9 floors senior citizens’ home
Photo: City of Kelowna
On the site of a former gas station that had been empty for more than a decade, more than just weeds could finally rise.
Later this month, a proposal will be made to the city council to convert the property on the corner of KLO and Lakeshore Streets into a nine-story, mixed-use senior housing project.
To move forward, the council must agree to change the height restriction from four to nine stories. The applicant also applies for a vehicle release to be set up within the development park structure.
The proposed L-shaped building would include a two-story podium with seven stories of living space above it.
It would accommodate 132 residential units.
The employees support the project in a report for the council. The revitalization of a former gas station into a mixed-use settlement will contribute to the positive “renovation and intensification” of the South Pandosy district.
“This project is the first major redevelopment in this section of Lakeshore Rd / Pandosy Street,” said an employee report.
“Employees are pursuing several other development scenarios that will further transform this auto-centric space into a mixed-use pedestrian environment and create more visual coherence over the next decade.
