Crow buys old winery, plans buildings

Spokane business owner John Crow plans to build three industrial buildings on the site of a former West Plains winery he recently purchased.

Crow, who owns pizza pan maker Lloyd Industries , earlier this month paid $300,000 for the former Worden Winery, 7217 W. Westbow Blvd. , through a limited-liability company. He intends to temporary rent out the warehouse and log cabin tasting room, then demolish those structures to build two 40,000-square-foot buildings and one 20,000-square-foot building.

Lloyd Industries, which currently leases space at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park , might occupy one of the structures, Crow said. The 5.5-acre property fronts Interstate 90.

Plans call for starting the first building next spring and finishing it by the end of summer, and completing the other two in 2010, said Mark McLees, a sales and leasing agent with NAI Black who represented Crow in the transaction.