Project Profiles

Since 1981, we’ve made the move with thousands of businesses and families and played an important role in operating seamless transitions.

  • July of 2014- Bing Crosby Collection 


    Gonzaga University decided to relocate

    the Bing Crosby Memorabilia from a

    private display room of the Crosby

    Student Center to its new location now

    at the remodeled Crosby House on

    Campus. DeVries packed with white

    gloves and moved the collection and

    was proud to be selected as their

    moving company.  This collection was

    donated by the Crosby family to not

    only honor Bing, but to share his life

    story with the University where he

    attended.  This collection was

    comprised of posters of all his movies

    he made, pictures of the US tours

    during WWII with other celebrities, gold

    records from his famous songs, his pipe,

    and his Oscar Award he received.

  • In May of 2016 we entered into a

    five year contract with Washington

    State University to provide

    relocation services for their football

    program.



    We are responsible for

    transporting all of the equipment to

    the five away games in the

    2016 -2017 football season as well

    as any championship and Bowl

    games. We will provide the

    equipment and drivers that will be

    responsible for meeting tight

    delivery timelines as well as

    assisting in setting up the visiting

    team locker rooms and sideline

    activities. We also had the trailer

    entirely wrapped in WSU logos and

    designs and we are looking

    forward to our partnership with

    Washington State University.

  • January 2012 through March of

    2012 - we moved Servatron from

    their 62,000 square foot location

    on Euclid, to their new larger

    facility on Mirabeau Parkway in the

    Spokane Valley.  Servatron has a

    long history of manufacturing,

    cable assembly, electronic repair

    and quality finished goods. 


    With over 175 employees contents,

    modular furniture, computers,

    racking, milling machines,

    4 - Copper Lindgren Enclosures

    and 3 – 60 foot washer lines, this

    two month move was

    accomplished with over 1750 man

    hours, and 550 truck hours on time

    and on budget.

  • In February of 2010, we started a two

    phase remodel project for Worksource

    in Spokane WA.  This consisted of

    relocating 125 personnel in stages and

    for reconstruction and improvements of

    their existing offices, painting and

    re-carpeting of their entire building,

    then coordinating the transportation of

    5 semi loads of excess product back to

    Olympia to finish the project.  

  • In August of 2016 we consolidated and

    relocated two separate locations in

    Newport, WA of the new Newport

    Hospital and Health Services building.

    This move was completed over two

    separate weekends to accommodate

    patients and minimize disruptions to the

    hospital personnel. Through proper

    planning and a coordinated effort with

    hospital staff they were able to continue

    operations throughout the moving

    process. We moved over 140 staff

    including doctor’s offices and medical

    equipment to their new hospital

    location.

  • Also in September of 2006, DeVries

    completed it’s third relocation of the

    offices of Teck Cominco American

    Incorporated Corporate. This move was

    from the Spokane Valley location to

    their new offices in downtown

    Spokane.  Construction of the new

    offices was not completed by the date

    scheduled for their move, so the

    DeVries project manager worked

    closely with Teck Cominco to make sure

    that their needs and requirements were

    taken care of, in order to stay

    operational during the relocation. 



    At the same time, we were moving the

    offices downtown, we loaded three 53

    foot air ride vans of furniture, shelving

    and equipment from the Spokane Valley

    facility to Reno, Nevada, where a new

    office was being set up. DeVries flew

    our own lead installation technician

    from Spokane to Reno to help unpack,

    reassemble shelving, and furniture, so

    that the office could be functional

    and back in operation as soon as

    possible.

  • January 2016 – Relocation and shuffle

    of 5 schools in this overcrowded school

    district.  This began with moving the

    Early Learning Center and Barker

    School into a recently remodeled Yokes

    (grocery store) now called Mica Peak

    School.  Evergreen went to the old

    Barker location, Summit School went to

    the Early Learning Center and Chester

    Elementary went to the old Summit. 

    This shuffling now leaves Evergreen

    and Chester vacant for remodeling. The

    Requirement was to move one school a

    weekend for 5 consecutive weekends

    of which the start and finish time had to

    be done over a 48 hour weekend.  This

    was moving class rooms, music rooms,

    sport equipment, cafeteria fixtures,

    libraries, and outside storage buildings. 



