A development company with ties to Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, is planning to develop a business park on the west edge of Liberty Lake north of Interstate 90, according to documents on file in that city.

Ted Williams Partnership, which is headed by James T. "Tim" Welsh, president of Garco, is listed as the owner-developer on an application for a binding site plan for a 30-acre commercial development to be called Cataldo Business Park. Matt Hoffman, also of Garco, is listed as the project manager for the development. Neither Welsh nor Hoffman could be reached for comment.

The application currently is going through the city's environmental review, says Amanda Tainio, Liberty Lake's planning and building services manager.

The development would be located a block north of Cataldo Avenue, about a half-mile east of Barker Road, Tainio says. The 24-lot development would be located just north of the MasterCraft-Inland Northwest boat dealership and the Freedom RV Inc. sales lot, which both front Cataldo Avenue. The planned business-park parcel is vacant except for the Valley HUB, a 67,000-square-foot indoor sports facility that was built in 2003, and is two lots north of Freedom RV.

The HUB is on a 5-acre lot, and two other large proposed lots, each more than 3.5 acres in size, would be directly to the north and south of it. The remaining 21 lots in the business park would range in size from about a half-acre to 1 acre and would be east of the three larger lots.

Cataldo Business Park would have three private interior roads, the site-plan application shows. One of the private roads would connect to an envisioned extension of Hodges Road on the west side of the development, and another would connect to Cataldo Avenue.

The current land-use zoning designation is freeway commercial, under which allowed uses include general office, dining, retail, and recreational facilities. Housing units and schools are among land uses that generally aren't allowed in the freeway commercial zone.

Storhaug Engineering Inc., of Spokane, is the civil engineer on the project.