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Industrial park will build new distribution center

July 29, 2011
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By Tom Sowa / toms@spokesman.com, (509)459-5492

One of the nation's largest tire distributors will lease a 110,000-square-foot warehouse that will be constructed inside the Spokane Business & Industrial Park.

American Tire Distributors, based in Huntersville, N.C., will move into the building at 15530 E. Euclid Ave. sometime next year.

The land, at Sullivan and Euclid, is owned by Crown West Realty, which also manages the business park in Spokane Valley.

American Tire has signed a 12-year lease on the property. Developing and building the 30-foot-tall warehouse will run more than $7 million, said Dean Stuart, marketing and sales director for Crown West.

One building at the site is being demolished to prepare for construction, Stuart said.

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The Spokane Business & Industrial Park says it recently has leased a total of more than 200,000 square feet of floor space to seven new tenants, including manufacturers and companies that service them, and companies that need new distribution centers.

The new leases will bring the occupancy rate at the roughly 5 million-square-foot complex to 91 percent, says Dean Stuart, the SBIP's marketing director.

"The amount of square footage of new deals so far this year will exceeds all of last year," Stuart says.

Of the new tenants, manufacturers are taking the largest spaces, he says.

"Manufacturers seem to be turning the corner and gearing up for better times ahead," Stuart says.

One new tenant, Haakon Industries Inc., a Richmond, British Columbia-based heating, ventilation, and

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Waterglider, LLC. has leased approximately 4,000 square feet of space in Building #12 of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3808 N. Sullivan Road, Spokane Valley. Their primary business is distribution of books and toys.

Oregon Metal Slitters has leased approximately 40,000 square feet of space in Building #27 of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3808 N. Sullivan Road, Spokane Valley. Their primary business is steel processing and distribution.

Pyrotek Incorporated has leased approximately 40,000 square feet of space in Building #27 of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3808 N. Sullivan Road, Spokane Valley. Their primary business is manufacturing.

Townshend Cellar, Inc. has leased approximately 12,000 square feet of space in Building #1

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Marquez, Inc., doing business as Oregon Tile & Marble, is leasing 15,750 square feet at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, 3808 N. Sullivan Road. It's a wholesale distributor of stone, ceramic tile and related products.

Haakon Industries Inc. is leasing 40,000 square feet in another building at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park. The company provides custom HVAC systems.

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Snack maker projects it will boost production by up to 500,000 bars a year.

SPOKANE, WA-BumbleBar Inc., a Spokane Valley-based manufacturer of gluten-free snack bars, has landed another sizable contract to create products under a private-label agreement with an undisclosed company.

BumbleBar founder and co-owner Liz Ward says the company has signed a nondisclosure agreement with the company that prevents her from divulging its name. She says, however, that once BmbleBar is in full production with that contract and another private-label contract it secured last year, it will be making between 300,000 and 500,000 additional bars annually. Currently, the company manufactures about 2 million BumbleBars a year.

"Later this year, we'd anticipate hiring more employees," she says, adding that the company

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RANDL Industries Inc., a Spokane Valley maker of sheet-metal components for electrical boxes, has leased 6,000 square feet of floor space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, and moved there from smaller quarters at 9618 E. First. Dean Stuart, of Crown West Realty LLC, handled the transaction.

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In the true spirit of industriousness, the Habitat for Humanity retail store is moving to a new site in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park.

The 32,000-square-foot venue at 3808 N. Sullivan Road in Spokane Valley will represent the merging of Habitat's store at Trent Avenue near the Gonzaga University campus and a Spokane Valley location at Sprague and Bowdish that opened in December 2008. The upgraded facility - which will still feature the same variety of building surplus materials, household items, antiques and knickknacks - is scheduled to open April 1.

"This is a clean, bright building and it's new," said Gary Ragsdale, Habitat store manager. "we're getting feedback from people who say they wouldn't go

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RALEIGH, NC - Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated today announced it will open a new sales and distribution center in the Carolinas Distribution Center in Clayton. The 233,000 square foot replaces the company's existing 90,000 square foot building on South Wilmington Street.

"We are very pleased to be expanding our operations in the Raleigh market, more than doubling the size of our distribution center to better serve our customers in the Triangle," said Lauren Steele, Coca-Cola Consolidated spokesman.

The new sales and distribution center will serve the company's customers in Wake, Johnston, Franklin, Harnett, Orange and Chatham counties. All of the company's 184 local employees will move to the new facility.

The existing Raleigh Coca-Cola facility in South Raleigh was built in 1957 as a production and distribution

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Zome Design LLC, an apparel screen-printing and embroidery company, has leased 8,000 square feet of floor space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, and has moved its production operations there from smaller quarters at 1821 W. Fifth. Chase Breckner of Crown West Realty, and Erik Nelson, of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the lease.

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Zome Design, LLC, a silk screen company, has leased approximately 8,000 square feet of space in Building #3 of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan Road in the Spokane Valley. The business, owned by Brayden Jessen, offers screen-printing, embroidery, tackle-twill and more.They can print from one garment to one hundred thousand. Zome Design also specializes in web solutions offering design and development, hosting, e-commerce and search engine optimization. Zome Design's phone number is 509-279-2034. The Website is zomedesign.com. The lease activity was completed by Chase Breckner, marketing specialist at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and Erik Nelson of Kiemle & Hagood Company.