More than 1,100 people have applied for 750 jobs at Comcast’s newest customer care center in Spokane, Wash., one of three the company said it would create as part of its initiative to add 5,500 new care workers in the next three years.

The Spokane center is expected to be opened in the summer of 2016, and is one of three new state-of-the-art care centers the company is building – the other two are in Tucson, Ariz., and Albuquerque, N.M. Comcast said in a blog posting by senior vice president of customer service Tom Karinshak Wednesday that it will be opening an interim facility – more than 50,000 square-feet located in Spokane Valley – so it can start hiring and providing customer assistance immediately. Since announcing the plan in May, Comcast has announced more than 2,250 new jobs associated with the initiative.

Comcast held a job fair in Spokane Tuesday to kick off the hiring process, with about 200 people in attendance. Representatives from various local organizations also attended, including local veterans groups in support of Comcast’s pledge to hire 10,000 reservists, veterans and their spouses or domestic partners by the end of 2017.

In the blog posting, Karinshak said that Comcast has received 2,200 applications for the Albuquerque center and more than 1,200 in Tucson and has already started to hire some people.

“The new hires in all three of these centers will help us bring customers across the country the support they need – it’s an important step toward our goal of making call wait times shorter and helping customers get their service or billing issues resolved faster,” Karinshak said in the blog.

Comcast said it plans to hold additional hiring activities and opening celebrations for the Spokane center later in the summer. Interested applicants can apply here.

Comcast continued to move forward on its plans to beef up customer service, announcing that it will open a new 100,000-square-foot customer support center in Tucson, Ariz., in the fall and will hire about 1,125 workers to staff it.

The supportcenter is one of three that Comcast said it would open by the end of 2017 – the others will be in Spokane, Wash. and Albuquerque, N.M. On May 5 in Chicago, during the INTX: Internet & Television Expo there, Comcast unveiled a sweeping customer service initiative that would include hiring about 5,500 customer service representatives during that period.

Comcast announced the Tucson plans in its “Voices” blog.

In the blog posted, senior vice president customer service Tom Karinshak said that at least 15% of the new positions at the Tucson Customer Support Center will be filled by military reservists, veterans and their spouses or domestic partners. Nationally, Comcast is committed to hiring 10,000 reservists, veterans and their spouses or domestic partners between 2015 and 2017 across all levels of the organization.

When the Tucson facility is completed, it will include product training labs, training rooms, video conference facilities, a cafeteria and a fitness center. The Tucson operation also will be home to Comcast ‘s new Spanish-speaking employees specializing in social media.

The bi-lingual Albuquerque customer service center was slated to open first and has already hired about 100 of the expected 450 employees for the site. All together Comcast said it plans to hire about 2,000 of the 5,500 new employees between now and early 2016. The company said it will provide further details on the Spokane operation soon.  

Hiring for the Tucson facility has already begun and Comcast said it has received “thousands” of applications already.

“These new hires will help us bring our customers, in Arizona and across the country, the support they need,” Karinshak said in the blog posting. “These additional hires will be an important step towards our goal of making call wait times shorter and helping customers get their service or billing issues resolved faster.”