Whitewater Creek Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, has received building permits for a $4 million multifamily affordable housing project, at the big Tullamore development in Post Falls.

Whitewater Creek is listed as the contractor for an associated company, Tullamore Commons LP, which plans to develop 50 units of multifamily housing in what's been envisioned as the first phase of a multiphase development that would include senior housing units in a second phase and more multifamily housing later.

Whitewater Creek declined through a spokesperson to comment on the project, but a site plan prepared by Zeck Butler Architects PS, of Spokane, shows that four two-story apartment buildings are to be constructed in the first phase of work, as well as a one-story community building. The combined permit values for those five buildings totals about $4 million. The site plan shows the apartments in the development will be available in one-, two-, and three-bedroom configurations, and each of the four multifamily buildings is to include maintenance and tenant storage areas.

The 250-acre Tullamore mixed-use development is located between Poleline and Prairie Avenues, on the east side of state Route 41. Nearby, Phillip Edison Development Co., a division of Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison & Co., is planning a 500,000-square-foot shopping center on other property it purchased from Vision First LLC, of Eagle Idaho, at the northeast corner of Prairie and state Route 41. In 2005, Vision First proposed the Tullamore development to city of Post Falls planners.

The current phase of the Tullamore Commons LP project has been allocated about $500,000 in low-income housing tax credits from the Idaho Housing & Finance Association, which administers affordable housing resources and serves as an agent for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development.