COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - More than 50 people gathered for the groundbreaking for a new home for Shasta Groene, the lone survivor of a 2005 attack on a northern Idaho family.

The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house of 1,300 square feet will be held in trust for Groene, now 10, until she turns 25.

"This is huge," project organizer Midge Smock of Windermere Coeur d'Alene Realty told those who had gathered for the ceremony on Tuesday. "We're on phase two of Shasta's house. We still need money to pay for this lot, so send your money to Windermere."

Groene was kidnapped with her 9-year-old brother, Dylan Groene, from their Coeur d'Alene-area home.

Joseph Duncan III is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in state court to bludgeoning to death the children's mother, Brenda Groene; her fiance, Mark McKenzie, and Shasta's 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene. Duncan, a Tacoma, Wash., native who lived in Fargo, N.D., has also been charged in federal court in Boise with kidnapping Shasta and Dylan and killing the boy.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The new home is being built in Coeur d'Alene, and organizers said they expect it be finished, furnished and ready for Shasta by July 4. The house's location will allow her to continue going to school at Fernan Elementary, where she will be in fifth grade next year.

Smock, who is in charge of collecting money for the project, said about $50,000 has been raised, but that another $85,000 is needed.

She said the idea for the house came in a conversation she had with Steve Groene, Shasta's father, in September.

"He said, 'You know, we're homeless,'" Smock recalled. "I said, 'What?' I was shocked, totally shocked. I just couldn't believe that our Shasta, who's gone through layer after layer of horror, doesn't have a home."

Todd Stam, owner of Aspen Homes and Development, is in charge of construction.

"This has been an amazing project," Stam told The Spokesman-Review newspaper of Spokane, Wash.

"The whole community really stepped forward," added Fred Glisson, owner of Riverstone Stamp Concrete.

Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandi Bloom, one of those at the groundbreaking ceremony who helped cut the ribbon, said the amount of help from area residents didn't surprise her.

"It's what the community does," Bloem said.