There’s an interesting new development on the table in Richland. They’re considering a new community, within the city limits, wherein all the houses are run on solar energy and the businesses are built green, too. Houses, shops, schools, everything you’d find in a non-green area, would be there. The difference? Everything built in an eco-friendly [...]

A sign of improving times? The City of Richland says housing starts in October numbered 25, which is almost double the 13 housing starts in Richland in October, 2008. It’s also in line with housing starts between 2005 and 2007. Commercial construction in October was consistent with the past couple years. The city says it [...]

Why not? All the kids are doing it. Okay, maybe not the KIDS, but retirees are. U.S. News and World Report recently named Richland, WA as one of the Top 10 Affordable Places to Retire. Woo-hoo!!!! Just last night, I had dinner with some friends who live in a house that sits on the banks [...]

Apartments are at close to 100% ocupancy, and rental houses are few and far between all over the Tri-Cities. Richland seems to hard hit especially because people want to live close to work, and most renters are here to work out at the Hanford area or at one of the associated business, all of which [...]

I’m fairly certain that the people who own and run Bristol Homes don’t read this blog, but if they DID, they’d know now is the time to go ahead and follow through on the project they started in 2006. They abandoned the building because the economic climate changed and lenders stopped lending.  This is true, [...]

2008 beat out 2007′s new construction numbers to the tune of about $26 million.  This is mostly due to a huge commercial venture by Batelle.  But, housing dollars were up, too.  In 2008, an average newly built home in Richland averaged $276,932, which is up 2.6% from the year before.  This helps support the oft-repeated [...]