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[The Great Scaper]

That's awesome. It's funny everyone on here is against starting a group as they fear the name "group" will have less impact on council dissicions than if everyone came to the meeting as seperate individuals off the street to speek out in favour of these condo/office building hearings. I see both sides to the argument but the good thing about having a group is that there can be possably more people to sign up and add weight.

How many people do you have in your group now???

[wisla_krakow]

I'm not to sure. There are really only "two" main people in it, and quite some supporters. Just look at the letters page.

[The Great Scaper]

I remember sending a letter to it a few months ago. --Cheers-- You should advertize your group for more members!

[wisla_krakow]

Good news everyone! Looks like an apartment block has been approved in the downtown.
This is great as we need many more apartments here.
http://movekelownaforward.com/Projec...rvey/index.cfm

It's called Aberdeen Apartments.

I hope you don't mind me using this picture.

[giallo]

It looks ok. I wonder how it'll meet the street?

[Delirious]

I don't dig it, I don't dig it at all. It looks like the buildings up at UBC okanagan north campus....blah.

[wisla_krakow]

Good news for Rutland.

From MoveKelownaForward

Jan 11, 2006 : Rutland Tower News
There's some new life coming for Rutland's uptown business core, with city council approval of a new 8-storey building at the corner of Highway-33 and Rutland Road.

City councilor Brian Given thinks the new building will provide a spark for more development in a key area of Rutland. The building will feature commercial space on its first four floors, with apartments on the upper floors.

The building, to be called the 'Four Way Centre', will sit on property once occupied by the Four Way food market, before it was torn down a number of years ago.

[The Great Scaper]

Where is Rutland?

[wisla_krakow]

The North-End.
It's pretty infamous for crime, drugs, and "bad" stuff. Thankfully it's being cleaned up. And, with these new buildings I think it will become quite the neighborhood.

[wisla_krakow]

Well, The Centuria now has a crane up. So, that's some good news.
There's a bunch of development in Rutland, thanks to the high-limit being lifted.

Here's a few buildings.

The 7 storey:




Some apartments:


And the Landmark III tower: (this isn't in Rutland)




Thanks to http://movekelownaforward.com

[The Great Scaper]

The top photo looks pretty good. It would be really cool if those three tall towers get built!!! --BB--

[wisla_krakow]

They are all getting built.

There was a really good story on Rutland Densification in the Capital News today. I'll see if I can post it.
Anyways, looks like there might be a new name for Rutland, "Uptown."

[The Great Scaper]

Exciting times indeed. I am really excited to see the changes happening here in Victoria too.

It's funny when I was kid in the 80s Prince George was always the next biggest city in B.C. Then Kelowna took off. I never here of anything happening in Prince George anymore. In 1970 Victoria was 150,000 now we are at 365,000. In 1970 P.G. was 75,000 people now it’s around 90,000. Where as Kelowna I believe is around the 150,000 mark.

It was always believed that Prince George would be B.C.'s Edmonton in the 60s but it never took off.

Try and post some more photos if you can!! Cheers --BB--

[giallo]

It is interesting that Kelowna took off. Kamloops was primed to be the big interior city. It's on Hwy 1 and it has (or had) some provincial government headquarters. The people in Kamloops have never really gotten over the snub.

[The Great Scaper]

I believe Kamloops has grown quite a bit too, though not to the extent that Kelowna has.

[MolsonExport]

The Coquihalla and Connector highways really set the boom for Kelowna. Shaved off 4 hours from Vancouver.

Edmonton has tremendous oil in the vicinity, while Prince George has....wood? Which of the two ingredients do you think would make the biggest difference for growth?

[wisla_krakow]

Definatly wood.

Yeah all the people from Kampoops don't really like us, but it's the same the other way too.


I'll try take some pictures of Westbank, and some under-construction and up-coming developments.

[The Great Scaper]

I never knew that Kelowna and Kamloops were so heatedly competitive!!

I started a thread in the Western Forum for Kelowna and other regions but nothing has been posted. I was hoping that people would jump on it, and that if it became popular it could become another sticky page but I don't see that happening. Huh....Anyways rivalries are a good thing!!!!

[Picture Me Rollin']

Originally Posted by Picture Me Rollin'

Some of you may be familiar with a luxurious condo development that has been in the construction stage for the past year called Playa Del Sol. Units are selling very fast. It looks like a solid investment opportunity with the booming economy in Kelowna. A high-end restaurant called Murrieta's (they just opened a location on Whyte Ave here in Edmonton and it looks fantastic) will be built with the resort. Phase 1 will be done in the spring. It is located a 9-iron away from the lake on the corner of Cook and Lakeshore. Here's the site: http://www.playadelsolkelowna.com/

If anyone has any pics they could post that would be great.

Anyone manage to get any pics? Or if anyone knows of anywhere where recent construction pics might be posted on the web, that would be helpful too.

The first phase of construction of Playa Del Sol has been postponed until August partly due to labour shortages.

[The Great Scaper]

http://www.playadelsolkelowna.com/ No offense but this is kind of an ugly building.