Construction is expected to begin on Camas Meadow Park this fall, with a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for late September.

“The design team has an early site-work package in for permit, which would allow the earthwork and some utility work to occur this fall,” says Julia Culp, Spokane County parks project manager and landscape architect. “West Plains soils are difficult in the spring when moisture is present. This fall earthwork would give us a jump on next year’s construction.”

The community park, which will be owned and maintained by Spokane County, is to be located on a 10-acre parcel at 9817 W. Melville Road, just south of The Plains Golf Course, which previously was known as The Fairways Golf Course.

Camas Meadow Park is expected to be completed in fall 2025, Culp says.

The grading permit submitted last month and currently under review by the county lists Spokane-based Garco Construction Inc. as the project’s contractor. The Spokane office of DCI Engineers and Liberty Lake-based Michael Terrell Landscape Architecture PLLC also are included on the project’s design-build team.

Once completed, the park will include an adult softball and youth baseball field, a basketball court, four pickleball courts, a fenced dog park, an event plaza with space for community events and food trucks, a playground, an open grass field large enough for two soccer fields, walking trails, a restroom, two shelters, and nearly 90 parking spaces, plans show.

In November 2022, Spokane County Parks, Recreation & Golf received an American Rescue Plan Act award of $6 million for the acquisition, planning, design, permitting, and development of a 10- to 20-acre community park, which originally was proposed to be named West Plains Community Park.

Previously used for agriculture and a single-family residence that has since been demolished, the Melville Road property was acquired by the county in March 2023.

According to the project master plan, a 10-acre property to the south of the park site could be acquired for future expansion of Camas Meadow Park.