Whitewater Creek Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, has received building permits from the city of Post Falls to construct 50 town houses and a community center building in a project valued at an estimated $3.9 million in the 250-acre Tullamore mixed-use development, city documents show.

Whitewater Creek is listed in a state document as an affiliate of Tullamore Seniors LLC, of Hayden, Idaho, which received $590,000 in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for the housing project.

The property is located west of state Route 41, between Poleline and Prairie avenues.

Vision First LLC, of Eagle, Idaho, did the initial site work on the property, and planned a much larger development there in 2007, but sold the site to Whitewater Creek, says Collin Coles, senior planner for the city of Post Falls.

Whitewater Creek received permits last fall for another project, called Tullamore Commons, a 50-unit, $4 million affordable family housing development that's adjacent to the site for the senior town houses. Tullamore Commons LP, also associated with Whitewater Creek, is developing that project, and received $500,000 in low-income tax credits from the Idaho Housing and Finance Association and $1.1 million in federal funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Tullamore Seniors development will include nine one-story buildings, each of which will have four to six low-income rental units. It also will include a one-story community center building.

Representatives for Whitwater Creek, Tullamore Seniors, and Tullamore Commons couldn't be reached for comment. Post Falls City Engineer Bill Melvin, however, says the senior housing project is scheduled to be completed this fall. Sheila Gates-Ping, of Zeck Butler Architects PS, of Spokane, says the senior apartments will be painted in colors and will have cultured stone work similar to the two-story Tullamore Commons family homes.

Cater-cornered from the Tullamore site, at the northeast corner of Prairie and state Route 41, Cincinnati-based Phillip Edison Development Co. has bought property for a 500,000-square-foot shopping center. No work has been done yet at that site, Coles says.

Whitewater Creek has constructed other senior housing developments with community centers in North Idaho, including Heartland Senior Housing, at 7745 N. Heartland Drive, in Coeur d'Alene, and Hayden Senior Housing, at 92 W. Sargent Drive, in Hayden. Each project was valued at just over $2 million and included 30 residential units.