Richland spends $7M on long-vacant building. $50M remodel comes next

The city of Richland closed the deal to purchase the long-vacant office building it intends to convert into its new police station.

The city paid $7.1 million, including broker fees, for the seven-story office building at 1200 Jadwin Ave.

A consortium of investors led by Corey Bitton, called 1200 Jadwin LLC, was the seller. It paid $3.5 million for the property in October 2024.

The city announced this spring that it was working to buy the Tri-Cities Professional Center, once home to Fluor, as its future police headquarters.

It entered a purchase agreement worth nearly $8 million in April.

The final price was reduced by about $1 million after completing an independent appraisal and architectural and structural inspections.

The city chose the hulking building over constructing a new building, saying the expected $50 million renovation cost is $15 million less than starting from scratch.

The current police station is too small and isn’t suited to expansion, say city officials.

The final price was $7 million, plus $87,500 for a buyer’s commission.

The deal includes a 126,000-square-foot office building, expansive parking and a 4.2-acre property bordering the Urban Greenbelt Trail.

The city intends to fund the new police station in part from proceeds of a deal to sell land to Atlas Agro for a data center. That sale has yet to happen.

In October 2025, it agreed to sell 275 acres near Horn Rapids to Atlas Agro for $24 million.

Atlas Agro proposes building a $500 million data center on the site, which is next to the property where it wants to build a “low-carbon” fertilizer plant.

Track the future police station project at cleargov.com.