A new 21-acre industrial park is being proposed along Sullivan Road in the Spokane Valley, adding to recent and envisioned development activity along that burgeoning north-south arterial.


Bob Bonuccelli, of Village Square Realty Inc., is seeking Spokane Countys approval of a preliminary binding site plan for the park, which would be located on the west side of Sullivan, across the road from the southern portion of the huge 405-acre Spokane Business & Industrial Park.


The new industrial park would be divided into 10 lots, which would be leased to long-term tenants that would construct their own buildings on them, according to documents being reviewed by the building and planning division of the countys public works department. The park eventually could be home to as many as 500 workers, the documents estimate.


Half of the parks lots would have frontage along Sullivan Road. The development also would be served by a westward extension of Marietta Avenue, which would end in a culdesac near the middle of the industrial park site and provide access to the inner lots. The site on which the park would be located already is zoned for heavy-industrial use, so a zone change isnt needed.


Documents filed at the county say that infrastructure improvements at the site would take about a year to complete. The construction of buildings by park tenants would occur in following years as the lots are leased.


Bonuccelli, who the documents say owns the property, declines to comment on the site plan until the county approves it, so it isnt known whether he has any prospective tenants lined up for the industrial park.


The park would be at least the third industrial-commercial development project launched along the northern stretch of the Sullivan corridor in the last two years. Crown West Realty LLC, which owns the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, last year began developing a 21-acre, mixed-use commerce center called Crown Centre near the parks main entrance, and later announced plans to develop an 82-acre vacant area on the north end of the park, which it said would be called Spokane Industrial Park North.


At Crown Centre, which will have an estimated $20 million total cost, Crown West has built a 105,000-square-foot, multitenant industrial building. A 59-room Country Inns & Suites by Carlson hotel, a McDonalds restaurant, and a Maid oClover convenience store and gas station also have opened there within the last several months.


Crown Centre is expected eventually to include more than 400,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, commercial, industrial, and office space, counting several other new buildings that are envisioned as part of a second phase of the development.


At Spokane Industrial Park North, for which estimated development costs werent disclosed, plans call for 28 lots varying in size from two to four acres each. Crown West sold 10 of the lots to Inland Empire Distribution Systems Inc., a Spokane company that provides warehousing and other distribution help to manufacturers and distributors. That company said it plans to build a large warehouse facility there within a couple of years. Crown West said it expects the remaining 18 lots in the new development to be occupied by a mix of industrial, distribution, manufacturing, or warehouse users.


Separate from those developments, of course, is the 210-acre Sullivan Park Center retail development located south of the industrial area, on the west side of Sullivan between the Spokane River and Interstate 90.


That development includes the year-old Spokane Valley Mall and adjoining commercial areas owned by Spokane-based Hanson Industries. Rapid traffic growth there has led to accelerated, but still unfinished efforts to raise funds for construction of a proposed I-90 interchange at Evergreen Road, west of the shopping center.