Innovation Centre

Redesign of tower on former Kelowna RCMP site grows to 25 storeys
In response to public pressure, the design of a new downtown Kelowna highrise has been…

Techstarts looking for Kelowna startups who want to follow their dreams
KELOWNA – Entrepreneurs with brilliant but untried ideas can team up with like-minded people and…

Learn what not to do in business at upcoming series of talks in Kelowna
CONTENT ADVISORY KELOWNA – You learn more from losses than from wins. That’s the thought…

Innovation centre will be unique to the province
KELOWNA – With the new innovation centre set to open by the end of the…

Construction and new demand in downtown Kelowna creating parking crunch
KELOWNA - Development in downtown Kelowna is surging, putting a premium on parking spaces, and forcing the city to come up with a plan to deal with perceived shortages over the next three years. Kelowna city council will hear from parking manager Dave Duncan today who prepared the interim parking strategy based on a report...

Road hogging continues as big block construction projects dominate downtown
KELOWNA - If you think Kelowna has endured a lot of big-ticket construction projects in the last few years, you would be right. If you thought it was over, you would be wrong. A number of large building projects, and all that goes with it — detours, lost parking spaces, narrowed roadways — have either...

City doing swimmingly despite economic uncertainty
KELOWNA - The rest of the world may be in financial turmoil, but Kelowna continues to do fine, at least as measured by our performance as a community last quarter. “There is lots of volatility in the global economic climate,” the city’s community planning director Doug Gilchrist told council, while presenting them with positive numbers...