Deaconess Hospital has applied for a building permit for a $5.2 million ambulatory health care center on Spokane’s North Side.

The hospital plans to erect a single-story building with 12,700 square feet of space at 8202 N. Division, according to the permit application, which is under review by the city.

Deaconess representatives couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

The permit information also describes the Deaconess project as a stand-alone emergency department.

MJ Harris Construction Services LLC, of Birmingham, Ala., is the contractor on the project, and HFR Inc., of Brentwood, Tenn., is providing architectural and engineering services.

Prominent Spokane real estate developer Harlan Douglass owns the property, a 5.4-acre vacant parcel of land north of a Discount Tire Co. outlet. The Deaconess site also is south of an adjoining 9-acre Douglass-owned parcel that’s bordered by massive retaining walls along Division and facing the Pine Ridge apartment complex.

The Deaconess center would be less than two miles southeast of a Providence Urgent Care Center, which is an affiliate of Providence Health Care, the largest Inland Northwest competitor to Deaconess.

Deaconess and Valley hospitals are operated by Spokane-based Rockwood Health System, an affiliate of Franklin, Tenn.-based, for-profit Community Health Systems.

Rockwood operates a number of medical offices under the Rockwood Clinic name. It has six urgent care centers in the Spokane area, including one at 9001 N. Country Homes Blvd., about a mile northwest of the Deaconess project site.

Deaconess also is remodeling and expanding its emergency department at its main hospital, at 805 W. Fifth, in a $3.7 million project that’s scheduled to be completed next spring.

MJ Harris Construction also is the contractor on that project, and Ascension Group Architects, of Arlington, Texas, designed it.