Two hotels, corporate suites and an apartment complex will be built adjacent to Richland's Horn Rapids Golf Course within the next two years.

Foundations for the more than $110 million project by developer Stew Stone of Salem, Ore., could be poured as soon as January.

The hotels, villas and apartment complex owned by Red Stone Development will be on 35 acres near the fairways of holes 3, 4 and 5 at the golf course, Stone said.

No homes have been built in that area yet. That was on purpose, so that people who buy homes in the future will know that they will be living near the hotels and apartments, Stone said.

Stone, with the company North Stone Richland, is the developer for the master planned community in the golf course area. He had been developing subdivisions and selling the lots to builders for the past eight years through an agreement with the city of Richland.

December 31, 2009

Ever since “It’s Complicated” was released in theaters last week the online garden community has been buzzing about Jane’s (Meryl Streep) vegetable garden, above. Its lushness, colorfulness, perkiness … well, it’s almost pornographic. One doesn’t know whether to envy it, or to be concerned about anyone that eats from it.

“The idea was it was meant to look like a real cook’s garden,” said Jon Hutman, the film’s production designer, speaking on the phone from a hotel room in Italy. “We try to make the movies look real, but a very delicious version of real.”

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