Swagg Coffee Bar Spans Pasco and West Richland, and Flying X Holds Gage Boulevard in Kennewick

Jacob Mishalanie

Oct 7

10 min read

View from Candy Mountain over West Richland, Washington, toward Red Mountain and Rattlesnake Mountain

Swagg Coffee Bar runs three real locations across two cities: two in Pasco, at 2915 N 20th Ave and 4845 Broadmoor Blvd, and one in West Richland, at 1472 Bombing Range Rd Building A. A few miles away, on Gage Boulevard in Kennewick, Flying X Coffee keeps a shop at 8530 W Gage Blvd STE E, carrying its own story that starts in Connell in 2015.

These are two separate businesses with two separate footprints, and both are genuinely useful examples of how coffee actually moves across the Tri Cities. What follows is each shop's real story, told through its own locations, its own addresses, its own hours, and its own history.

None of what follows is a ranking against any other Tri Cities coffee business. It is a clear, sourced account of two genuinely different shops, their real footprints, and the histories behind them.

Both shops deserve to be understood on their own terms, with their own real geography, rather than folded into one flattened account of coffee expansion somewhere in the Tri Cities.

Swagg's Three Rooms

Swagg Coffee Bar operates from three separate addresses: 2915 N 20th Ave in Pasco, 4845 Broadmoor Blvd, also in Pasco, and 1472 Bombing Range Rd Building A in West Richland. That spread makes Swagg the one business in these posts with locations in two different cities, rather than a single storefront.

Two locations in Pasco and one in West Richland also means Swagg's story is really the story of two different cities at once. Pasco is one of the three poles of this metro in its own right, and West Richland is a separate city from Richland proper, sitting further west. Swagg's presence in both places is worth understanding as exactly what it is: one business with real, distinct locations in two different cities.

It is worth pausing on what it actually takes for a small coffee business to run three separate locations across two cities at once. Staffing, supplies, and consistency all have to hold across multiple addresses, which is a meaningfully different operational challenge than running one storefront. Swagg's ability to maintain that spread says something real about the demand it has found across both Pasco and West Richland.

It also means a customer loyal to Swagg does not have to choose between Pasco and West Richland. Whichever city they happen to be in, one of Swagg's three locations is likely close by, a genuine convenience that a single storefront business simply cannot offer.

Three Rooms, Three Sets of Hours

Swagg publishes separate hours for each location, and they are early. All three open at 5am Monday through Friday and at 6am on Saturday and Sunday, seven days a week, at all three locations at once.

The two locations at 2915 N 20th Ave in Pasco and 1472 Bombing Range Rd in West Richland keep matching schedules: 5am to 6pm Monday through Thursday, 5am to 7pm on Friday, 6am to 7pm on Saturday, and 6am to 6pm on Sunday. A regular who splits the week between the two cities can count on the same window in either one.

The Broadmoor Blvd room in Pasco runs an hour later every evening. It keeps 5am to 7pm Monday through Thursday, 5am to 8pm on Friday, 6am to 8pm on Saturday, and 6am to 7pm on Sunday. For an evening coffee or a late burrito in Pasco, 4845 Broadmoor Blvd is the room to know.

Hours like these say something plain about who these shops are built for. A 5am door serves shift workers, early commuters and parents on a school run, and a 7pm or 8pm close serves the same people on the way home. On a Friday at the Broadmoor Blvd shop, that means fifteen straight hours with the door open.

Burritos, Sandwiches and Baked Goods

Swagg's own menu description lists homemade baked goods, burritos and sandwiches next to the coffee, which gives each of its three locations a fuller purpose beyond a coffee counter, more of a genuine neighborhood stop across both Pasco and West Richland.

A menu built around both coffee and real food, rather than coffee alone, also changes how a shop fits into a customer's day. A stop for a quick espresso is a different kind of visit than a stop for a burrito and a coffee together, and Swagg's broader menu positions each of its three locations as a fuller daily stop rather than a narrow specialty counter.

Fresh baked goods paired with coffee also signals a shop built for a longer visit, not just a quick grab and go stop. That distinction matters for how a neighborhood uses a coffee shop, whether it becomes a place to linger or simply a place to pass through.

Put the hours and the menu together and the picture is consistent. A shop that opens at 5am and serves burritos is a breakfast stop. A shop that stays open until 8pm and serves sandwiches is a dinner hour stop too. Swagg's three locations are built to be useful across the whole day, in two cities at once.

