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By Mike McLean
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ACM supplies, services equipment parts, valves

SPOKANE, WA- Advanced Concepts in Manufacturing LLC, a young Spokane Valley manufacturing equipment service and supply company, has grown fourfold since its first year of operation and expects that growth to continue as the economy improves, says Eric Wellington, vice president and principal in the company.

The company's main focus is repair and maintenance of hydraulic valves, although it's also a distributor for California-based Woodard HRT Inc., which is one of a few U.S. manufacturers of servo valves, which are common components in automated manufacturing equipment.

ACM also distributes industrial-grade TCP Wire & Cable Corp. products and fabricates custom cable systems.

In addition to service and repairs, ACM can design entire hydraulic systems, including

Spokane Valley, WA – Crown West Realty is pleased to announce the completion of a 15-year lease with Core-Mark International, Inc. for a 50,000 square foot expansion to their current distribution center within the Spokane Business & Industrial Park (The Park). When finished, the high bay, concrete-tilt building will total 150,000 square feet. Vandervert Construction has been selected as the contractor and is expected to complete the multi-million dollar project in the fourth quarter of 2014. Dean Stuart, Crown West Realty’s Director of Marketing and Sales completed the deal.

Core-Mark International, Inc. distributes food, beverages, general merchandise, and sundries to supermarkets, grocery and convenience stores.

Owned and managed by Crown West Realty, The Park is one of the region’s largest employment centers with over 120 resident

Journal of Business - Real Estate Roundup

By Mike McLean
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SPOKANE, WA- Ritchie Trucking Service Inc., of Fresno, Calif., has leased 9,600 square feet of warehouse and distribution space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan. Chase Breckner, of Crown West Realty LLC, handled the transaction.

CBC Moving Inc., a Portland-based moving and delivery service, has leased 4,000 square feet of space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park for a new Spokane-area outlet. Chase Breckner, of Crown West Realty LLC, handled the transaction.

Wolf Home Operations Inc., a Spokane Valley furniture and appliance delivery service, has leased 4,000 square feet of floor space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and has moved there from smaller space elsewhere in SBIP. Chase Breckner

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Four new companies have moved into buildings at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3808 N. Sullivan Road.

Allwest Testing & Engineering, which provides materials testing and geotechnical engineering, is leasing 5,000 square feet of space.

Ritchie Trucking Service Inc. has leased 9,600 square feet of space. It provides warehousing and transporation services.

CBC Moving, a commercial moving and delivery company, is leasing roughly 4,000 square feet of space.

Wolf Home Operations Inc. is leasing 4,000 square feet. It delivers furniture and appliances.

Journal of Business
By Katie Ross
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Lambie uses ‘right-sized’ technology, robotics to streamline processes

SPOKANE, WA- Lambie Engineering LLC, of Spokane Valley, is hoping to revolutionize the way companies fabricate parts through the concept of lean manufacturing.

One of the tenets of lean manufacturing, says Lambie Engineering President and owner Ken Lambie, involves using specially-engineered equipment to make only as many parts as are needed to meet short-term customer demand, thereby reducing waste and making product flow more effective.

“We make machines that make product at what the demand is,” Lambie says. “In the lean community it’s called ‘right-sized’ equipment.”

Lambie Engineering, he says, makes machines that are smaller, produce fewer parts, or run at a slower pace so that companies can

by Bert Caldwell
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Lambie Engineering, LLC has leased approximately 1,250 square feet of space in Building S6 in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3020 N. Sullivan Road in Spokane Valley.

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The company provides engineering and machine assembly services.

It moved from a previous Spokane Valley location, to take advantage of shop space in the park. The firm has four full time employees.

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Two new businesses are leasing space at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park in Spokane Valley.

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Motorsports warehousing and transport company, KGM Assemblers Inc., is taking 12,000 square feet in the industrial park.

Also, Sandvik Mining and Construction USA LLC is leaing roughly 20,000 square feet. Sandvik, a global company, makes and sells a wide range of mining equipment and industrial matierials.

Journal of Business

By Mike McLean
mikem@spokanejournal.com
Occupancy, revenues ascend, although still beneath 2005 levels

SPOKANE, WA- The Spokane Business & Industrial Park has seen its occupancy rate and revenues slowly improve over the last few years, although both measures have some ground to make up to reach prerecession levels, says Dean Stuart, director of marketing for Crown West Realty LLC, of Spokane Valley, which owns the 615-acre facility.

SBIP, headquartered at 3808 N. Sullivan, has a total of 5 million square feet of leaseable space in about 50 buildings. The Park currently has about 125 tenants.

"Given the economic climate we've had for the last six years, the occupancy rate is quite good at 91 percent," Stuart says.

Recent new tenants include Haywood, Calif.-based Coast Aluminum & Architectural

Journal of Business

By Jessica Valencia
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Spokane Industries sees employment hold steady after sizeable jump last year

SPOKANE, WA- Spokane Industries Inc., a castings and metal fabricated products manufacturer recently installed a sizeable air filtration upgrade at one of its divisions, after expanding into available vacant space at its expansive quarters in Spokane Valley.

Spokane Industries occupies portions of three buildings in the northeast corner of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan. The 250,000-square-foot facility is served by rail cars and big rigs that carry away finished products and also feed thousands of pounds of scrap metal into furnaces that will eventually turn the loads into molten metal.

The company, which operates three manufacturing divisions, employs about 300 people, says company spokesman Richard

Journal of Business

By Mike McLean
mikem@spokanejournal.com
Absco Alarms anticipates continued growth as it debuts second outlet here

SPOKANE, WA- Absco Alarms Inc., a Lynnwood, Wash.-based supplier of security surveillance systems, has leased 1,600 square feet of space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park at 3020 N. Sullivan, in Spokane Valley, where it has opened a Spokane sales and installation outlet says Erick Slabaugh, Absco's CEO.

The company specializes in providing security systems for commercial, industrial, and government campus applications, Slabaugh says.

"We've done work in Spokane over the years, although we haven't had a physical presence in Spokane," he says.

Dean Stuart, director of marketing with the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, and Sam Morse, of the Spokane commercial real estate brokerage Cantu Commercial Properties LLC, negotiated