    Central Valley School District completed

    construction of two new high schools in

    the summer of 2002.  We were awarded

    the contract and proceeded to move

    everything out of the 2 old high schools

    (Central Valley and University High) to

    make way for a new parking lot at the

    new CVHS and the consolidation of

    Adams and McDonald elementary

    schools into the old University High

    school.

  • In the years of 1999, 2000, 2001,

    Albertson’s Inc. grew by acquisition of a

    few different grocery store chains

    through out the county. The facilities

    department in Boise, ID, was

    responsible for many store remodels

    and upgrades during this time.




    Old racking, freezer cases, shelving,

    bakery, meat dept, deli dept.

    equipment/fixtures all had to be

    removed and stored quickly for

    contractor trades to complete

    remodels.  As the old equipment was

    removed, new equipment and fixtures

    were ordered and shipped to the

    various locations.  DeVries was

    responsible for the asset management

    of the old fixtures that were put into

    storage and the receiving in of new

    fixtures for delivery out as needed. 


    We selected 16 different warehouses

    within the Atlas agency net work that

    picked up fixtures from stores, received

    in new fixtures, and stored both used

    and new fixtures and coordinated

    deliveries of new fixtures with local

    contractors.  Items going into storage

    had to be recorded and their condition

    assessed. At the end of the remodeling,

    up grading, and building of the new

    stores, DeVries was responsible to

    consolidate to one warehouse or

    liquidate old and used fixtures.

  • In October of 1998, we moved the

    DSHS Division of Children and Family

    Services from their old building at 1425

    N. Washington to the new Rockpoint

    complex at 1313 N. Atlantic in Spokane.

    This project was done over 2

    consecutive weekends and involved the

    relocation of over 250 employees and

    their electronic equipment, personal

    contents, and peripheral furniture. This

    involved a 20 man crew and 5 trucks

    running 12 hour shifts for 3 days on 2

    weekends. The move ran very smoothly

    due to extensive planning and many

    meetings.

  • The moving of the downtown Spokane

    Public Library in 1992 was a great

    challenge and a job that we are

    extremely proud of.  The library had to

    move into a temporary location for one

    year while their old building was

    demolished and a new building was

    built at their original location.  We not

    only had to move all shelving in

    sequence with the books that went on

    each of the shelves but we also had to

    take great care in keeping the numerical

    system in tact.  This also involved

    handling of the historical books and

    photographic collections.   Each move

    consisted of the relocation of over 1

    million books.  We have been asked to

    install, reconfigure, and move all public

    and county libraries since.

  • City of Spokane – Transportation

    Dept – Sept 2015 – We moved this

    division out of 3 different buildings into

    one large facility.  The Transportation

    Dept consisted of storage from the

    Police dept.,  snow plow division,  and

    city utility trucks. This move consisted of

    over 400 tires, mechanical components,

    offices – all things that a large

    garage/shop would have stored in it.

  • September 2012 – Pepsi

    Beverages Company relocated its

    office and two warehouses,

    moving 135 employees from

    57,000 sq ft to 80,000 sq ft. One

    warehouse was in Coeur d’Alene,

    Idaho was consolidated with the

    Spokane operations and offices.


    DeVries moved office furnishings,

    display materials, safes, computers

    and warehouse items. E-crates

    were used for office packing and

    miscellaneous items. The move

    was completed over 3 days, on

    time and on budget. DeVries was

    able to locate used office cubicles

    for Pepsi to purchase and our

    installation crew was able to

    present a floor plan that was

    acceptable and created 30 new

    workstations for office personnel.

  • In August of 2009, Gonzaga University

    completed construction their newest

    dorm, Coughlin Hall.  This beautiful new

    five story building will house over 660

    students to the enrollment of the

    university.  Our crews were responsible

    for off loading, installing and detailing

    over 12 semis of new bedroom furniture

    for these new students to move into.

  • In August of 2007, we were selected by

    Titan Spring and Wire Inc. to relocate

    their entire company.  DeVries sent its

    staff from Spokane to personally

    manage the packing, loading and

    transportation of all their offices, and

    manufacturing equipment from North

    Hollywood to Hayden.  As loading and

    transportation began in California, our

    own company drivers transported

    the offices and equipment directly to

    the Hayden facility. The crew that

    loaded the trucks were then flown back

    to Hayden to be on site to receive over

    a million dollars worth of equipment and

    items for their new facility.  Eleven

    automobiles, high valued coiling

    machines, punch presses, office

    furniture and contents were all up and

    running, in eleven days, from start to

    finish, keeping their down time for

    production a minimal.

