Grocery store, daycare, assisted seniors housing planned for Black Mountain

A developer wants to start building a commercial centre in the Black Mountain area of Kelowna.

The City’s Official Community Plan calls for a 23.6-acre commercial centre for that neighbourhood. New Town Architecture and Engineering says in its submission to the City only six acres of commercial are needed between now and 2040.

Its applications start off with a proposal to develop the Loseth Centre, a small shopping centre on about 2.4 acres on the southwest corner of Loseth Road and Highway 33. It would include almost 27,000 square feet of commercial and retail space with a “medium-scaled” grocery store as an anchor in a building reaching up to four storeys.

Further commercial development is expected to come sometime in the future.

The submissions include a 50-space daycare, seniors assisted living facility and three residential buildings with 135 units reaching five stories.

There are a number of rezoning, development permit and development variance permit applications that have been submitted to the City recently. It will take several weeks for them to proceed to city council.

This is a rendering of the proposed commercial centre in the Black Mountain neighbourhood of Kelowna. | Credit: SUBMITTED / City of Kelowna

This is what the daycare may look like. | Credit: SUBMITTED / City of Kelowna

A rendering of the housing complex proposed for the Black Mountain neighbourhood in Kelowna. | Credit: SUBMITTED / City of Kelowna


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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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