Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, has started work on a 4,600-square-foot, two-tenant building in the South Perry Business District, on Spokane's South Hill, that will be occupied by a new microbrewery and have room for another retail tenant.

The project site is located at the northeast corner of Perry Street and 11th Avenue, in the heart of the business district.

The project owner, Spokane developer Cody Coombs, couldn't be reached for comment.

Building permit information on file with the city of Spokane lists the project value at $500,000 for the building shell.

Spokane County Assessors records show CCRC LLC, which Coombs heads, bought the quarter-acre, two-lot project site late last year in two separate transactions for a total of $282,000.

The developer demolished two houses on the site earlier this year, and site work for the project is under way.

Brandon Spackman, a project manager with Baker Construction, says the project is scheduled to be completed in September.

Benjamin Lukes, who is head of a recently formed company named Perry Street Brewing Co., says the microbrewery will take up two-thirds of the building. Lukes says he gained his brewing experience in Missoula, where he worked a number of years for Big Sky Brewing Co., which likely is best known as the maker of Moose Drool.

The exterior of the building will feature architectural metal panels and rustic wood siding reclaimed from a dismantled barn that will help the new structure complement historic buildings in the neighborhood-focused commercial district, Spackman says. The brewery portion of the building will have glass overhead doors that will open for seasonal patio seating, he says.

Uptic Studios Inc., of Spokane, is managing the project on behalf of the developer, and Christopher Morlan Architect PLLC, of Spokane, is the architect of record.

Spackman says the developer is looking for a retail tenant to lease a smaller part of the building.