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How Kelowna firefighters handled rare highrise fire last weekend
While it’s unusual for Kelowna firefighters to battle blazes in highrises, from a manpower point…
Legacy group calls for investigation into ‘bait and switch’ on former RCMP site
Now that new development plans have come forward for a highrise on city-owned land in…
This B.C. highrise will be tallest in Canada outside Toronto
The dramatic increase in the number and height of highrises in Kelowna, and two coming…
Why Kelowna may be heading toward a downtown highrise overbuild
The most visible sign that Kelowna is the fastest growing major metropolitan area in Canada…
Three more highrises planned for downtown Kelowna
An 80-room hotel is included in a proposal to build three highrises in downtown Kelowna.…
No public hearing needed for Okanagan’s next 35-storey highrise
An application to rezone downtown Kelowna land for one of the city’s highest buildings does…
Here’s how Kelowna could increase population by 25,000 in downtown core
Current plans allow for 10,968 new housing units to be built in Kelowna’s downtown core.…
Petition triggers redesign of controversial downtown Kelowna highrise
First it was the Kelowna Legacy Group fighting against a City of Kelowna plan to…
Innovative ‘agile’ work space may push buildings to 9 storeys in Kelowna’s North End
Clement Avenue, in the North End of Kelowna’s downtown, has been transformed in recent years…
2 highrise towers to be ‘jewel-like centrepiece’ of UBCO’s downtown Kelowna campus
Kelowna-based Mission Group has submitted plans for two towers that will make up the three-tower…
Tallest building in Kelowna’s Rutland neighbourhood proposed
After a flurry of highrise proposals for downtown Kelowna last winter dribbled to a halt…
Kelowna’s Brooklyn highrise 70% sold even before presentation centre opens
The Mission Group isn’t opening its presentation centre for the Brooklyn highrise in downtown Kelowna…
Kelowna highrise sells out within 48 hours of going on sale
The first of three residential highrise towers in the Water Street by the Park development…
Application for Kelowna’s tallest highrise ‘feels like a PR stunt’: Councillor
Kelowna city council unanimously rejected a proposal today for what could have been the city’s…
City council may reject plan for tallest highrise in Kelowna
Developers of a proposed 46-storey highrise in downtown Kelowna have already scaled it down to…
No highrises in West Kelowna’s future except for a winery tower
West Kelowna’s population is expected to jump by almost 20,000 people by 2050 but no…
Controversial downtown Kelowna highrise looking to cast widest shadow in town
A 13-storey tower proposed to tie the former Kelowna RCMP detachment lands downtown to the…
New downtown Kelowna developments finally show what CD-21 could have been
There once was a plan to transform the downtrodden south end of Kelowna’s downtown into…
Kelowna’s Water Street by the Park has 10 times more interest in suites than actual suites
It wasn’t that long ago that the 200 block of Leon Avenue in downtown Kelowna…
Design for 42-storey high rise project in downtown Kelowna taking shape
Vancouver architects behind the design of Mount Boucherie Winery will be continuing the design of…
Third 40-plus storey tower proposed for downtown Kelowna
Ground won’t be broken on the downtown Kelowna UBC Okanagan campus for more than a…
Developer has tight timeline if Kelowna’s ‘worst place in town’ is going to be transformed
Anthony Beyrouti wants help from Kelowna city staff and council so he can dramatically change…