Vandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, will start construction as early as this month on a Super 1 Foods supermarket that will be the first building in a new commercial center in Athol, says Andrea Frye, a Vandervert spokeswoman.

The 57,000-square-foot store will be the anchor at The Crossings, a planned commercial development at the northeast corner of U.S. 95 and state Route 54, in the Kootenai County town about 20 miles north of Coeur d’Alene.

The Super 1 Foods project is valued at $11.5 million, including equipment and inventory, says Randy McIntire, Hayden-based vice president of Manito Super 1 Foods Inc., a Spokane company that McIntire and his father, Ron, own.

Mercier Architecture & Planning, of Spokane, is designing the Super 1 Foods store.

The Crossings, which is being developed by Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hughes Investments, also is envisioned to include a bank, two restaurants, a gas station and convenience store, a 90-plus room hotel, retail stores, and medical offices.

Welch Comer & Associates Inc., of Coeur d’Alene, is the civil engineer for The Crossings development.

McIntire says the Athol City Council recently agreed to annex the 42-acre development site and is working on preliminary approvals for the Super 1 Foods project.

“We hope to get going in time to have the contractors working indoors by winter,” he says, adding that the store tentatively is scheduled to open next spring.

McIntire says the Athol store will be the first Super 1 Foods to have an Ace Hardware store inside the supermarket.

The store also will have a full deli, a bakery, and a natural-foods section.

McIntire says the store will have 40 full-time employees and 50 to 60 part-time employees.

The Athol store will be the 19th Super 1 Foods store in the regional chain, which operates in Washington, Idaho, and Montana, he says.

In another Vandervert project closer to home, the contractor recently completed construction of a multitenant building at 10406 N. Division. 

The 4,700-square-foot building, located at the northeast corner of Division Street and Hawthorne Road, is valued at $900,000, including constructing the building shell and tenant improvements for an Umpqua Bank branch, which occupies 2,100 square feet of space on the south end of the building. The rest of the building is unoccupied.

Uptic Studios Inc., of Spokane, designed the project.

Vandervert also is renovating the top floor of the two-story Mystery Building, at 820 W. Sprague, where the contractor is converting 4,000 square feet of space into four luxury apartment units.

Spokane-based Hurtado|Hissong Design Group LLC, which does business as HDG Architecture, of Spokane, designed the $650,000 project, which is scheduled to be completed in late summer.

Design features include open layouts with exposed brick and timbers.

The 123-year-old Mystery Building is adjacent to the Michael Building, directly across Sprague Avenue from the Davenport Hotel. Most of the first floor of the building is occupied by the Fire Artisan Pizza restaurant.