The Salvation Army Coeur d'Alene Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center opened barely a year ago, but its director already is proposing a parking expansion to handle membership growth that has exceeded expectations by a huge margin.

The director, Maj. John Chamness, says he has submitted a proposal to the Salvation Army's Western regional headquarters in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., to construct a parking deck, which would add 140 to 150 parking spaces atop the northwest portion of the center's 342-space surface parking lot.

Chamness estimates the structure would cost $1.8 million to $2.7 million, depending on its configuration. He says he doesn't know yet when the structure would be built or how it would be funded.

"It's just a concept at this point," he says. "We have an idea of where it would go and the approximate cost."

Chamness says the Kroc Center has been working with Robert B. Goebel General Contractor Inc., of Spokane, on the preliminary design for the project. Goebel was the general contractor on the $38 million Kroc Center, which is at the northwest corner of Ramsey and Golf Course roads a few blocks north of Interstate 90.

By its one-year anniversary last month, the Kroc center had 20,500 members—more than 10 times its original first-year goal of 2,000 members, Chamness says. The 123,000-square-foot complex includes an aquatic center, an indoor track, a chapel and performing arts theater, and other amenities.