Hayden-based apartment developer Whitewater Creek Inc. has started construction on a $6.3 million, 80-unit senior-housing project in the Riverstone urban village development in Coeur d’Alene.

The project, named Riverstone Silver, includes one three-story, 30-unit apartment building and 10 smaller, single-story buildings, each with four to six living units, applications for building permits issued by the city of Coeur d’Alene between July 6 and Sept. 17 show.

Whitewater Creek is acting as its own contractor on the project, and ZBA Architecture PS, of Spokane, designed it.

Todd Prescott, president of Whitewater Creek, couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

The project site is the south half of a 10-acre parcel of land that Whitewater Creek owns at the southeast corner of Seltice Way and Riverstone Drive, on the north edge of the Riverstone development.

Hilary Anderson, community planning director for the city of Coeur d’Alene, says Whitewater Creek also plans to develop a 66-unit, senior-housing apartment complex, tentatively named Seltice Seniors, on the north half of the parcel, although the developer hasn’t applied for building permits for that complex yet.

A preliminary map of both complexes shows the Seltice Seniors project would have six apartment buildings.

In the Riverstone Silver project, the 30-unit apartment building will have a total of 28,700 square feet of living space, and the other buildings will range in size from 3,600 square feet to 5,400 square feet, permit information shows.

The complex also will include a 1,900-square-foot, single-story community building.

The complex will be served by an interior road to be named Whistler Loop, which will connect to Riverstone Drive near Seltice Way. Riverstone Silver also will have 150 parking spaces, 75 of which will be covered, throughout the complex.

The complex will have 12 one-bedroom units and the rest will have two bedrooms, a site plan shows.

An Idaho Housing and Finance Association report says at least 71 of the units will be designated as affordable units.

Whitewater Creek has earlier developed more than 200 apartment units in three affordable housing complexes in Riverstone’s northwest quadrant.

As reported in the Journal in August, Whitewater Creek also plans to develop the $12 million, 114-unit Palouse Trails low-income apartment complex at 5000 S. Palouse Highway, on Spokane’s upper South Hill.

Building permit applications for the Palouse Trails project have been submitted to the city of Spokane and were under plan review as of last week. 

That project would include five three-story apartment buildings and a single-story commons building to be constructed on a 4-acre parcel of land abutting the east edge of the Target store parcel at Regal Plaza.

The Palouse Trails project would be about a half-mile north of Summit Ridge Apartments and Pine Rock Apartments, two other low-income housing complexes Whitewater Creek recently developed.