Image Credit: CFJC Today

By Adel Ahmed

City Gardens

Tower construction in City Gardens project ahead of schedule

Mar 31, 2023 | 4:33 PM

KAMLOOPS — Just over a year after they first broke ground, crews continue to work away at City Gardens, the 525-housing-unit project in downtown Kamloops. The current development that’s being worked on, Trillium Tower, was intially supposed to be complete by summer 2025. Twelve months after crews first broke ground, the 24-storey building’s completion date is ahead of schedule.

“Right now, our construction contractors are telling us it’s hopefully early 2025 that the first building will be open — so that’s been exciting,” said President of Kelson Group Property Management Jason Fawcett. “We have been working on the parkade. If anyone drives by the site you can see our big hole but the parkade is now 20 per cent complete,”

President of the Canadian Home Builders Association Central Interior Tom Calne says, in addition to City Gardens, the development of other housing projects is a positive sign for the city moving forward.

“We have this project, we have projects going up on the corner of… I think Canary Lofts was just approved,” said Calne. “It’s nice to see that the development community, our members as well as the planning department in the city and as well as council starting to look at these infill projects.”

One Man's Opinion

COLLINS: North Shore BIA working hard to develop a 'happening place'

39m ago

1000 Ways to Heal

1000 Ways to Heal: Moons

Dec 10, 2024

Question of the Week

Should Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson apologize or resign after it was found he breached a section of council's code of conduct for allowing false or misleading information to be communicated?

Dec 09, 2024

As for future projects in Kamloops, Kelson Group says there are no plans as of now but the company is open to ideas.

“100 per cent of our focus for our Kamloops developments are happening [at City Gardens]. We do have a pretty big rental project under construction in Prince George and in Surrey. But for Kamloops at the moment, City Gardens is our focus.”