Two brothers have bought a 3.5-acre parcel near Esmeralda Golf Course in the Hillyard neighborhood and plan to build separate buildings there for their respective businesses.


The brothers, Dan and Terry McDonald, say construction on their two buildings, which will be located on a parcel at 4400 N. Freya, near the Esmeralda Golf Course, should get under way this summer.


Dan McDonald owns MRS Metal Roofing & Siding Supply Inc., which operates as MRS Metal Rollforming Systems and currently is located in Mead. McDonald says he plans to construct a 24,000-square-foot building on the 2.5 acres of land he and his brother bought jointly, and to move Metal Rollforming Systems manufacturing operations there when his building project is completed, which he says he hopes would be early in the fall.


He says hell then use the companys current, 20,000-square-foot quarters, at 13906 N. Newport Highway, for administrative offices and research and development. McDonald plans to hire five or six additional employees after the project is completed.


Metal Rollforming Systems, which makes equipment that flattens and forms rolls of steel into panels that are used as steel siding, employs 30 workers, he says. He declines to disclose Metal Rollforming Systems annual revenues, but says the new facility will cost about $1.2 million.


The company that Terry McDonald owns, Pro Builders, a steel building construction company, currently is located in a 6,000-square-foot leased space at 3901 E. Wellesley. It will occupy a new, 10,000-square-foot building on one acre of the property on Freya, he says.


Four people work for the Pro Builders, and McDonald says he likely will hire one additional employee after the move.


Pro Builders has annual sales of about $2.5 million, he says. McDonald says he doesnt know yet what his new building will cost.


Pro Builders will build both structures, which Spokane architect Ron Labar is designing, Terry McDonald says.


The brothers for some time have planned to build facilities near each other, they say. They each also own adjoining property near the Deer Park Airport, and earlier had planned to build the structures there.


The access road to that property, however, has been subject to emergency weight restrictions several winters in a row, which Dan McDonald says would harm his business if he moved his manufacturing facility there.


Joe Tortorelli, an economic-development consultant to the city of Deer Park, says the city intends to replace the road with an all-weather road, and is seeking grants to help pay for $7.5 million in infrastructure improvements there including road, water, and sewer upgrades.


Dan McDonald says he and Terry decided they didnt want to wait to move forward with their planned projects, but plan to retain their Deer Park property for possible future expansion.


We both wanted to get this done this summer, Dan McDonald says.


Contact Jeanne Gustafson at (509) 344-1264 or via e-mail at jeanneg@spokanejournal.com.