Spokane builder-developer Eric Brown and prominent Pullman developer K. Duane Brelsford are working together again on the two latest in a series of apartment complex and commercial project collaborations.

Brown, owner of Brown Contracting & Development Inc., of Spokane Valley, says Brelsford has awarded him a contract to build a 180-unit apartment complex, called Pimlico Apartments, in Pullman, at an estimated construction cost of $10.5 million.

The 15-building complex, which is expected to cater mostly to Washington State University students, will be built on a site south of Terre View Drive and on the west side of Brandi Way, north of the WSU campus, Brown says. It will include 12 living units in each of the three-story residential structures, he says.

Design West Architects PA, of Pullman, designed the project.

Brown says excavation work began last month, and the entire project is expected to be completed by next May, weather allowing.

Separately, he says he will be building for Brelsford a 6,000-square-foot retail strip center, called Brelsford Retail, on Bishop Boulevard, near a Wal-Mart store southwest of the WSU campus. The construction cost for the building core and shell will be around $1 million, he says.

Concrete work on that project was expected to start this week, and the building should be completed by Dec. 1, he says.

The Washington State Employees Credit Union will occupy about half of the single-story structure, which will have drive-up banking lanes, Brown says. Brelsford also has lined up a couple of other as-yet-undisclosed tenants for the remaining space there, he says.

Nystrom + Olson Architecture, of Spokane, designed that project.

Of his longtime relationship with Brelsford, Brown says, "We've done six other sizable apartment projects in the past, as well as numerous commercial projects."

Over the years, Brown Contracting has handled a number of projects in the Moscow-Pullman area, and in some cases, Brown and Brelsford have formed joint development companies to pursue the projects.

Some of the projects the two developers have completed there, jointly and separately, include the Providence Court, Aspen Village, Pine Ridge, Maple Valley, Maple Street, Emerald Downs, and the Churchill Downs apartment complexes, and the Cedar Point Condos.