National Church Residences, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit that develops low-income senior housing, plans to develop a new senior-housing facility in Deer Park and expand two complexes it currently operates in Spokane Valley.


The total cost of the three projects is roughly $5.6 million, says Joe Kasberg, Columbus-based vice president and chief financial officer of the organization.


White Water Creek Inc., of Hayden, is the contractor for all of those projects, and Zeck Butler Architects PS, of Spokane, designed them.


In Deer Park, National Church Residences plans to start work this spring on a single-story building that would include 25 independent-living units, Kasberg says. The project is to be located along D Street there and will include 24 one-bedroom units, each with 540 square feet of living space, and a two-bedroom managers unit. The building also will include a 1,600-square-foot community space for residents.


Kasberg says the $2 million structure, which hasnt been named yet, likely will be completed late this year.


In Spokane Valley, the organization plans to add 38 living units at its Tschirley Crossing complex, one block south of Sprague Avenue at 111 S. Tschirley. It also plans to add eight units to its Sprague Crossing facility, at 14303 E. Sprague, Kasberg says.


Both of those projects are expected to get under way by late spring or early summer.


The expansion at Tschirley Crossing will involve development of five one-story buildings. The buildings will include 22 two-bedroom units, each with 870 square feet of floor space, and 16 one-bedroom units, each with 646 square feet of space. Along with the complexs current 26 units, Tschirley Crossing will have a total of 64 living units.


Kasberg says the total cost of that project will be roughly $3 million.


The $600,000 project at Sprague Crossing involves construction of two buildings with a total of eight living units, which will give the complex a total of 33 living units.


The new buildings will include four one-bedroom, 646-square-foot living units and four two-bedroom, 870-square-foot units.


National Church Residences currently operates seven developments in Spokane-Coeur dAlene and is well under way on a 40-unit complex in the Sandpoint area.


After the Deer Park project and the expansions here are completed, the company will have 332 low-income senior living units in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.


Nationally, the organization operates 250 projects in 27 states and Puerto Rico.