Jack and Mary Green, of Spokane, have bought a 3,500-square-foot, single-story retail building at 4915 N. Market, in the Hillyard community, where they plan to open Green’s Fresh Market this month.

The store initially will be a produce market, selling locally sourced vegetables and fruits when in season, says Jack Green.

“As the business grows, we plan on putting in a fresh deli,” Green says, adding, “We’d like eventually to do fresh meat and whatever the market demands beyond that.”

He says he’ll run the store by himself at first, but hopes to build the staff up to five employees.

Green says he has about 40 years of experience in produce, beginning with a produce-delivery business he and his brother started after high school.

He also has operated produce markets in Spokane, including Champion Produce in the early 1980s and later Green’s Quality Produce, which was renamed Piccolo’s Market.

Green says he sold Piccolo’s to Cassano’s Grocery LLC, another specialty grocer, in 2009 and continued to work there until last year.

The Green’s Fresh Market store site is in the former site of Hillyard Gardens & Bistro, which opened in 2015. Before that, it was the longtime location of Hillyard Florist.

“The business end is its own little town. Everyone knows everyone and supports everyone,” he says. “Hillyard is on the verge of revitalization. I feel it’s something up and coming.”

Commercial real estate broker Jim Orcutt, of Spokane-based NAI Black, was the listing agent for the transaction.

Retail & Warehouse 

Norco Medical, the medical equipment and oxygen supplier associated with Boise-based Norco Inc., has leased 2,000 square feet of space for a new outlet in the Ironwood Square retail center, at 206 W. Ironwood Drive, in Coeur d’Alene. Chad Carper, Colin Conway, and Casey Brazil, all of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction.

Home Water Solutions LLC, a Loveland, Colo.-based supplier and installer of water filtration and conditioning systems, leased 3,600 square feet of office and warehouse space at 11350 N. Government Way, for its Inland Northwest operations. Craig Hunter and Rob Kannapien, both of Coldwell Banker Commercial Schneidmiller Realty, handled the transaction.

Office

Alpine Family Medicine PLLC, a new medical practice, has leased 1,500 square feet of office space at 1013 Lake, in Sandpoint. Chris Schreiber, of Kiemle & Hagood Co., and Charesse Moore, of Evergreen Realty, handled the transaction.

Storage

Jay Rambo, of Spokane, has bought three parcels of land totaling 3.65 acres at and adjacent to 1705 N. Wilbur Road, where he plans to develop a 225-unit self-storage facility tentatively named Wilbur Road Mini Storage. Mike King, formerly of NAI Black, and Marshall Clark, of Clark Pacific Real Estate Co., handled the transaction.

Investment & Development

The Central Valley School District has bought 42 acres of land at the southwest corner of Country Vista Drive and Henry Road for a potential school site. Jim Quigley and Mike Livingston, both of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction.

Hovde Orchards LLC, of Ephrata, has bought as an investment the Vista Industrial Park, which includes 95,000 square feet of industrial space, on 10 acres of land at 111 N. Vista. Casey Brazil, of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction.

Nonprofit

Real Life Ministries, an evangelical Christian church, has bought a 4,300-square-foot church building at 1827 E. Pacific for central support services for its Spokane-area churches. Doug Byrd and Sharon Reynolds, both of Byrd Real Estate Group LLC, handled the transaction.