Architect's rendering of a proposed multi-unit housing building at 404 Tranquille Road. (Image Credit: City of Kamloops/Richard Hunter Architect Inc.)

By Victor Kaisar

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Tranquille Road to close for site servicing work as construction begins on new affordable housing building

Oct 20, 2025 | 6:00 AM

KAMLOOPS — The City of Kamloops will be doing site servicing work in the 400-block of Tranquille Road for almost the next two weeks so a six-storey affordable housing building can rise on the North Shore.

There will be a single lane of alternating traffic from Monday (Oct. 20) until Sunday (Oct. 26) so work can take place on the boulevard in the area. A full closure of Tranquille Road at Mackenzie Avenue will then take effect from Oct. 27 to Oct. 30.

“It’s a development servicing tie in for a BC Housing project that is going in there. We needed to tie in that building to services like water and sewer,” Matt Kachel, the city’s infrastructure delivery manager, said.

“When the building was approved, we were also required to do the service connections for them.”

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The intersection of Tranquille Road and MacKenzie Avenue, adjacent to the site of the new housing development, circled in red. (Image Credit: Google Maps)

Kachel said while the project has been on the books for a while, it is being done now as work on the Overlanders Bridge has wrapped up.

“We didn’t want to do anything that impacted that area while the bridge was being worked on,” Kachel added. “As soon as the bridge was done, people will have noticed that we went right over to start that project.”

Work on Tranquille Road is scheduled to occur Monday through Thursday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, with work on Friday as well, if required. There may be temporary sidewalk closures in effect and people are asked to obey all signs and traffic control personnel.

Kachel told CFJC Today that while the work won’t take very long, the city was not able to complete it without shutting down Tranquille Road as a “significant amount” of work is needed at the Mackenzie Avenue intersection.

“We need to get at the water and sewer main,” he added. “The pipe is quite deep and it’s in the middle of the road, so the entire road has to get closed.”

There will be detours in place so people can navigate the construction zone, though speaking Friday (Oct. 17), Kachel wasn’t able to say off hand what those detours might look like.

“There will be a full detour to move everyone around,” he said. “Our traffic department would have issued a full permit based on that allowing everyone still get around, but it might take a little longer.”

Interior Community Services has been working on this building since 2018 after it got provincial funding to work on plans that were derailed by COVID-19. The new building was then announced three years ago, and it will include a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom units for low to moderate income individuals, families, seniors, and people with disabilities.

Construction began earlier this month and it is expected to wrap up sometime in 2027.