Cannabis plant, solar farm among airport development options
KAMLOOPS — With 36.2 hectares of land available for new developments, the Kamloops Airport is looking into a variety of new opportunities.
“We’re focusing on some of the groundside space at the airport, and the opportunities for development of some of the land space,” said Heather McCarley, managing director of the Kamloops Airport. “There’s one option located to the southwest of the airport, and it’s in the agricultural land reserve, there’s another spot that is north of the airport, and it’s to the northeast, and an additional spot that we’re looking at that is at the floatplane base.”
McCarley presented a number of options to Kamloops City Council on behalf of the airport and its parent company Vantage Airport Group.
Creating the most buzz were proposed developments of a solar farm or cannabis plant located in the agricultural land reserve.