Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy and retail store chain, has submitted a building permit application to construct a stand-alone store on the north end of the Franklin Park Commons shopping center, where it would move an existing outlet from another part of the mall.

The application, which is under review by the city of Spokane, lists the project value at $1 million.

Rite Aid first approached the city’s building department with the plan in 2010. Mike Penkunis, a plan examiner with the city, says the company hasn’t submitted any major changes to those plans in the recent application.

Penkunis says the city could issue a building permit for the project as early as the middle of this month.

The proposed 17,400-square-foot store would include a drive-thru pharmacy, building permit application information shows. It would be developed on 3.6 acres of land at 5840 N. Division. The site currently is a portion of the mall parking lot at the southeast corner of Division Street and Central Avenue, northwest of the Burlington Coat Factory apparel outlet.

The San Francisco office of Canada-based design firm Stantec designed the project. No contractor has been named yet.

Rite Aid spokeswoman Kristin Kellum says the company plans to build an outlet in its “wellness store” format.

Rite Aid’s wellness stores have pharmacists with special training in diabetes care and medication management, Kellum says. The wellness stores also have a private pharmacist consultation room for providing advanced clinical services, she says.

Pharmacists at wellness stores also provide customers immunization services against about a dozen diseases, including flu, pneumonia, shingles, and whooping cough, she says.

Wellness stores also have wellness ambassadors who serve as a bridge between the front end of the store and the pharmacy, Kellum says.

The new store also will carry hundreds of new health-and-wellness products, including organic and gluten-free foods and all-natural products.

Kellum says Rite Aid hopes to open the stand-alone store next May or June.

The Rite Aid store at Franklin Park currently is located at 5520 N. Division, where it’s sandwiched between a Bed Bath & Beyond store and a Ross Dress for Less outlet.

Kellum says employees at the current location would be offered positions at the new location.