The longtime site of David's Pizza, near Gonzaga University at the northwest corner of Boone Avenue and Hamilton Street, is being demolished to make way for a $1 million multitenant retail center, plans on file with the city of Spokane show.

Mark Starr, owner of David's Pizza, says he plans to reopen the restaurant at an as-yet undisclosed location.

Development plans show that the Clementine Square Retail Center, to be erected at 829 E. Boone, would have 8,440 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, plus an 855-square-foot mezzanine.

No tenants are named in the plans, which call for construction of the building shell only.

The plans list LLC&M LLC, of Spokane, as the property owner. That company is managed by Greg Byrd, of Byrd Real Estate Group LLC. Byrd couldn't be reached for comment.

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is contractor on the project, and Wolfe Architectural Group PS, also of Spokane, designed it. The Spokane office of Seattle-based DCI Engineering is the civil engineer on the project.

Brian Valliant, a project manager for Baker Construction, says demolition will take about a week, and the building shell will be completed early next year.

Starr says he plans to open a new flagship location for David's Pizza about a mile west of the former restaurant site. Starr declines to disclose the precise location yet, but says the restaurant will have about 5,000 square feet of floor space, as well as some outside seating and street parking.

He had operated David's Pizza for about 14 years at Boone and Hamilton, where the restaurant occupied 3,000 square feet of space. Starr says the largest space that would have been available to him in Clementine Square would have been about 1,700 square feet.

"That wouldn't allow enough room for community events and the catering that we do," he says.

Starr currently serves the David's Pizza menu at Famous Ed's, a restaurant and sports bar, he co-owns with Dale Kleist, at 2911 E. 57th.