Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane has bought for $2 million the former Saint Mark Senior Living facility at 2410 N. Hogan, where it plans to move its women and children’s crisis center from smaller quarters at the former Budget Saver motel, at 1234 E. Sprague, says UGM marketing director Barbara Comito.

Union Gospel currently shelters an average of 75 to 85 women and children daily—and sometimes more than 100—at the Sprague facility, which it bought in 2006, Comito says.

“We’re bursting the seams,” she says.

The intent of the purchase of the two-story, 30,000-square-foot facility is to serve the current women and children’s shelter population with more adequate transitional housing, although the Hogan facility also will have at least twice the capacity of the Sprague facility, Comito says.

The former retirement and assisted-living center at the northeast corner of Illinois Avenue and Hogan Street, in the Logan neighborhood, also has a commercial kitchen and open dining area, which the Sprague site lacks, she says.

Union Gospel Mission hopes to move the women and children’s shelter operations to the new location by September.

Comito says UGM plans to open the old Budget Saver site to college students who want to do student ministry work here in the near term. UGM is considering using the site in the future to shelter homeless youth, she says.

Matthew Byrd, a principal at Spokane-based commercial brokerage SVN Cornerstone, handled the real estate transaction.

Wilsonville, Ore.-based Saint Mark Senior Living LLC operated the facility here for about three years before closing in late December. The company’s assets were liquidated through a Chapter 7 bankruptcy action that was completed in April, U.S. Bankruptcy Court records here show.

Multifamily

Pointe Apartments LLC, an affiliate of Hayden-based multifamily housing developer Whitewater Creek Inc., has bought 5 acres of land along Beck Road within the Pointe at Post Falls development site in west Post Falls, where the buyer plans to develop a 75-unit apartment complex. Chris Bell, of NAI Black, handled the transaction.

Retail & Office

Sweet Lou’s Restaurant & Bar, a North Idaho-based restaurant company, has leased 3,600 square feet of space on the main floor of the Parkside tower at 601 E. Front Street, in Coeur d’Alene, for a third location. Chris Schreiber and Pat Eberlin, both of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction. The other Sweet Lou’s restaurants are located in the towns of Ponderay and Hope.

Spokane County Community Services has leased 5,000 square feet of office space in the City View Plaza building, at 327 W. Eighth, where it plans to move from smaller quarters at 312 W. Eighth. Northwest Real Estate Equities LLC and Scribner Investment Cos. handled the transaction.

Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. has leased 6,400 square feet of office space formerly occupied by 360 Fitness and Boardwalk Boutique, at 2157 and 2169 N. Main, in the Riverstone development in Coeur d’Alene. The  Boise-based company plans to move its Coeur d’Alene office there from smaller quarters at 1270 Northwood Court. Casey Brazil, Pat Eberlin, and Chris Schreiber, all of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the transaction.

Service & Storage

Appleway RV LLC, a Spokane Valley recreational vehicle dealership, has leased a 12,500-square-foot service garage building formerly occupied by Mobile Fleet Services Inc., at 216 N. Dyer. Doug Byrd and Cassandra Becker, both of Byrd Real Estate Group, and Pete Carstens, of Carstens Management Co., handled the transaction. The Appleway RV sales lot is located at 7210 E. Sprague.

Bruce Sharp, owner of Trentwood Storage Inc., has bought for $410,000 an acre of adjacent land with a 1,600-square-foot office building at 13305 E. Trent Road. Sharp plans expand the self-storage facility on the land, and separately lease out the building. Jeff Ottmar, of SVN Cornerstone, and Pat Mutzel, of Colliers International, handled the transaction.