Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners plans to add to its portfolio of 15 affordable housing properties in Spokane County with the development of a 60-unit senior residential complex at 8001 E. Broadway, in Spokane Valley.

The 1.5-acre development site is located north of Broadway Avenue and about a block east of Centennial Middle School.

SNAP CEO Julie Honekamp says the housing project, tentatively dubbed Broadway Senior Housing, has collected over 90% of the capital needed to fund the development.

The senior housing complex will cost about $10.1 million to construct, according to an environmental application submitted to Washington state.  

"We're waiting on one last piece of funding," Honekamp says, referring to a request for federal funds to be made to U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.

Broadway Senior Housing incorporates funding from five other sources: funds awarded from Spokane Valley's allocation of American Rescue Plan Act, the Washington state Housing Finance Commission, Washington state Legislature, Washington state Housing Trust Fund, and Spokane County, according to project information provided by SNAP. 

"Affordable housing is amazingly complex," Honekamp says. 

Spokane-based ZBA Architecture PS is designing the senior housing development.

"Some of the pre-development architectural drawings (are) done, but not the full plan set yet," she says, adding that a general contractor likely will be selected in the fall.

Broadway Senior Housing will have 57 one-bedroom units and three two-bedroom units. The complex will be a four-story building with elevator service, and will target seniors 62 and older who have an income at or below 60% of the area median income.

Spokane Housing Authority will provide rental subsidies for up to half of the units, which will allow some residents to pay a maximum of 30% of their adjusted gross income in rent. 

SNAP purchased the land for $1.6 million in December 2022, Washington state tax information shows. The organization is partnering with a related entity and a low-income housing tax credit investor partner that will be named once all funding has been secured, according to project information.

Accessible units featuring options for vision-impaired  and hearing-impaired residents will help tenants age in place if mobility also becomes an issue. Residents also will have free 24-hour monitored emergency call systems, development plans show.

Supportive services also will be incorporated at the site to serve seniors, including offices for a service coordinator and health care or other service providers.

The service coordinator will be hired to help tenants connect to community resources provided by SNAP in addition to Meals on Wheels Silver Cafe, Catholic Charities Food 4 All produce, chore services, YMCA, Spokane County Library mobile services, Breast Intentions, and visiting nurses from Spokane Community Colleges.

Additional amenities include a community room with a kitchen, a small library area, quiet spaces, laundry facilities on each floor, walking paths and garden beds, and Wi-Fi throughout the building.

Occupancy is anticipated in late 2025, development plans indicate.

SNAP will manage the property through a new management company that the nonprofit formed last month, says Honekamp.

"We just formed a brand-new property management company," she says. "Historically, we've been working with third-party vendors to manage our affordable housing and have decided to bring that in-house in May. We want to make sure we sustain our assets, because it's hard to build that housing. We want to make sure our values around community, respect, justice, and equity are being lived out with our tenants."

Project updates:

*Spokane County is planning a new 16,300-square-foot operations office building at 1303 N. Cedar, according to permit information under review with the city of Spokane. 

Kyle Twohig, senior director of Public Works at Spokane County, says the development will cost about $15 million.

The 1-acre site will hold a combined shop and office building, parking, and associated stormwater facilities, according to information submitted to the state of Washington for capital project approval. The building will operate primarily as a field office for four Spokane County Public Works divisions and will accommodate a sign shop, a signal shop, a bridge crew, and construction inspection and materials testing, the application shows.

Upon delivery, anticipated in fall 2025, the building is expected to improve project quality and collaboration and reduce change orders.

The design-build team for the new operations building includes Integrus Architecture PS and Garco Construction Inc., both of Spokane.

The land, previously dubbed the Spokane Wilbert Vault site, is a brownfield site, according to Washington state Department of Ecology records. The site has been cleaned and complies with the state's cleanup law.