Ricks Custom Fencing & Decking Inc., a Hillsboro, Ore.-based company that claims to be one of the Northwests largest retailers of fencing and decking products, plans to develop a store on the West Plains that would be its seventh overall.


The company executive most familiar with project details couldnt be reached immediately for comment. Other company and real estate sources, however, confirmed that the store is to be constructed on a 9-acre piece of land at the northwest corner of Geiger Boulevard and Soda Road that company owners Rick and Marlene Stanley bought last year. The development site is at due south of Spokane International Airport and includes frontage along Interstate 90.


Information wasnt available on the expected size of the store, who will construct it, the estimated cost of the project, when the store is expected to open, or how many people the store will employ.


Ricks Custom Fencing & Decking designs and sells cedar and composite decking, various types of fencing, pergolas, patio covers, gazebos, arbors, and other related products, and buys its materials directly from lumber mills and manufacturing plants, according to its Web site. The company caters both to residential and commercial customers, and offers customers a range of pickup, delivery, and installation options, depending on what amount of work the customers want to do themselves.


The companys other stores are located in Hillsboro, Gresham, Salem, and Bend, Ore., and Vancouver and Kennewick, Wash. It opened the Tri-Cities storeits newest outletlast May. The Stanleys founded the company in 1980.


Carlos Herrera, of NAI Black, of Spokane, represented the Stanleys in the purchase of the land on the West Plains, and Dick Edwards and Pete Thompson, both of Hawkins Edwards Inc., of Spokane, were the listing agents for the property.


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