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By Aaron Schulze

Hotel to Housing and Back Again

Kamloops property slated for multi-family housing building could become hotel site again

Mar 11, 2024 | 6:05 AM

KAMLOOPS — Hotel to housing and back to a hotel.

That’s what Mundi Construction is hoping to achieve with a property on 1270 Rogers Way next to the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre in Aberdeen.

In a report to Kamloops council ahead of Tuesday’s (March 12) regular meeting, city staff say construction has begun on the underground parking lot for a multi-family building. Although citing material costs and labour shortage challenges, the report states Mundi Construction wishes to revert the property back to a hotel site and construct a six-storey, 157-room building on the recently constructed underground parking structure.

The property was originally approved by council for the construction of a 99-unit, five-storey hotel on Sept. 10, 2019. Fast forward two years to Oct. 19, 2021, Mundi Construction requested the property to be rezoned to permit a 104-unit, six-story multi-family building, citing uncertainty following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report adds the City of Kamloops’ Development, Engineering and Sustainability Department supports the application due to short-term rental accommodation restrictions imposed by the B.C. government, along with its location to other hotel and conference centres and its proximity to the Trans Canada Highway.

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