Journal of Business
Real Estate Roundup
Compiled by Mike McLean / mikem@spokanejournal.com
Boise-based Green Home LLC, a home energy-efficiency improvement contractor, has leased 4,200 square feet of space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, and has opened a branch office there. Chase Breckner of Crown West Realty LLC, handled the transaction.
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SURPRISE, AZ - Petrus Partners Ltd. (“Petrus”), in association with Voyager Investment Properties, LLC (“Voyager”) of Scottsdale, AZ (Mark Voigt and Dave Rogers, Principals), has purchased for $1.44 million 160 acres of residential land planned for a 416-home master planned community called Soleada. The seller was Compass Bank and the closing marked Petrus’ fifth acquisition of bank-owned (REO) residential land in Phoenix since October 2008. James A. Hotis of The Hogan Group represented Petrus while Scott A. Hintze of Nathan & Associates, Inc. acted as the seller’s broker.
Soleada is located at the northeast corner of Lone Mountain Road and 195th Avenue. The parcel lies east of U.S. Route 60 (Grand Avenue) and adjacent to the Sun Haven master planned community’s eastern border and in close
Journal of Business
By Mike McLean
mikem@spokanejournal.com
Freight carrier, cold-food distributor join lessees at big commercial center
SPOKANE, WA- The Spokane Business & Industrial Park has leased space to five new tenants, including a long time Spokane trucking company, a food-products distributor, a manufacturer of specialty moldings, a sheet-metal fabricator, and a concrete polisher, SBIP says.
The long-haul trucking company, Victor Chimienti Inc., has leased 4,800 square feet of space in the park, which is located at 3808 N. Sullivan Road, in Spokane Valley, and has moved there from larger quarters in the Great Northern building near Spokane Falls Boulevard and Hamilton Street. Seattle-based McKinstry Co. recently bought the 52,000-square-foot Great Northern building and plans to consolidate its Spokane operations there.
Victor Chimienti, which is headed by Von
Down to Earth News
By Sandra Hosking
Down to Earth NW Correspondent
BumbleBar improving operations, options this year
SPOKANE VALLEY, WA-After a down year last year, BumbleBar, a nutritional snack-bar maker, is making a bee line toward record revenues this year. In addition, the Spokane Valley company is preparing to launch new products soon.
BumbleBar recently bought new equipment that will help streamline its production process and plans to buy a cartoner, which will package its new line of products - junior-size bars, says Liz Ward, who owns the company with her husband, Glenn. The packs, which are expected to hit the market within the next few months, will be sold in sets of 12, either including one flavor or a variety of flavors.
While original BumbleBars
Journal of Business
By Kim Crompton
kimc@spokanejournal.com
Curtiss and Laura Grenz, who own the 15-year-old business, attract a lot of repeat customers.
SPOKANE, WA-After living and working for a time in northern California, Spokane Valley natives Curtiss and Laura Grenz were eager to return here, and they found a concrete way to do that, literally. They founded a business through which they used an initial handful of molds to begin producing concrete fountains and other items used for yard decorations.
That endeavor has evolved into a 15-year-old company, Concrete Works Statuary Inc., that now employs a total of 12 people - about half of them year-round and the rest seasonally - at a retail location at 205 S. Pines and at a 14,000-square-foot production facility in
Journal of Business
By Kim Crompton
Crown West to expand Lewiston-based company's building at big industrial park
SPOKANE, WA-Precision Machine & Supply Inc., a fabrication and precision machining company based in Lewiston, Idaho, plans roughly to double its space at a repair center it operates in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in Spokane Valley.
Dan Wenstrom, Precision Machine's owner, was out of the country last week and unavailable for comment, and his son, Dana, who operates the Spokane shop, also couldn't be reached for comment. Recently, however, the city of Spokane VAlley issued a notice of determination of nonsignificance in connection with a proposed 15,600-square-foot expansion of the 18,500-square-foot building that Precision Machine leases at 15708 E. Marietta, on the south side of the big industrial
Boulder County Business Report
By Business Report Staff
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BOULDER, CO-CyberSource Corp., an electronic-payment company, has moved into a new office in Boulder and is expanding its staff.
Mountain View, Calif.-based CyberSource, which has an office in Boulder, moved its local campus to 5775 Flatiron Parkway, Suite 230, in Flatiron Park business park.
Company spokesman Bruce Frymire said CyberSource has been hiring at all of its locations despite the recession.
Right now the company, which provides online-payment processing, risk management and security for businesses accepting online credit card payments, has about five employees locally and more than 600 companywide.
The company is planning to hire in Boulder a development manager, operations manager, solutions architect, project manager, payments consultant, customer support analyst and payment-data security analyst.
Journal of Business
By Mike McLean
Spokane Valley-made product lines to be sold throughout the Northwest. Coeur d'Alene Window Co. is located in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and initially will employ 10 people.
SPOKANE, WA-McVay Brothers Inc. is getting back into the window-making business, says Mike McVay, the company's owner and president.
The longtime Spokane Valley supplier and installer of windows, siding, roofing, and gutters planned to start production this week at its new subsidiary, Coeur d'Alene Window Co., McVay says. The new window manufacturing plant is located in 16,000 square feet of leased space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan.
McVay Brothers sold its original window manufacturing division to Liberty Lake-based Window Products Inc. in 2004. Window Products later changed
by Bert Caldwell
Here's the Dirt Weekly Report
The Spokesman Review
Another company has taken space insde the industrial park. McVay Brothers Contractors, Inc., doing business as Coeur d'Alene Window Company, has leased 16,000 square feet inside Building 18.
The company makes windows and patio doors.
by Bert Caldwell
Here's the Dirt Weekly Report
The Spokesman Review
Spokane Valley manufacturer Sterling International is leasing 32,000 square feet in Building 16 of the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, 3808 N. Sullivan Road.
The company, which makes insecticide-free bug traps and insect prevention systmes - already uses part of the same building for offices.
A Sterling spokesperson said the added space will store finished products.