Mead Reduction Works, Washington

The Mead Works, north of Spokane, was an aluminum smelter originally built by Alcoa in 1942, for the U.S. government. Kaiser purchased the plant in 1946, and operated it continuously until 2000, when the plant was closed. The Mead facility was sold to Commercial Development Company Inc. in 2004, who dismantled some of the plant for resale as scrap metal. In 2012, the property was sold to IRG, who hope to convert the site into a business/industrial park, after clean up and remediation of the contaminated site.