Pet Emergency Clinic PS, currently located at 21 E. Mission north of downtown, plans to construct a larger veterinary office building on an adjacent lot, a predevelopment application submitted to the city of Spokane shows.

The envisioned $3 million structure would have up to 18,000 square feet of floor space, with a 12,700-square-foot main floor and a smaller second floor and basement, the application shows.

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor and applicant on the project. 

Animal Arts Design Studios, a Colorado-based architectural company that specializes in veterinary offices, is designing it.

Michael O’Dea, a veterinarian and a principal at Pet Emergency Clinic, says the after-hours emergency veterinary practice hopes to begin work on the project before winter and move into the new building by midsummer next year.

“Our goal is to have larger space for additional veterinary specialists,” he says.

The project site is located at the northeast corner of Mission Avenue and Division Street.

Just east of the project site, Pet Emergency Clinic occupies a 6,600-square-foot building with one story and a partial basement where it operates after hours on weekdays and 24 hours on weekends and holidays. During weekday business hours, veterinary specialty practices Inland Empire Veterinary Imaging PS, Veterinary Surgical Services PS, and Internal Medicine Services lease the space. Dermatology for Animals PC, an Arizona-based practice, also has a part-time clinic at the building, O’Dea says.

“The building is 100 percent occupied 24 hours a day,” he says, adding that the specialty practices there now also will move to the planned building.

Pet Emergency Clinic has a staff of 40, and the specialty practices altogether employ about 27 people, O’Dea says.

When the planned building is complete, the current structure will be demolished, and parking will be expanded to include 43 spaces, the predevelopment application says.