Cherrywood Place Retirement & Assisted Living, a 47-unit senior-living facility on Spokane's North Side, is planning a $404,000 remodel, says Mike Sutton, the maintenance director there.

The project involves installing roll-in showers and flooring and reconfiguring fixtures and furnishings in bathrooms in 24 units to make them wheelchair accessible, Sutton says. He says the project also will include updating kitchens in all of the units with new wheelchair-accessible cabinets and countertops.

Divcon Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the contractor on the project and also designed it, says Chris Johnson, a project manager for Divcon. Construction on the project is expected to start this month and is projected to be completed in about six months, Johnson says.

Cherrywood Place, a three-story, 30,000-square-foot facility at 100 E. Dalke built in 1976, is owned by Milwaukee-based Extendicare Health Services Inc., a large operator of long-term care facilities in the U.S., including two other facilities here. Extendicare's other Spokane-area operations are Franklin Hills Health & Rehabilitation Center, a 100-bed, skilled-nursing home at 6021 N. Lidgerwood, on the North Side, and The Gardens on University, a 124-bed, skilled-nursing home at 414 S. University, in Spokane Valley.