The Dirt: R’nR RV will move into shuttered Fred Meyer on East Francis

The former Fred Meyer store on East Francis Avenue has sold for $3.9 million to open as a future R’nR RV superstore.

R’nR RV, a Liberty Lake-based business owned by Ray and Jo Bunney, will move its Airway Heights outlet to the north Spokane site at 525 E. Francis Ave. A sales division will open this week as part of a 100,000-square-foot indoor showroom.

After construction, R’nR RV also will open a 16-bay service department and a parts and accessories store at the new site.

The building has 138,000 square feet, roughly 3 acres, said Jerry Wagner, R’nR RV general manager. This facility will service north Spokane customers who previously traveled to the Liberty Lake headquarters, which has 40 service bays and a showroom at 23203 E. Knox Ave. The business also has a Lewiston outlet.

Fred Meyer closed its East Francis store early 2013, and the property sat empty. In late April, SMS Associates sold it to BW Investment Properties LLC, of Liberty Lake, a property management company with the Bunneys and Wagner as partners.

Document shredder opens Spokane site

Iron Mountain Inc., a Boston-based company, has opened a 40,000-square-foot facility in Spokane for record storage, secure shredding and document imaging.

Its Spokane location opened Thursday at 4330 S. Grove Road. The facility will have storage capacity of 416,000 cubic feet, with on-site imaging and information destruction services geared to businesses in the greater Spokane area.

The company has 1,350 such facilities globally.

Globe Bar owner leases downtown lot

MJR Entertainment, the same business entity that owns Globe Bar & Kitchen and Blind Buck in Spokane, has leased a nearby empty lot at 200 N. Division St.

The 7,100-square-foot lot, owned by Douglass Properties, is at the corner of Main Avenue and Division, angled across from the Globe, at 204 N. Division. Operators of the Globe and Blind Buck expect to landscape but haven’t finalized any other plans.

Chris Bell, of Black Commercial, and Sam Morse, of Cantu Commercial Properties, handled the transaction.

Fencing firm leases space on Wellesley

All 4 Fencing, of Spokane, has leased a 2,400-square-foot warehouse and yard space at 3627 E. Wellesley Ave.

Doug Byrd, of Byrd Real Estate Group LLC, and Jim Orcutt, of Black Commercial, were the agents involved in the transaction.