A building permit application has been submitted to construct a new primary health care clinic at 130 E. Sprague, where the former Spokane Roofing Co. building was recently demolished.

The proposed outpatient clinic will be part of a collaborative partnership between Community Health Association of Spokane, or CHAS Health, and Frontier Behavioral Health.

Spokane-based Bouten Construction Co. is listed as the contractor for the project and ALSC Architects PS, also of Spokane, is the project architect.

Carla Savalli, public information officer for Frontier, notes via email that since the latest coverage of the project by the Journal of Business, additional funding sources for construction are being explored.

The building permit application shows a project valuation of about $6.8 million.

In addition to a 9,700-square-foot clinic, a parking lot will be developed at the roughly 16,000-square-foot site, the permit application shows.

The clinic will link patients of Frontier to primary care providers and connect CHAS patients to mental health treatment.

CHAS will lease the new building from Frontier, which owns the lot located just east of its downtown campus.

Interior design plans show eight exam rooms of about 100 square feet in size each, an 800-square-foot waiting area, a 660-square-foot staff breakroom, a 655-square-foot pharmacy, and a 245-square-foot reception space.

The clinic also will have seven 100-square-foot outpatient rooms for behavioral health and other health care uses, bathrooms, a storage room, a small call center, and other flexible office spaces, according to planning documents.

Frontier Behavioral Health purchased the former roofing company property in July 2023 for $1.2 million, tax records show.

CHAS, a nonprofit, provides medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy care and operates about 25 locations in the Inland Northwest.

Frontier provides behavioral health care and related services to people of all ages through collaboration with community partners. The nonprofit has nearly 20 locations in Spokane County.

—Dylan Harris