Expansion plans announced three years ago are proceeding at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, which is located near the intersection of Freya and Trent.


Two buildings, one which will include about 28,300 square feet of floor space and another which will include nearly 16,300 square feet of space, now are under construction by Spokane-based Leone & Keeble Inc., the general contractor on the projects.


Rocky Rothrock, manager and leasing agent for the property, says a third, 30,000-square-foot building could start going up just north of the smaller of the two new buildings soon. To build all three structures is expected to cost about $2 million, he says. Chimney Rock already has two buildings that each have 72,500 square feet of space.


Rothrock said in 1997 that the industrial parks Bellevue, Wash.-based owners, Curtis and Mary Lindley, planned to develop three new buildings there.


The larger of the two new buildings is being constructed between the two older buildings at the industrial park. A portion of that new buildingabout 15,100 square feetwill be occupied by the Spokane office of Minneapolis-based Vincent Metal Goods, a stainless steel and aluminum wholesaler, Rothrock says.


Jon Todd, general manager of Vincents Spokane office, says the company plans to use about 1,000 square feet of its space in the new building for administrative offices, while the rest will be used to store between $500,000 and $1 million worth of stainless steel and aluminum. Vincent Metal Goods sells the material to customers, that turn them into products for end users.


Vincent Metal Goods will move there from its current leased quarters at 732 N. Helena, Todd says.


The company, which employs 13 people here, has outgrown its current 9,500-square-foot location.


Matthew Byrd, of the Byrd Group, represented Vincent Metal Goods in the lease transaction, while Rothrock represented the parks owners.


Rothrock says he currently is working to secure a tenant for the rest of the first building, as well as firm up lease details for the smaller of the two new buildings, which is being built just east of a building that formerly housed a Michaels Store Inc. outlet. He declines to name either tenant yet.