  • January of 2006, we were chosen to

    move Itronix into their new 10 million

    dollar facility in the Spokane Valley.  The

    move happened in two phases during

    the entire month of January.  DeVries

    leaders meet with all the employees in

    six separate meetings to educate them

    and prepare them for packing and

    labeling of their move and answer any

    questions that they may have.  During

    the move, two managers meeting were

    schedule each week to pre plan the

    moving of the different departments,

    and discuss any changes in their

    schedules. 




    The first phase was all the

    personnel and labs from Stevens street

    in downtown Spokane, and Phase II was

    the Liberty Lake facility with personnel,

    labs, shipping, receiving and Field

    Services operations.  The personal

    contents move alone consisted of over

    300 people and the receiving

    production area at Liberty Lake

    consisted of over 200 personnel.  The

    DeVries Team was involved also in all

    the disassembly and reassembly of their

    receiving area, technical equipment and

    machines, and 5 motorized conveyor

    systems, making sure that everything

    was up and running to meet their

    production schedules, with little or no

    down time to their customers.

  • August of 2001 marked the year’s most

    delicate move other than the Cheney

    Cowles museum, with Pathology

    Associates, (PAML) moving over 450

    employees, a vast number of computer

    servers and p.c.’s, and millions of dollars

    worth of sensitive laboratory equipment.

    This move was completed with minimal

    disruption to the above mentioned staff

    from PAML.

  • In July/August of 1999, we were

    awarded the move out of Lewis & Clark

    High School to their temporary site in

    the Holley Mason building. This job was

    approx 3000 man-hours of labor and

    was complicated because of the lack of

    elevators and we had to manufacture

    ramps down 6 flights of stairs to move

    everything out.


    The historical society closely monitored

    our progress and watched as we were

    very careful not to damage the building

    as it had to be remodeled while being

    careful not to change any of the

    historical fixtures.  In the summer

    of 2001, we moved them back into their

    new 46 million plus dollar building.

  • Another major project in the Spokane

    area which has involved a multitude

    of our services has been moving Farm

    Credit Services three different times in

    17 years.  Each time we have received

    new furniture at the site, installed all

    products as per plan, and moved all

    other office items.  In the fall of 1997,

    Farm Credit moved 200 people into

    their new facility with new workstations

    and new furnishings throughout,

    including modular walls.

  • In June of 2016 we received seven

    trailer loads of new Steelcase furniture

    at the new Comcast Support Center in

    Liberty Lake WA . In this phase of the

    project we received and assembled 400

    work stations over a three week time

    frame. We then disassembled moved

    and reassembled 300 Steelcase

    workstations from their temporary site

    on Sullivan Rd to the new facility. We

    also moved all of their employees, set

    up game rooms, outdoor furniture etc.

    The entire project included over 700

    workstations, conference rooms and

    private offices and was completed over

    a six week time frame. This was

    completed ahead or schedule and on

    budget.

     

    July 2015 – Temporary Customer

    Service Facility. Over 400 new

    Steelcase Answer workstations installed

    in 3 weeks (one week ahead of

    scheduled completion). Each

    workstation was designed  with glass

    privacy panels on top of the segmented

    panels with electrical race ways.

    Included in this install were 12 private

    offices and 6 training rooms as well as

    all seating and miscellaneous office

    furnishings to complete this facility.

    Eleven trailers of new product was

    received at sight.  Phase II of this

    project will be the teardown, move, and

    reinstall the project from above as well

    as the addition of another 300

    workstations in the summer of 2016

  • June – July of 2015 Gonzaga

    Hemmingson Center The new 60

    million dollar state of the art

    Hemmingson Activity Center was built

    on the Gonzaga University Campus and

    was the students new place to go for

    dining, studying, and entertainment.  It

    also was the center for new offices for

    over 225 employees from various

    departments throughout the campus

    and DeVries was selected to educate

    the staff members and move their

    belongings. 

