Prominent Spokane developer Harlan Douglass plans to build a 256-unit apartment complex in Spokane Valley.

Douglass couldn't be reached for comment, but a building permit application filed with the city of Spokane Valley shows that the Shelley Lake Apartments complex would have 16 apartment buildings, a separate manager's office structure, a swimming pool, and 12 garages.

The building permit application lists the total value of the project at $2.6 million. Mike Turbak, the city's senior permit specialist, says that the value the city puts on the project likely will exceed that figure substantially, given the sheer size of the project and because the city makes its own calculations using a master fee schedule that factors in square footage and construction standards.

The city, for example, put a total value estimate of $20.7 million on permits it issued last August for a project involving a smaller number of apartments—the 216-unit second phase of the Granite Pointe apartment complex—in the Mirabeau area.

The Shelley Lake Apartments project would be developed on 15 acres of vacant land at 215 S. Conklin. The parcel, which is zoned for multifamily residential development, is on the east side of Conklin Road, in the Veradale area of Spokane Valley. The site is just north of a single-family home development that fronts partly on Shelley Lake.

Seven of the 16 apartment buildings would have 24 units each, four would have 10 units, three would have 12 units and two would have six units. The 24-unit structures would have three stories, and the rest would have two stories. The structures would range in size from 9,600 to 36,000 square feet of floor space, the permit application shows.

Douglass would be the contractor on the project, the permit application says. Roy L. Wyatt Architects & Associates PS, of Spokane Valley, is designing the project, and Whipple Consulting Engineers Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the civil engineer on it.

The city of Spokane recently approved Douglass' preliminary plat request for the planned 231-unit Hunt's Pointe housing development in the Indian Trail neighborhood on the North Side. Also in the Indian Trail neighborhood, Douglass is developing Windhaven, a residential project that includes 286 single-family homes and 212 apartment units.