78 units expected to be completed in the winter
The Park Apartments on the north side of Medical Lake, located east of Lake's Harvest Foods, should be completed sometime this winter.
MEDICAL LAKE-It has been tough to find housing on the West Plains recently, but a new option is coming soon. The Park Apartments have been under construction on the north end of the city and are expected to be ready for move-in this winter.
The 78-unit, three-building complex may have its first building done by the end of 2022, said Nick Brumback, president and co-owner of Brumback Commercial Real Estate and Brumback Construction, the company that owns and is constructing the complex.
Construction began last fall on the property located just northeast of Lakeside Apartments across the railroad tracks and northwest of the Subway/Pizza Oven plaza off Highway 902.
"Approximately two-thirds of the units are studio or one bedroom units," Brumback said. "The remaining one-third will be two-bedroom units."
Some two-bedroom units will have one bathroom, while others will have two bathrooms, he said.
Prices will be set later this fall, with the pre-leasing process beginning near the end of October, Brumback said.
"They will be market-competitive, but we don't set the prices yet," he said.
The apartments sit on a five-acre parcel, two acres of which are wetlands.
"We had to preserve that, so we're hoping to create a park-like atmosphere around the wetland," Brumback said...hence "The Park Apartments" moniker.
Brumback expects the units to attract families, military members at Fairchild Air Force Base looking for much needed off-base housing, college students and a growing industrial workforce with jobs on the West Plains.
"We will have a full-time staff member on site," Brumback said. "We'll have a secure room for mail parcels and some carports, but that's pretty much it for amenities."
The parcel was an attractive build for Brumback, which has completed residential projects like Fox Ridge here, the Cheney Duplexes and Cedar Flats in Spokane.
"There's essentially no multi-family zoned property in Medical Lake," Nick Brumback said. "There was a need for multi-family housing, so this was very attractive to us."
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