  • May-June 2014  WSU Ops Center


    The new WSU Operations Center on the

    Pullman, Washington Campus was

    finished and DeVries Movings'

    Commercial staff played a big part in

    completing the 5 floors of furniture

    installation in the 75,000 square foot

    facility.  DeVries received a majority of

    the furniture in their Spokane

    Warehouse, and then transported it to

    the building for installation.  The

    beautiful building over looks Martin

    Stadium Football field and consists of all

    the coaches offices, meeting rooms,

    recruiting room, lounge areas, Football

    hall of fame, and the weight room

    overlooking the stadium.

  • March through April of 2012 - US

    Bank did a complete remodel of

    their main branch in downtown

    Spokane.  The move entailed the

    removal of 6 floors of furniture

    which either came back to our

    warehouse for storage or moving

    the furniture to a temporary

    location within the building, then

    moving it back and reinstalling it

    after construction was completed.

     

    Also involved was the distribution

    of the used furniture to other

    branches within the Spokane area

    and other donation centers.  This

    move was done over a two month

    period with over 700 man hours,

    and 200 truck hours.

  • In March of 2011, we relocated the

    corporate headquarters for Telect in

    Liberty Lake, WA.  Telect is a repeat

    customer since their initial move 1988.

    Their current move took place in 3

    phases, relocating over 90 personnel

    and their contents into their new two

    story facility.  Numerous meetings

    where held to help educate their staff in

    packing and labeling, preparing them

    for a smooth relocation and placement

    of individual workstation belongings

    and common work areas and storage.

     

    We have assisted Telect, Inc., as they

    have grown.  In 1988, Telect moved into

    their new corporate offices at Liberty

    Lake, WA.  At that time they had

    approximately 300 employees of which

    120 were in workstations and the

    remainder were employed in their

    manufacturing facility doing assembly

    work.  Again, we were involved in the

    receiving and installation as well as

    moving their corporate offices to this

    new location.  Telect now employs

    almost 1000 and we have been involved

    in the three expansions and additions of

    workstations at their current location,

    and continue to handle all of their

    Steelcase furniture reconfiguration

    and moving services.

  • In the fall of 2007, Kootenai-Shoshone

    Library’s completed construction of new

    additions to their existing libraries.  The

    Idaho libraries that received expansions

    were Pinehurst, Spirit Lake, Athol,

    Rathdrum, Harrison and the main

    Hayden Idaho facility.  DeVries Moving

    Packing Storage provided the labor

    services to vacate all the contents in the

    existing buildings into containers for

    temporary storage until the construction

    was completed.  Our crews then were

    responsible to assemble the new library

    shelving at each location and return the

    books back into their correct areas and

    departments.

  • In September of 2006, DeVries was

    selected as the moving company for

    Itron Incorporation’s relocation.  This

    move consolidated both the Maribeau

    Parkway building of 35 employees and

    their Sullivan Road facility of over 490

    employees, into their new 30 million

    dollar Liberty Lake site.  The DeVries

    project manager met with over 526

    employees in 18 plus meetings to

    educate each employee on materials,

    packing techniques, proper labeling,

    and answer any of their questions. 


    The relocation consisted of their

    personal contents, computers, files

    cabinets and chairs.  All the lab

    departments and larger Thermotron

    ovens were also relocated to their new

    facility.  This month long project and

    preplanning meetings, meet all of Itron’s

    requested schedule needs. The

    relocation schedule was planned so that

    there would not be delays in keeping

    the company on track in production and

    service for their customers.   

  • In the fall of 2004 we were awarded the

    complete move and relocation of the

    Safeco Insurance production office in

    the Spokane Valley.  The 12 phase, 11

    department move started on 6/28/04,

    and was completed on 9/24/04,

    working evenings and weekends so that

    Safeco's daily operation was not

    interrupted.  Weekly meetings were

    held at Safeco with DeVries, and Safeco

    management, computer technicians and

    electricians, all working together as

    a team to coordinated the completion of

    each move. 



    During phases 1-6, the DeVries team

    dismantled 305 Herman Miller

    Ethospace Workstations and

    reconfigured them into 365 stations.


    On phases 7-12, we dismantled 290

    Herman Miller Action stations at the

    Safeco Sprague facility, and rebuilt

    them on the 2nd floor of the Liberty

    Lake facility, then relocated all the

    personnel and their contents into the

    completed stations.  We also cut

    hundreds of laminated work surfaces

    to accommodate the newly

    reconfigured area, then shipping all the

    remaining product back to Safeco's

    Redmond Washington facility. 

