Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Development updates
Our Dream Continued, LLC is building a 48,000-sq-ft building by the lake in the Stevens Center Business Park, at 2490 Garlick Blvd. The building will house the offices of several affiliated companies, including Garlick Enterprises, Inc. and Stevens Center Management, Inc. The building, expected to be completed in August 2008, will include space for other tenants and meeting areas for organizations.
Construction began on three new buildings that comprise the 200-000-sq-ft Physical Sciences Facility on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus. The Physical Sciences Facility, to be completed by 2011, will house scientific research important to national and homeland security as well as science agendas. Two other buildings on the PNNL campus will break ground in June and are expected to be completed in 2010. The 75,600-sq-ft Computational Sciences Facility will host information analytics capabilities, computer laboratories, and electronic and instrumentation labs. The 73,100-sq-ft Biological Sciences Facility will house biological and nuclear magnetic resonance laboratory space.
The Willow Pointe Community, prime riverfront property in north Richland, has sold at least seven residential units to date, with more available. A total of 64 units are planned in the residential and commercial development.
The Port of Benton has leased land to a private developer for two 25,000-sq.-ft. office buildings. The developer is seeking tenants. The Port of Benton also has leveled and opened 12 acres of property along the Columbia River waterfront for commercial development near Penford Food Ingredients Company and is seeking building developers.
