T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane, says it has been awarded two more contracts for out-of-town projects totaling about $12 million. It also recently won an $800,000 project to make improvements at Garry Middle School here, and is working on a smaller project on east Sprague Avenue.

One of the large out-of-town contracts, worth $9.5 million, is for construction of an elementary school in Moses Lake, Wash., and the other, worth $2.5 million, is for construction of a church in Deer Park.

Steve Sunleaf, a project manager with T.W. Clark, says the company expects to begin building the 46,000-square-foot Park Orchard Elementary School in Moses Lake shortly, and the project is expected to take 14 months to complete. NAC/Architecture Inc., of Spokane, designed the school.

The project is one of two new elementary schools and a number of other capital projects that will be funded with proceeds from a $33.8 million capital construction bond that Moses Lake School District patrons approved in February 2007, the school district's Web site says. The other new elementary school, which is called Sage Point and is similar in design to Park Orchard, opened last fall.

The Park Orchard school will be constructed on a 10-acre site that the district owns on Paxson Road and will help alleviate crowded conditions at four other schools when it opens for the 2011-2012 school year, the Web site says.

In Deer Park, the new St. Mary Presentation Church that T.W. Clark will construct at 602 E. Sixth St. is to be a 22,000-square-foot, wood-frame structure that will include worship and office space, meeting rooms, and a general-purpose room, Sunleaf says.

The parish plans to move there from a smaller, older church building at 310 N. Main St. and to sell that property, he says. T.W. Clark began work on that project last week and hopes to complete it by February, he says. Architects West Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, designed the church.

Those projects are among a number of out-of-town contracts T.W. Clark has landed recently. Others, reported earlier in the Journal, include a $3.2 million expansion of Sun Valley Elementary School in the Sunnyside, Wash., School District and a $2.4 million support-services building for the Walla Walla, Wash., School District.

For Spokane Public Schools, T.W. Clark will start work next week on the improvements at Garry Middle School, at 725 E. Joseph, says Tom Clark, co-owner of the company. That work will include upgrades to the entryway, library, and some classrooms, some repainting, and replacement of one of several exterior stair towers at the school with an enclosed stair tower, Clark says.

Separately, in the small project at 2102 E. Sprague, for which a value wasn't disclosed, T.W. Clark is constructing a new facade on a building used by the Evergreen Club and also is installing two new grand entrances, Clark says. The Evergreen Club, operated by nonprofit Spokane Mental Health, provides rehabilitation and vocational services to people with severe psychiatric disabilities, Spokane Mental Health's Web site says. NAC is the architect on that project, which is expected to be completed next month.