Rings & Things, the Spokane-based bead and jewelry-component wholesaler, plans to move to a building east of downtown that its owners recently bought from Pacific Wholesale Florist Inc.


The 31-year-old wholesaler plans to remodel the 40,000-square-foot building at 304 E. Second and move there by early next year, says Polly Nobbs-LaRue, Rings & Things marketing manager.


Pacific Wholesale Florist, a Spokane-based company that supplies cut flowers, greenery, and other flower-related products to retailers in Eastern Washington, North Idaho, Montana, and Northeastern Oregon, plans to move to a new location here this summer, says Anne Betow, of Tomlinson Black Commercial Inc., who was involved in the sale.


Pacifics owner, Darrell Weiland, couldnt be reached for comment. He and a family member recently bought a 40,000-square-foot building at 1805 E. Trent, says Betow.


Russ Nobbs and Dee Mueller, who own Rings & Things, bought the building through an affiliated company, called Rutabaga LLC, says Kitty Archer, who owns Archer Realty, of Spokane, and who was involved in the sale.


Rings & Things, which employs about 70 people, currently leases 16,000 square feet of floor space in the Bon-Macys building downtown. It will start remodeling the two-story Wholesale Florist structure this summer and will move after Christmas, says Nobbs-LaRue, who is the daughter of Nobbs and Mueller.


Well have twice the space that we have now, and we will have no trouble filling it up, she says.


Nobbs-LaRue says she doesnt know the cost of the remodeling project or who will do the work yet.


Rings & Things started as a craft shop that sold earrings in Second City, an incubator for creative businesses that thrived here in the 1970s. The company had a retail store in the River Park Square retail center for several years.


Rings & Things has about 40,000 clients worldwide.