Spokane Valley contractor Silvey Construction Inc. has obtained a building permit to construct a $3 million office building on Spokane’s North Side.

The proposed project site is a vacant parcel of land at 9911 N. Nevada, just north of a Horizon Credit Union branch, and east of the Northpointe Plaza shopping center.

Mike Silvey, owner and president of Silvey Construction, says he hopes to start work on the project in two or three weeks. Silvey says the project will be completed within a year.

The structure, tentatively being called the Nevada Professional Building, will have two above-ground floors and a daylight basement, for a total of 14,200 square feet of floor space.

Herath & Associates PC, of Otis Orchards, designed the project, and Jordan Engineering Inc., of Spokane, is the structural engineer.

Silvey says a third of the building has been preleased, although he declines to identify the tenants.

NNPB LLC, of Spokane Valley, which is headed by Spokane attorney James A. Wolff, is listed on building permit application information as the owner of the project.

In another potential project, Silvey Construction is in the early planning stages for an office building in Post Falls. The proposed project site is a vacant 1.5-acre parcel of land just north of a Spokane Teachers Credit Union branch site at 3903 E. Primrose Lane.

Silvey says the proposed building there would have 15,000 to 20,000 square feet of floor space, depending on tenants.

“We’re holding off until we firm up a couple of tenants,” Silvey says. “Then we will design it to accommodate their specific needs,” he says.

Jack Kestell, of Kestell Co Realtors, of Spokane, is the leasing agent for the Post Falls project.

Silvey says Silvey Construction is having a “comfortable year” in terms of its project volume.

“We’ve got other projects in the works,” he says, although he declines to comment further on them.

Meantime, Silvey Construction also is the contractor on an $840,000 two-building medical office complex project that’s getting far along at the former Discovery School site at 324 S. Sherman.

A concern led by Spokane dermatologist Dr. William Philip Werschler is developing the project, named the 3rd & Sherman Medical Campus.

Silvey says work on a 2,600-square-foot outpatient clinic building there, which will include a day spa, will be completed in July, and work on a two-story 20,400-square-foot medical office building will be completed in October.