Richland Real Estate Blog

That’s how the Los Angeles Times explains the growing tourism coming to Richland because of Hanford and the Hanford Reach National Monument. I know many Richlanders won’t like the comparison, but I’m a sucker for clever analogies, even if they are a bit suspect.
On the tourism/visitor front, the article talks about those uber-popular DOE tours [...]

The US Fish & Wildlife Service has finished its final CCP (Comprehensive Conservation Plan) for the Hanford Reach area and posted it (in several parts, or as one large PDF) on the Service’s web site. Here are some highlights of the plan:

26,000 acres of land would be opened to the public, while about 2,000 would [...]

There’s been a lot of coverage in the local paper and TV news about the possibility of at least three Richland city parks closing down soon: Westwood, Barth and Greater Years parks. The city says the parks aren’t used very much and cost about $10,000 to maintain. Richland residents say the parks are used more [...]

Interesting article in the Herald today about salaries in Benton County. According to the article, workers in Benton County have the third highest average weekly wage in Washington in 2007.
The county’s average weekly salary was $842, up 3.9 percent over 2006. By comparison, Franklin County workers earned an average of $593 in 2007, a [...]

We’ve talked about heading over to George Prout Pool for some swimming this summer, but as yet the McGee family has yet to follow through on that. And we’re running out of time to do it now: The poll will close for the summer on August 24. That’s less than three weeks away - yikes!
We [...]

Just updating the blog post from last week about Hanford’s B-Reactor…. the National Park Service advisory board voted unanimously this week to recommend that the site be declared a National Historic Landmark. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will make the final decision.
Local officials say the NHL status would give the Tri-Cities more exposure on the national [...]