Flying X on Gage Boulevard

Flying X Coffee keeps its shop at 8530 W Gage Blvd STE E in Kennewick, a Gage Boulevard address distinct from the West Kennewick Avenue corridor that anchors downtown Kennewick's other coffee shops. That makes Gage Boulevard its own coffee corridor within Kennewick, separate from downtown entirely.

Flying X publishes its own hours for that location: 7am to 5pm Monday through Friday, and 8am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. That is a steady, all week schedule, seven days a week with a slightly later start on weekends, which makes the Gage Boulevard shop an easy stop to plan around for anyone on that side of Kennewick.

Gage Boulevard sitting apart from downtown Kennewick's West Kennewick Avenue corridor is itself worth noting plainly. Kennewick, like Pasco and Richland, is large enough to hold more than one real coffee corridor within its own city limits, and Flying X's Gage Boulevard address gives that part of Kennewick its own dedicated coffee stop, distinct from anything happening downtown.

The room also sits in a city with a sizable chain layer. Dutch Bros lists four Kennewick locations on its own locator page, at 3918 Clearwater Avenue, 731 N Columbia Center Blvd, 4305 W 27th Pl and 3 W Columbia Dr. None of them is on Gage Boulevard, which leaves 8530 W Gage Blvd as that corridor's own clear coffee address.

Kennewick's other independent coffee addresses covered in these posts sit downtown, at 101 and 604 W Kennewick Ave, a few blocks apart on the same avenue. A reader who knows Kennewick only by its downtown would miss the Gage Boulevard shop entirely, which is exactly why the city deserves to be described as more than one coffee corridor. Downtown and Gage Boulevard are both Kennewick, and both need their own street named out loud.

Flying X's Connell Beginning

Flying X's own story starts well before its Kennewick room. The business dates to 2015, when the first Flying X shop opened in Connell, and its story runs through Pasco before arriving on Gage Boulevard in Kennewick.

Connell is a real, separate city from the three main Tri Cities poles, a small place of 5,080 residents in the 2023 Census estimates, and naming it here is not a suggestion to treat Connell as a fourth pole of this metro. It is simply an honest piece of Flying X's own origin story, the small city where the business began.

That growth path, Connell to Pasco to Kennewick, describes a business that grew gradually across this wider region over roughly a decade, eventually settling on Gage Boulevard with deep roots in the area.

A decade of growth across three different cities, Connell, Pasco, and Kennewick, is a substantial history for an independent coffee business to carry. It reflects a team that has built real, lasting relationships in more than one community along the way, rather than opening once and staying static.

For a coffee drinker anywhere in the Tri Cities today, Flying X's Connell roots may not be visible in the cup itself, but they are part of what gives this particular Kennewick room its depth, a business that grew up in this wider stretch of Washington before settling into its current Gage Boulevard home.

Pasco, West Richland and Kennewick

The two businesses in this piece touch three different cities between them, and each city has its own scale. Kennewick counted 84,389 residents in the Census Bureau's 2023 five year American Community Survey, Pasco 78,446, and West Richland 17,126. Richland proper, with 61,912, is a separate city again, and neither business in this piece has a room there.

That last point is worth holding onto. Swagg's Bombing Range Road room is in West Richland, not Richland, even though the two names sit side by side on a map. Dutch Bros draws the same line on its own locator pages, listing one West Richland stand at 6429 Keene Rd apart from its two Richland stands at 496 Keene Rd and 490 Wellsian Way.

Pasco, where two of Swagg's locations sit, carries two Dutch Bros locations of its own, at 2601 Court Street and 6609 Burden Blvd. Neither of those streets is N 20th Ave or Broadmoor Blvd, so each of Swagg's Pasco locations gives its own part of the city a local coffee address distinct from the drive thrus.

Pasco also holds one more independent address in these posts, a cafe at 9425 Sandifur Pkwy Suite 105 in West Pasco. With N 20th Ave, Broadmoor Blvd and Sandifur Parkway all in the same city, Pasco has at least three independent coffee addresses on three different streets, which is more than enough reason to stop describing it as the quiet middle of the Tri Cities.

Two Businesses, Two Real Footprints

Swagg Coffee Bar and Flying X Coffee are different businesses with different stories, and it is worth keeping them distinct rather than blending them into one generic account of Tri Cities coffee growth. Swagg's footprint runs across Pasco and West Richland, three locations with early doors and a full food menu. Flying X's footprint runs from Connell through Pasco and into Kennewick, one current shop on Gage Boulevard with a decade of history behind it.

