A Seattle developer plans to construct a 12,400-square-foot, multitenant retail building in Liberty Lake, environmental planning documents on file with the city of Liberty Lake show.

The project site would be located on an acre of vacant land at the northwest corner of Country Vista Drive and Whitman Lane, south of Interstate 90 in western Liberty Lake.

The site fronts Country Vista Drive in the commercial development anchored by a Home Depot store, which was constructed in 2005.

The listed contact for the development company, Kunpeng LLC, couldn’t be reached for contact.

Amanda Tainio, planning and building services manager for Liberty Lake, says the environmental application is required for any structure larger than 12,000 square feet or any project with more than 40 parking spaces. The project would include a 61-space parking lot, planning documents show.

Tainio says the city likely will issue a mitigated determination of nonsignificance, meaning the project likely will pass environmental muster with certain conditions.

“I expect we will have a decision and issue a building permit within a couple of weeks,” she says.

Construction is expected to begin before winter and to be completed by late spring of 2017.

The planning documents, which don’t identify prospective tenants, describe the project only as a retail shell building. About half of the building would be occupied by a restaurant, and a mix of retail uses would occupy the rest.

Tainio says the city estimates the building shell value at $1.1 million, which doesn’t include the value of interior improvements.

Planning documents say the structure would be a wood-framed, single-story building with a maximum height of 28 feet. It would have finishes of stucco, simulated stone, and glass.

Interior improvements would be subject to a future building permit request, Tainio says.

Pasco-based RGU Architecture & Planning is designing the project, and Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is listed as the contractor.

Access to the property would be through an existing “stub road” that connects the Home Depot parking lot to Whitman Lane at the northeast corner of the project site.

The planning documents estimate the development would generate up to 320 vehicle trips per day with a peak of 48 vehicles per hour.

Tainio says that one condition of the city’s project approval likely will require the developer to participate in the Liberty Lake Harvard Road mitigation plan or to conduct an independent traffic study.

Developers who participate in the Harvard Road plan pay a traffic impact fee to be calculated by the city, she says.

Harvard Road, which is about a half-mile east of the project site, extends from north Liberty Lake Road north of Interstate 90. Together Harvard Road and north Liberty Lake Road make up the city’s main north-south arterial with freeway access.