City announces new beachfront park for Kelowna

KELOWNA – The City of Kelowna has announced the purchase of a piece of lakeshore property that will allow for the creation of a new beachfront park.

Mayor Colin Basran says the city has spent $12 million acquiring the property located on Lakeshore Drive near Lexington Road.

"This will create a legacy for our community for generations," Basran says.

He says the new beach park, while still several years from completion, will be comparable in size to Rotary Beach.

The mayor says city staff alerted council to the potential opportunity to buy the parcel, which was sold on the open market.

"We jumped on it right away," Basran says.

The purchase will be funded through city's development cost charge program and park reserve.

To contact a reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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