 The new interchange and bridges across the Yakima and Naches rivers were completed in December 1998, extending SR 823 by .The state legislature allocated $9.3 million from its new gas tax in 2005 to build a truck bypass of downtown Selah that would be incorporated into SR 823.The bypass was constructed as an extension of South Wenas Avenue and eliminated a pair of sharp turns to and from a one-block section of Naches Avenue.