A Spokane man says he has bought a former assisted-living center on Spokane's North Side and plans to reopen it under a new name.

The new owner, Emmanuel Connor, says the 9,600-square-foot facility at 9626 N. Colfax, just north of the Rosauers supermarket in the Heritage Village Shopping Center near the Division "Y", will be called Beulah House and will open by Aug. 1. Minor renovations are under way at the facility and include installing a new roof, doing some repainting, and improving the electrical and plumbing systems, Connor says.

He says the center, formerly the Heritage House assisted-living facility, has 15 resident rooms, and he has applied through the Washington state Department of Social and Health Services to be licensed for 30 beds.

The center also has a commercial-grade kitchen, a dining room, a recreation-television room, an office, and basement living quarters for staff members. The Beulah House will have seven employees, he says.

Beulah House's services will include three daily meals, supervised dispensing of medications, some daily living supervision, shower assistance, recreation activities, laundry service, and housekeeping, Connor says.

Most rooms will house two clients, although clients will have the option of renting private rooms, he says, adding that monthly rates will start at about $1,700 a month for shared rooms and will range from about $2,500 to $2,800 a month for private rooms.

Heritage House and Cornerstone Place, another former North Side assisted-living facility at 825 W. Hawthorne Road, were operated by Spokane Valley-based Alternative Care Corp., which dissolved after bankruptcy proceedings in 2007. Whitworth University acquired Alternative Care's real estate assets, converted Cornerstone Place into student housing, and recently sold the former Heritage House to Connor.

Marc Mowrer and Mike Livingston, both of Spokane-based Kiemle & Hagood Co., and Tracy Penna, of Coeur d'Alene-based Century 21 Beutler & Associates' Spokane office, handled the real estate transaction.

Connor, a psychologist and former probation officer for the British government, is a native of Anguilla, a small Caribbean island near Puerto Rico.