  • Center Partners of Fort Collins,

    Colorado, specializing in call centers,

    choose to purchase Kimball Office

    furniture from our new furniture division.

    In the spring of 2001, we ordered and

    installed over 500 new workstations.

    We were responsible for administering

    the order, receiving at site, and project

    management through completed

    installation. 

  • In July of 1999, was probably one of our

    most challenging and delicate moves

    we have ever done. We relocated the

    entire office and curatorial staff, and all

    the irreplaceable collection items of the

    Cheney Cowles Museum out of their

    existing building in preparation for a 2-

    year remodeling project. We did this

    using a climate controlled trailer

    and hundreds of carts that we carefully

    stretch-wrapped to prevent any motion

    in transport. The move was a complete

    success and a model for careful moving.

    In the fall of 2001, we relocated them

    back in to their 26 million dollar

    building.

     

    In 1982, we were awarded the

    installation of 500+ workstations for

    Cowles Publishing, in Spokane.  There

    were 22 trailer loads of furniture

    received for the project.  Two thirds of

    the product was received at the job site

    and moved into a five story building.

    One third of the product was received

    at a warehouse to be stored for

    installation a year later after the second

    phase of their building project was

    completed.  We were also awarded the

    move of all employee’s personal effects

    going into their new workstations. 20

    years later we are still involved in

    work at Cowles Publishing.

  • In the fall of 1994, we installed over 25

    trailer loads of wood case goods, files,

    seating, accessories and etc. for the

    corporate offices of Sterling Savings

    Bank.  The first floor was the downtown

    main branch for banking activities and

    the remaining four floors were

    corporate offices.  All product in this

    building consisted of three main

    manufactures and the case goods were

    all finished in a dark red mahogany.

    There were over 30 different fabrics

    used on a variety of styles of seating

    that had to be distributed to the

    different levels of employees within the

    five story building. 


    At one point during our installation

    there were 80 other trades men in the

    building finishing laying carpeting,

    ceiling grids, hanging light fixtures,

    painting, and etc. The challenge here

    was moving the new product through

    the building, installing it, and then

    protecting it from other work that was

    on going within the building.  All in

    preparation for the move and grand

    opening that had been scheduled

    months in advance.

  • August of 2015- May 2016 / River’s Inn &

    Gonzaga University Lodging Project.

    Gonzaga University’s enrollment was

    growing and needed more rooms for its

    students.  On short notice GU decided

    to move the students into 71 rooms at

    the Rivers Inn.  All the motel furniture in

    the Rivers Inn had to be packed, moved,

    and placed into storage and 142 rooms

    of student dorm furniture moved back in

    within a 5 day period. 


    Working 2 shifts, and over a thousand

    man hours, we made it happen and on a

    very tight schedule, finishing before the

    students arrived for their first day of

    class in the fall of 2015.  May of 2016

    the project began again but in reverse.

    We had to move out all of the student

    dorm furniture the day after graduation

    and set up the 71 hotel rooms all in time

    for the May Lilac Parade festivities

    less than two weeks away. 

  • May 2015- Spokane Police Department

    Museum


    The Spokane Police Department’s

    Museum that was located in downtown

    Spokane, lease was up and DeVries

    Moving was selected to pack and move

    the artifacts into a temporary police

    storage facility until a new building is

    found. 


    Hundreds of artifacts and pictures from

    the beginning of the Police

    Departments history were handled with

    care.  The museum held hundreds of

    pictures including the first Chief of

    Police and the original gold badge he

    wore, wanted poster of John Dillinger

    the famous bank robber, Harley

    Davidson motor cycle, old guns,

    handcuffs, ball and chains, and the

    uniforms from the past.

  • February-April of 2013 Vet Med

    Building: Washington State University


    Interior Development East completed

    their new Vet Med Facility in Pullman,

    Washington.  DeVries unloaded 9 trailer

    loads of new modular furniture and

    placed it throughout the new four

    story facility.  Our company installed 120

    Unite cubicles, 2 wireworks cubicles,

    104 true Works cubicles, and 1 executive

    Krug station with over 230 new chairs

    and benches.  The move was

    completed over a 5 week period and

    over 1117 man hours.  As each floor was

    completed, the staff moved into their

    new stations with minimal disruptions to

    their work flow.

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