Redmond, Wash.-based Eddie Bauer Inc. plans to open an outlet store at the Spokane Valley Plaza in mid-November.


Summit Property Development, a division of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, is developing an 8,500-square-foot store there for Eddie Bauer, says Lorri Taylor, who handles sales and leases for Summit at the shopping center, which is located at the northeast corner of Broadway Avenue and Sullivan Road.


The store is to be located at the western edge of the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. parking lot, she says. It will be aligned with, but will be a short distance from, the strip-center building that houses Ross Dress for Less, a Michaels Stores Inc. craft shop, and Toys R Us. Summit hopes eventually to extend the strip center all the way to the planned Eddie Bauer if it can secure tenants for that additional space, Taylor says.


Summit has started site work for the planned store and hopes to begin construction within weeks, Taylor says.


A Spokane County building permit application lists Vandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, as the contractor on the project and Russell Page Architects, also of Spokane, as the buildings designer. The county has estimated the value of the building at $344,000.


Its great to bring an outlet store back to that market, says Lurma Rackley, an Eddie Bauer spokeswoman. The company operated an outlet store in downtown Spokane for many years. That store closed in 1997, just before Eddie Bauer opened its current downtown store in River Park Square.


Eddie Bauer also operates a retail store at NorthTown Mall. The planned outlet in the Valley will sell clearance items primarily from the two Spokane stores at prices 30 percent to 70 percent lower than regular prices, Rackley says.