Paras General Contractors Inc., of Spokane, has landed a contract to build a $6 million, 155,000-square-foot plant building at Liberty Lake for Accra-Fab Inc., the Spokane-based precision sheet metal fabricator.


Tina Paras, spokeswoman for Paras General Contractors, says the company expects to break ground on the structure in July and to complete the building in May 2001.


The owners of Accra-Fab, Don Hemmer and Greg Konkol, who will own the structure, disclosed plans also for the building about two months ago. It will be built along Appleway Avenue in the Liberty Lake Center development.


The single-story facility will be a concrete tilt-up structure with metal roof accents, says Russ Wolfe, an architect with Wolfe-Ballantyne Studio Architects, the Spokane firm thats designing the facility. As currently envisioned, it will have about 140,000 square feet of manufacturing space and about 15,000 square feet of office space, he says.


The building initially was expected to include 150,000 square feet of space, but since then has been expanded slightly, Wolfe says.


Hemmer and Konkol have formed a company called Elk Creek Investments LLC to buy nearly 23.5 acres of land at the northeast corner of Appleway and Madson Road, where they will develop the new facility.


As reported previously, plans call for a second, similar-sized structure for Accra-Fab at that site eventually. The second building would be built just west of the first structure, Wolfe says.


Accra-Fab, a 20-year-old company with 325 employees in Spokane and another 70 workers at a Vancouver, Wash., plant, currently occupies an 80,000-square-foot production facility in the Liberty Lake area, at 1611 N. Molter, and a nearby 14,000-square-foot space.