For anyone looking at the two side by side, the contrast is instructive. Swagg is defined by its spread, three locations serving two cities under one name, open from 5am. Flying X is defined by its path, a business that began in a much smaller city in 2015 and now keeps a seven day shop on a Kennewick corridor of its own.

That is the through line worth carrying forward from both shops: real addresses, real hours, real histories, and real distinctions between cities, told plainly, are what make a coffee scene like this one useful to understand, rather than a blur of familiar names spread across an unfamiliar region.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where are Swagg Coffee Bar's three locations?

Swagg Coffee Bar operates from 2915 N 20th Ave in Pasco, 4845 Broadmoor Blvd, also in Pasco, and 1472 Bombing Range Rd Building A in West Richland. That gives it locations in two separate cities, Pasco with 78,446 residents and West Richland with 17,126 in the 2023 Census estimates, rather than a single storefront. Each location keeps its own posted hours, starting at 5am on weekdays.

What time does Swagg Coffee Bar open?

All three Swagg locations open at 5am Monday through Friday and at 6am on Saturday and Sunday. The N 20th Ave shop in Pasco and the Bombing Range Rd shop in West Richland close at 6pm Monday through Thursday and at 7pm on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday both of those locations keep 6am to 6pm.

Which Swagg room stays open latest?

The 4845 Broadmoor Blvd location in Pasco runs an hour later than the other two every evening: 7pm Monday through Thursday and on Sunday, and 8pm on Friday and Saturday. It opens at the same 5am on weekdays and 6am on weekends, so it covers the longest day of any of Swagg's three locations, fifteen hours on a Friday.

What does Swagg Coffee Bar serve besides coffee?

Swagg's own menu description lists homemade baked goods, burritos and sandwiches alongside the coffee. Paired with a 5am weekday opening and evening closes of 6pm to 8pm, that menu makes each of its locations on N 20th Ave, Broadmoor Blvd and Bombing Range Rd a breakfast, lunch and early dinner stop, in Pasco and West Richland alike, seven days a week.

Where is Flying X Coffee located?

Flying X Coffee is at 8530 W Gage Blvd STE E in Kennewick, on the Gage Boulevard corridor, separate from downtown Kennewick's West Kennewick Avenue. None of the four Kennewick Dutch Bros stands, on Clearwater Avenue, N Columbia Center Blvd, W 27th Pl and W Columbia Dr, sits on Gage Boulevard, and downtown's own independent shops sit at 101 and 604 W Kennewick Ave.

What are Flying X Coffee's hours?

Flying X publishes hours of 7am to 5pm Monday through Friday and 8am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday for its shop at 8530 W Gage Blvd STE E. That is a seven day schedule, with only the weekend start moving an hour later, so the Gage Boulevard shop keeps the same afternoon close every day of the week.

Where does Flying X's story begin?

Flying X's own story dates the business to 2015 and a first shop in Connell, a small city of 5,080 residents in the 2023 Census estimates. The story then runs through Pasco before arriving at its Gage Boulevard shop in Kennewick, roughly a decade of history across three cities in this part of eastern Washington.

Is West Richland the same city as Richland?

No. West Richland, with 17,126 residents, is its own city, separate from Richland's 61,912. Swagg's Bombing Range Road room sits in West Richland, while Novel Coffee Co's room at 950 George Washington Way is in Richland proper. Dutch Bros keeps them apart too, with one West Richland stand at 6429 Keene Rd and two Richland stands.

Is Connell part of the Tri Cities?

No. Connell is a separate small city of 5,080 residents, outside Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, and this piece does not treat it as a fourth pole of the metro. It appears here only because Flying X's own story places its first shop there in 2015, before the business reached Pasco and then Gage Boulevard in Kennewick.

How do Swagg and Flying X differ as businesses?

Swagg is defined by spread: three locations in Pasco and West Richland, open from 5am on weekdays, with a food menu of baked goods, burritos and sandwiches. Flying X is defined by its path: a business that began in Connell in 2015 and now keeps one seven day shop at 8530 W Gage Blvd in Kennewick.

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Swagg Coffee Bar runs three locations across Pasco and West Richland from 5am on weekdays. Flying X Coffee holds Gage Boulevard in Kennewick, with a story that starts in Connell in 2015.

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