Encouraging engineering

from Journal of Business - March 2023

by Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business/Senior Times

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Spokane firm last year. The acquisition of Brutzman’s Office Solutions links Freeform’s Spokane and Boise operations and will mean increased efficiencies and savings that will be passed onto customers, Heath said.

Freeform is a company of “furniture geeks” with a passion for making spaces for “people, culture and communities to thrive,” its website says. It has an extensive

The Journal of Business has confirmed that one of the buyers is Bruce Ratchford, founder and CEO of Apollo Mechanical Contractors. The purchase isn’t related to that business.

Ratchford’s son, Ryan, said the five parcels along Columbia Park Trail between Carolina and Dakota avenues that his father is buying are a good investment, but there are no development plans at this time. The land includes SagePort Grille and a market, which are staying put at the moment.

Jim Clifford, right, a Washington River Protection Solutions chemical engineer, works with fourth-graders on an engineering activity at White Bluffs Elementary School in Richland. The event was one of several Hanford Engineers Week demonstrations in area schools between Feb. 21-27. Engineers and other volunteers from the following Hanford site contractors participated: WRPS, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, Bechtel National, Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, Central Plateau Cleanup Company and HPMC Occupational Health Services.

The two remaining Wye parcels to be sold are general business properties on either side of Fowler Street, generally bounded by Nevada and Louisiana avenues and Helena Street.

Sleater, a grocer, firefighter and fire commissioner and real estate owner, died in 2019, leaving behind property that included 18 parcels totaling 10 commercial, education, government, health care and multifamily portfolio, and it offers services from commercial space planning and design to ergonomic office furniture specification to architectural products and elements selection, and more. The company says it’s the only B Corp-certified furniture dealer in the world. acres in the Richland Wye, which is an area stretching east of Columbia Center Boulevard to Highway 240 along the Yakima River Delta. different model from the other restaurants. and 20% for men. Also on offer is decor, beauty, accessories and gift items.

Search Brutzman’s Office Solutions is at 2501 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Richland.

The property has a variety of zoning, including commercial limited business, general business, waterfront, medium density residential, and business and commerce.

The area seems poised for transformation, with some significant investments made or in the works in recent years, from the Port of Kennewick’s Spaulding Business Park a decade ago to the new Fable casual family restaurant in the offing from John Bookwalter, the Richland winemaker and restaurateur, in the former R.F. McDougall’s Irish Pub & Eatery.

The city of Richland also spent $5 million on upgraded streets, sidewalks and other infrastructure in the area.

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A few different options crossed the table for the site, including a popular proposal for a public market in 2017. However, the city decided to sell the property to Mark Lambert, president of the Chicago-based Crown Group, to develop Park Place.

“We will have a walk- and pick-up window or place an order on a mobile platform,” John Lastoskie said. “When we first open, it might only be vehicles. We’re figuring it out as we go.”

“We’re experimenting,” said Kania who has been a nurse in the area for over two decades, “but we appreciate quality over quantity.” Nickolaus works in the beauty industry.

Pratt Construction is the general contractor.

Lastoskie said that the success of the other locations, including at Park Place, has allowed this expansion.

Spokane-based Prodigy Property Management oversees the day-to-day management and apartment leases, while Lambert manages the retail spaces.