Mackay Manufacturing Expanding Valley Facility

If you’ve ever had orthoscopic surgery - say on a bum knee or a rotator cuff - you may have seen doctors use a medical instrument made by MacKay Manufacturing in the Spokane Valley.

The growing company, which also manufactures mechanical components for the electronics industry that you’ll probably never see, is expanding its plant at 10011 E. Montgomery.

Construction on the 10,000-square-foot addition began this summer and is expected to be finished by September, said Mike MacKay, who owns the business with his wife, Debra. The expansion will cost about $2 million.

MacKay said the business has grown steadily since 1986, when they purchased the company, and contracts have surged recently with the rebound in Asian markets.

“Over the last six months we’ve seen a dramatic increase,” MacKay said.

MacKay Manufacturing employs about 80 people, including 12 who were added since the first of the year. MacKay said they expect to have a staff of about 100 within the next two or three years.

Its key customers include Agilent Technologies, BF Goodrich, Hewlett Packard and Siemens. MacKay Manufacturing’s annual sales top $10 million.

When the addition is finished, MacKay Manufacturing will have about 28,000 square feet of work space, MacKay said.

Horizon Furniture moving

Three years after opening in the Spokane Industrial Park, Horizon Furniture is moving - to a new space in the industrial park.

“We’ve just signed a lease on a new building just down the street from where we are,” said Doug Johnson, who owns the business with his brother Paul.

The brothers bought the furniture store about three years ago and were just operating with a month-to-month lease. Johnson said they have signed a five-year lease on the new store, at 3808 N. Sullivan.

It will be about the same size, with 16,000 feet of floor space, but it’s a newer building, Johnson said.

Horizon used to manufacture furniture, but now the store specializes in selling discounted bedroom sets, sofas, dining room sets and other furnishings.

Johnson said they are having a close-out sale so they don’t have to move too much merchandise. Anything left will be trucked to the new store, which will open on August 1.

Teena’s offers names at thrift prices

Old Navy. Gap. Abercrombie and Fitch. Ralph Lauren. Tommy Hilfiger.

Step into Teena’s Clothes Closet and you’ll find all these brand names and more. But you’ll be surprised at the prices.

Teena Dial buys used and new women’s and junior’s clothing, and sells it at thrift store prices.

“When my daughter was in high school she wanted to have Gap and she wanted to have all those brand names, but it was so expensive,” she said. “For young kids to wear the name brands is a big issue.”

Since then, Dial has wanted to open a second-hand store devoted to the trendy clothing. After a year of collecting clothing from her daughter and friends, Dial this spring opened Teena’s at 11812 E. Sprague.

Eventually Dial hopes to expand the store to include men’s clothing as well.