Conagra Foods eager to break ground for new Lamb Weston Offices in Richmond

ConAgra Foods is eager to start a new office building for subsidiary Lamb Weston now that the Richland City Council has approved a new $1.4 million deal for land at Columbia Point.

ConAgra spokesman Jeff Mochal said Thursday that some details remain to be finalized and there's no date set for ground breaking, but Lamb Weston's growth makes the need for a bigger office building to replace the existing building in Kennewick paramount.

"They are a vibrant business for us,"Mochal said. "They're outgrowing the space they're in."

The $28 million building will house 300 employees of Lamb Weston, a ConAgra subsidiary focused on potato processing, said Gary Ballew, Richland's economic development manager.