Greenstone Corp., the Liberty Lake-based developer of the Kendall Yards development northwest of downtown Spokane, plans to begin construction this fall on a pair of two-tenant retail buildings. 

The structures, tentatively called Nettleton Corners, are to be located in the heart of the residential section of the 78-acre, urban mixed-use community.

The buildings will have a total of 7,000 square feet of commercial space and a combined value of $1.2 million, says Jim Frank, Greenstone president.

Planned uses include a three-unit “boutique hotel,” a restaurant, a coffee shop, and a deli, Frank says.

“We’re doing a little neighborhood retail cluster,” Frank says. “We’re trying to put a small amount of walkable retail in the midst of a residential neighborhood. It’s typical of what you would have seen in historic urban neighborhoods.”

The project will be located on either side of Ohio Avenue, facing Nettleton Street, across Nettleton from Olmsted Brothers Green Park, Frank says.

The structures will have equal amounts of floor space, although one will be a two-story building, and the other will be a single-story building with a larger footprint, he says.

The single-story building will be adjacent to the Centennial Trail, which is south of Ohio. The two-story building will be on the north side of Ohio, south of and parallel to Summit Parkway.

Frank says the upper floor of the two-story building will be the boutique hotel.

Frank says Kendall Yards residents have shown some interest in having a place for guests to stay when they visit.

“In the urban neighborhood we’re creating, the (living) units aren’t huge,” Frank says. “They don’t provide a lot of room if guests visit. I think this little hotel serves that purpose as well as providing a nice little place in the neighborhood for people visiting the community.”

Greenstone envisions a deli on the ground floor of that building, he says.

Greenstone has secured a restaurant tenant that will occupy one of two planned commercial units in the single-story building.

The unnamed eatery will be operated by a local chef, whom Frank declines to identify.

“We’re working on leases for the other spaces,” Frank says.

Greenstone plans to begin construction this fall.

“We’re preparing plans for a building permit now, and we’ll submit an application in the next 30 days,” Frank says. “We’re planning occupancy in May 2017.”

Shoesmith Cox Architects PLLC, of Seattle, and Greenstone’s in-house designers are collaborating on the project design, and Greenstone likely will be its own contractor on the Nettleton Corners project, he says.

In other active commercial projects in Kendall Yards, the city of Spokane has approved a building permit for an $8 million independent grocery store, and construction is under way on a $4.5 million medical office building.

The grocery store, to be called My Fresh Market, will be located at 517 N. Monroe, where site work is under way. Vandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on the three-story, 26,000-square-foot structure, which is expected to open in late spring, and Shoesmith Cox Architects designed it.

Kendall Yards Medical Office Building, a three-story, 38,000-square-foot structure, will be located at 456 N. Jefferson Way.

Tenants there will include Spokane-based primary care providers Providence Medical Group and Columbia Medical Associates.

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on that project, and Bernardo|Wills Architects PC, also of Spokane, designed it.