A Spokane couple, Don and JoAnn Mattson, are developing an 11,000-square-foot retail center at the northeast corner of Nevada Street and Lyons Avenue, across Lyons from a larger, relatively new retail complex that's anchored by an Albertson's supermarket.

The Mattsons' project, called Nevada Towers Retail Center, is going up on a 1.4-acre site, at 6704 N. Nevada, says Guy Byrd, of Cornerstone Property Management Advisors LLC, who's the leasing agent for the project.

Russell Page Architects, of Spokane, designed the project, and Citadel Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the general contractor. City records list the project's value at nearly $700,000.

Byrd says a coffee shop has agreed to lease 1,800 square feet of floor space in the single-story center, and a family fitness center is close to reaching an agreement to lease another 2,600 square feet of floor space. He declines to disclose the names of those businesses.

The center, which is scheduled to be completed by next March, will have room for up to four other tenants to lease space ranging from 1,400 to 2,100 square feet each, he says.