasco
Home2 Suites by Hilton
2203 W. Argent St., at Tri-Cities Airport
Pasco’s A-1 Hospitality Group LLC has started work on a 107-room Home2 Suites extended-stay hotel near the entrance to the Tri-Cities Airport.
The new project is next to another A-1 hotel, the Courtyafchrd by Marriott.
A-1, led by president Vijay Patel and son Taran Patel, entered a 75-year land lease with the Port of Pasco in late 2023 to install a second hotel near the airport.
The project has a construction value of $9.5 million and will consist of a wood-framed, four-story hotel. Amenities include an indoor pool, conference room and fitness center. Fowler General Construction Inc. is the contractor.
Amazon distribution station (update)
5802 N. Capitol Ave.
Amazon Inc.’s 90,000 distribution station in north Pasco is built and work has moved inside to convert the interior into a proper distribution facility.
The company secured a permit to invest about $600,000 on tenant improvements such as walls, restrooms and equipment.
The distribution station joins two warehouses in Pasco and will help enable speedier deliveries. One warehouse, 1351 S. Road 40 E., opened in mid-2024 as a package hub for merchandise arriving in the Amazon system. The other remains empty.
Axiom Material Handling is the contractor for the Capitol Avenue building, which is expected to begin operating in 2025.
Surf Thru Express Carwash
4621 Convention Place
Chervenell Construction Co. is preparing land near Pasco’s HAPO Center for a 6,000-square-foot Surf Thru Express car wash.
The car wash includes two buildings and canopies area for vacuum systems.
The project has a construction value of $2.5 million, according to building permits. Gary S. Barnes of Wolfe Architecture Group in Spokane is the architect. Todd Gale of Bakersfield, Calif., is the property owner.
In case you missed it
Some projects are some of the bigger developments that made headlines in recent weeks that you will see work continuing on.
Costco Wholesale 2nd store
3125 Queensgate Drive, Richland
The Tri-Cities much-anticipated 2nd Costco store is taking shape in Richland after the Issaquah-based warehouse giant cut a deal to lease land from the state Department of Natural Resources.
The 30-acre project will feature a Costco store, fueling station and up to seven additional sites for future development. the Richland store will be 20% bigger than its sister in Kennewick and it will have about 24% more parking spaces.
Lydig Construction Inc. is the contractor. Excavators began scraping a store-shaped patch of earth along Truman Avenue this week.
Chick-fil-A
7009 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick
The Atlanta chicken chain secured a building permit from the city of Kennewick on Nov. 7 and immediately fenced off the site of its first Tri-Cities location. Workers could be seen breaking up the existing asphalt to the west of Wendy’s.
The $1.1 million, 5,000-square-foot restaurant will have indoor and outdoor seating and a two-lane drive-thru. Engineered Structures Inc. is the contractor. Big D’s Construction of Tri-Cities is handling excavation/underground work.
Last Albertsons in Tri-Cities
1330 N. 20th Ave., Pasco
The last Albertsons-branded grocery in the Tri-Cities is getting a makeover and will be converted into a Safeway.
Permits indicate the project includes repainting, restroom and breakroom upgrades and new shelving, refrigerators and decor.
Its Boise-based parent company, Albertsons Companies Inc., previously converted stores in Richland and Kennewick to the Safeway brand.
This story was originally published November 22, 2024 at 5:00 AM.
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