Spokane-based Global Credit Union is considering construction of two commercial structures on the western edge of downtown.

One structure is planned on a lot just north of its corporate office building at 1500 W. Fourth and the other across Fourth Avenue south of the headquarters building.

A predevelopment conference application submitted to the city of Spokane describes the project as “Global Credit Union Retail North & South.”

Mary Starkey, Global Credit Union’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, declines comment until more details for the development are finalized.

The application calls for demolition of Global Credit Union’s current remote drive-thru at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and Walnut Street to make room for 2,100-square-foot coffee shop at 1507 W. Third, on the north portion of the development. The application indicates the coffee shop’s drive-thru traffic would enter from and exit to Walnut Street.

Preliminary site plans accompanying the application also show a 5,000-square-foot, single-story, three-bay structure is envisioned on the southern development site, at 1505 W. Fourth.

In an email response to a Journal inquiry about the development, project architect Russ Wolfe, of Spokane-based Wolfe Architectural Group PS, says the Fourth Avenue portion of the development could be retail or office space and could include two-lanes of remote drive-thru service for Global Credit Union.

Wolfe declines to disclose a cost estimate for the project.

Global Credit Union bought its current headquarters building, which formerly was known as the Freeway Plaza building, in early 2016. The credit union moved into the five-story, 50,000-square-foot structure that fall. It occupies the building with other tenants.

Global Credit Union’s former headquarters were across the street at 1520 W. Third in a pyramid-shaped building that now houses Spokane-based proprietary software company Imprezzio Inc.

Global Credit Union has five Spokane-area branches, two branches in Kootenai County, and three military branches in Italy.

The company has decreased its presence  in Western Europe through the years and increased its presence in Eastern Washington, targeting mainly Spokane, where it was founded in 1954.