A Monroe, Wash., company is developing a $9.8 million apartment complex along Upriver Drive here, just east of a large complex it also developed.


The company, Rudeen Development LLC, has started site work for the planned 114-unit development, for which Spokane County issued building permits earlier this month, says county building technician Robin Burris.


Representatives of Rudeen Development, which is listed on county documents as the developments owner and builder, couldnt be reached for comment.


The project site is located at 4909 E. Upriver, north across that street from the Spokane River and Centennial Trail. The site is bordered by Buckeye Avenue to the north, but its unclear whether the development will be accessible from that street.


Plans submitted to the county show that the complex will include 10 apartment buildings. That includes six two-story townhouse structures with nine living units apiece, and four three-level buildings, each with 15 units.


The square footages of the planned apartment units and the apartment buildings werent available through the county.


The complex, to be called Bentley Apartments, also will include a recreation building near its entrance along Upriver Drive and a couple of multiple-bay garage structures.


Donald E. Neraas Architect, of Spokane, designed the complex.


The Bentley Apartments site is just east of the sprawling Beau-Rivage apartment complex. Rudeen developed the first 132 living units in that complex in the mid-1990s, then added 108 units there a few years later.


The new complex also is near the Riverwalk Point apartment development that Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs has started and is characterized by multicolored structures in which sustainable building practices have been used. The 53-unit first phase of that project was completed last fall.