Add up every housing project announced, approved or under construction around Southridge and you get about 2,500 units. Roughly 200 of them are detached single-family houses. The headlines about hundreds of new homes in south Kennewick are accurate. If you plan to buy a house with a yard, though, the supply that sets your price and your negotiating room is the region's pool of homes listed for sale. In August 2026, that pool held more listings than at any point since 2013, and the planned pipeline adds comparatively few detached houses to it.
What is actually being built on the Zintel Way side
Most of the projects on record have a name, a developer and an address. Here they are in one place, based on Tri-City Herald construction reporting from 2026.
| Project | Location | Planned units | Type | Status in the reporting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon View Apartments | 3605 S. Zintel Way, Hildebrand Blvd roundabout | 58 | Apartments | Largely framed as of April 2026 |
| Havenridge Apartments | 4305 S. Zintel Way, beside Highway 395 | 195 | Apartments | Under construction, opening summer 2027 |
| Unnamed approved project | Southridge area | 300 | Multifamily | Approved, per city officials |
| Urban Trails Planned Residential Community | 152 acres off Bob Olson Pkwy at Wheat Rd | about 1,945 | About 1,300 apartments, 445 townhomes, 200 single-family | Grading underway as of March 2026 |
The Tri-City Herald's April 28 report describes Canyon View as five buildings on a 4.5-acre parcel, built by Elite Construction & Development. It describes Havenridge as a garden-style complex from Seattle-based Evergreen Housing Development Group, which paid $3.55 million for its 12.5-acre site in 2022. As of that April report, the City of Kennewick had authorized utility work on Havenridge but had not yet issued building permits.
City officials told Apple Valley News Now that the three multifamily projects alone could add more than 550 units to the Southridge area. That article carries no publication date. It is still the only source for the 300-unit approval, and it does not name that project.
Add the four rows together and detached houses come to about 8% of the planned units. Townhomes are a bit under a fifth. Everything else is apartments.
The rental market is where this supply lands
Apartments compete with other apartments, and the Tri-Cities rental market already had room in it. The Herald's July 19 report, citing a CoStar quarterly report published by The Management Group, put the area's apartment vacancy rate at 7.9% in spring 2026. Average asking rents were $1,700 a month at high-end properties, $1,424 at mid-level ones and $1,228 at older ones.
Demand is not standing still either. The same report cites Washington Employment Security's count of 146,587 Tri-Cities jobs in May 2026, a gain of nearly 6,000 in twelve months. Developers are building into that job growth. Havenridge, the Herald notes, will be one of the most visible projects in the region because it stretches between Ridgeline and Hildebrand on the south side of Highway 395.
For anyone weighing a Southridge rental as an investment, that is where the supply pressure sits. Hundreds of new units will be leasing near the same corridor within a couple of years, in a market that already had close to one apartment in twelve sitting empty this spring. For someone buying a house to live in, those units mostly fill a different need, and the competition comes from elsewhere.
The for-sale side has its own surge
The supply that competes with a detached Southridge home is the pool of homes listed for sale, and that pool has been growing all year.
The Tri-City Association of Realtors' August 2026 dashboard, generated September 11, recorded 1,303 active listings across the Tri-Cities. TCAR called it the most homes on the market since September 2013, up 14.7% from August 2025. Inventory rose in every one of the first eight months of 2026.
Sales kept pace. August 2026 closed 344 homes against 343 a year earlier, and year-to-date sales through August were up 6.6% over the same stretch of 2025. Prices eased instead of dropping sharply:
- Median sold price, August 2026: $428,900, down 2.5% from August 2025 and down from July's $435,700
- Median days on market, August 2026: 27, up from 24 in July
- Months of supply, August 2026: about 3.8, up from 3.3 a year earlier
- Pending listings, August 2026: 355, running 9% behind August 2025
TCAR's own outlook called this fall a balanced Tri-Cities market. It expected active listings to peak and start their seasonal decline over the following two months, with median prices likely holding in the $420,000 to $440,000 range while buyers keep the advantage in negotiations.
These figures cover the whole Tri-Cities. TCAR's boundary runs from Richland and Pasco to Benton City, Finley and Burbank, and the dashboard doesn't separate Kennewick or single-family homes. At the time of writing, August was the latest month published. Still, the direction matches the Southridge picture. Buyers right now have more listings to choose from than at any time in more than a decade. The dashboard doesn't split resale from new construction, but the apartment projects on Zintel Way are rentals, not homes for sale.
The 200 houses at Urban Trails arrive slowly
The one project that adds detached houses, Urban Trails, is also the slowest. The Herald's March 2 report locates it at 1737 S. Clodfelter Road, a wedge-shaped 152-acre site next to Desert Hills Middle School, with its main entrance on Bob Olson Parkway at Wheat Road. Mitchell Creer LLC and Ranchland Homes LLC are the developers, and Rotschy Inc. was handling grading that was visible from Interstate 82.
According to environmental review documents cited in that report, Urban Trails will build out in phases over five to 10 years. Spread across that window, about 200 single-family houses come to a few dozen a year at most. That is small next to a regional market that closed 344 homes in August 2026 alone.
The plan has also changed along the way. The original 2023 proposal, as reported by the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, called for 1,333 multifamily units, 445 townhomes and 100 large-lot single-family homes. The March 2026 Herald description puts the single-family count at about 200. Apple Valley News Now's figure of around 1,100 total units for "the Trails" doesn't match either version. Until the phases are platted, every count here is a planned number.
The 445 townhomes are the part to watch if you're shopping at entry-level prices. They sit between the apartment and detached-house markets. Depending on how they are sold, they could eventually compete with older, smaller resale homes in south Kennewick.
What changes day to day along Zintel and Bob Olson
Supply sets prices, but the projects also change how this part of Kennewick works for the people who live here.
Roads. Building permits cited by the Herald show a Ridgeline Drive extension that will separate Urban Trails from Desert Hills Middle School. On the other side of Highway 395, Havenridge fills the stretch between Ridgeline and Hildebrand, across from The Auto Lot at Southridge.
Health care. City officials have said a 24,000-square-foot VA clinic is expected on Zintel Way, with foundation work possibly starting before the end of the year. No completion date has been announced.
Somewhere to eat. The Herald reported in September that The Kiln Taproom plans a family-friendly Southridge location at 2605 S. Williams Place, near the W. 27th Avenue and S. Union Street roundabout. Plans call for handmade pizzas and regional beers, with construction expected to finish in summer or early fall 2027.
Summer 2027 is shaping up as a busy season for this corridor, with Havenridge's opening and the taproom's target both landing then. A buyer who closes this fall will see that corridor fill in during their first couple of years in the house.
A few questions we get about this
Is Urban Trails part of Southridge? It sits on Kennewick's south side at Bob Olson Parkway and Wheat Road, next to Desert Hills Middle School. Apple Valley News Now's coverage of Southridge-area growth includes "the Trails." The Herald describes the site by its cross streets and doesn't use a neighborhood name.
When will Havenridge open? The Herald reports a summer 2027 opening. Construction had started by July 2026.
Does all this apartment construction lower nearby home prices? None of the reporting measures that. Here is what it does show. Most of the new units are rentals, and spring 2026 Tri-Cities vacancy was already at 7.9%. Tri-Cities for-sale inventory was at a 13-year high in August 2026, and the planned pipeline adds about 200 detached houses over five to 10 years.
If you're comparing Southridge with other parts of the Tri-Cities, we can go through which current listings are up against new construction and which aren't. Reach out to Laura & Wes Hodges and sign up to get Southridge listings in your inbox as this fall's inventory changes.
