Prestige Care Inc., of Vancouver, Wash., is planning to build a 22-unit independent-living complex at its Sullivan Park Care Center, in Spokane Valley.


Located at the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Adams Road, the retirement campus currently includes a 125-bed skilled-nursing facility and a 44-unit assisted-living center.


The independent-living complex, which is to be called Sullivan Park Cottages, will be located just northwest of the current facilities, and will include 11 duplex buildings with a total of 22 living units, says Bob King, project superintendent for Salem, Ore.-based Curry Brandaw Construction LLC, the contractor on the project.


Permits issued by the city of Spokane Valley put the projects cost at about $1.8 million.


King says the company plans to break ground this week on the project. The first few units are scheduled to be completed by February. All of the buildings are scheduled to be completed by next April.


The duplex units will include 17 two-bedroom units, each with about 1,040 square feet, and five one-bedroom units, each with 850 square feet of space. All of the units will be one story, and each will include an attached, one-car garage.


Also, King says, each unit either will be accessible to people with disabilities or will be set up so that it can be converted easily to meet standards set by the Americans With Disabilities Act.


Prestige Care operates retirement facilities across the western U.S. In addition to Sullivan Park, the company operates Legends Park Assisted-Living Center, a 44-unit facility in Coeur dAlene.