Kop Construction Co., of Spokane, has won a $1.2 million contract to construct senior housing in Omak, Wash.

The housing complex, which is to be named Pine Meadows Senior Housing, will include 10 residential units, nine of which will be for low-income seniors, says Claudia Clausnitzer, executive director of the Okanogan County Housing Authority, which is developing the project. The other unit will house an on-site manager, Clausnitzer says.

Zeck Butler Architects PS, of Spokane, designed the project.

The housing authority will hold a groundbreaking in January, but construction won't begin until March, Clausnitzer says.

Matt Wheelwright, a project manager for Kop, says the project will be completed in early 2013.

The project site is in north Omak, a few blocks west of U.S. 97 and about 140 miles northwest of Spokane.

The housing authority has received U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants to provide rental assistance for residents of nine of the units, Clausnitzer says.

The one-bedroom senior housing units will have about 500 square feet of living space, and the manager's unit will be larger, with two bedrooms, she says. All of the units will be in a single-story structure with a shared hallway.

"This is the first new construction we've ever done," Clausnitzer says. Nonprofit Pine Meadows Senior Housing will own the project, and the housing authority will manage it, she says.

The authority owns and manages three other housing projects with a total of 47 living units.

Kop also is the contractor on a $3.6 million project under construction at Mountain Meadows Assisted Living, in Leavenworth, Wash. That project includes a 24-unit addition and six duplex structures.