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Tri Cities WA Job Growth Defying the Rest of the Country
According to all sources in the Tri Cities area of Washington state, the area’s job growth continues to defy trends across the rest of the country. Since May 2008, the Tri City area has gained 500 jobs in professional and business services, education and health services, leisure, hospitality and food services according to Dean Schau, [...]
Tri Cities Real Estate Effects from WSU-Tri Cities Branch Campus
New partnerships between Washington State University Tri-Cities and local companies and institutions will be a major contributing factor in continuing to diversify the Tri Cities economy and making it a center for research. As partnerships between WSU Tri Cities and area companies like Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Battelle are developed promoting research in Battelle’s [...]
Optimism Balanced with Facts
There have been many reasons cited in the media over the past couple of months for waiting to purchase a new home. Unavailability of financing, fear the market will continue to decrease a home’s value, looming unemployment increases, continued foreclosures. The majority of reporters and politicians don’t pay enough attention to an important cause of [...]
Why Battelle is so Important
This week we were again reminded, in a huge way, how important Battelle is to the Tri Cities. Not just because they are a big employer here, or the impact they have on research and innovation in key fundamental sciences and technology. Battelle has consistently been a good neighbor for us, funneling large amounts of [...]
I’m Loving it! (with apologies to MickyD’s)
I’d like to share a video that really shows why Richland, Pasco and Kennewick is such a great place to live. I grew up here, my kids have grown up here, and my mom grew up here- see the pattern?? We spend as much time as possible on the river during the summer. On the Columbia [...]
