Home Depot has submitted a building permit application to the city of Spokane to construct a long-anticipated home improvement retail store on the South Hill.

If approved, the store will be located at the 13-acre site of a former Shopko store at 4515 S. Regal, which will be replaced with the new building after having been vacant for about five years.

The construction value for the new Home Depot store is listed at $17.8 million, which will include a 108,200-square-foot building and a 28,100-square-foot garden center.

McLean, Virginia-based MG2 Corp. is listed as the architect on the project. No contractor is named on the application.

Environmental documents submitted earlier show that construction could begin as early as this spring with a possible store opening by summer 2025 with a staff of about 200 workers.

SHS Building LLC, a Phoenix-based real estate investment company, purchased the property on which Home Depot plans to build for $10.5 million nine years ago, tax records show.

As previously reported by the Journal, Home Depot scrapped similar plans in 2008 for a new store and garden center just southeast of the Shopko building due to objections by some neighborhood residents and building restrictions that limited the footprint of a big-box store to 100,000 square feet at that site.