Ste. Michelle Wine Estates has teamed with Railex LLC to build a temperature-controlled distribution center. Railex is investing between $18 million and $20 million to build and operate a 500,000-square-foot distribution center in Wallula, Wash. The center is scheduled to open in February 2013. St. Michelle signed a long-term lease for the majority of the warehouse space. Railex currently operates a rail system linking Wallula and a Delano, Calif., center to a location in Rotterdam, N.Y. The company plans to open another location in the southeastern U.S. Details: railexusa.com, smwe.com.

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