News Items tag as: Mission Group

City and developer ensure $310,000 Kelowna crane collapse memorial goes ahead
July 11, 2024 - 4:30 PM

Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the crane tower collapse that killed five people in downtown Kelowna, and the money for their memorial has been secured.
The Block is drawing workers back to the office in Kelowna but slowly
December 31, 2023 - 6:00 PM

Kelowna’s newest office tower, The Block, is almost finished and while spaces haven’t been snapped up nearly as fast as the builders would have liked, they are optimistic it will be a huge success in the long run.
2 highrise towers to be 'jewel-like centrepiece' of UBCO’s downtown Kelowna campus
January 11, 2022 - 11:48 AM
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Kelowna-based Mission Group has submitted plans for two towers that will make up the three-tower UBC Okanagan downtown complex.
$24M sale of Kelowna waterfront property will trigger hundreds of millions in economic impact
December 15, 2021 - 2:33 PM

It’s not because Mission Group spent almost $24 million to buy a four-acre industrial site that’s important to Kelowna. It’s what’s ultimately going to be built on the B.C. Tree Fruits site next to the former Tolko mill on the waterfront in Kelowna’s North End.
Kelowna breaks the $1 billion mark in building permits issued this year
October 30, 2021 - 6:30 AM
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For the first time ever, the City of Kelowna has issued more than $1 billion worth of building permits in a single year.
Mission Group working with families of Kelowna crane collapse victims to design memorial
October 29, 2021 - 10:47 AM

As new tower cranes are being erected near the site of a deadly collapse that killed five men this summer, plans are underway by the developer to build a suitable memorial.
More than 200 storeys of housing planned for this short downtown Kelowna street
March 23, 2021 - 9:00 PM
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The latest development proposal for Bertram Street in downtown Kelowna calls for 16 storeys and 133 rental housing units.
iN VIDEO: Three waterfront towers planned for Kelowna’s South Mission
January 25, 2021 - 6:00 PM

An application has been filed with the City of Kelowna to allow for three towers reaching up to 17 storeys to be built in the South Mission part of the city.
High-rise proposed for parking lot in downtown Kelowna
July 13, 2017 - 2:38 PM

KELOWNA - A parking lot in downtown Kelowna could become a 20-storey high-rise if a development proposal going before city council gets approved.
Lakeside Aqua Resort to go ahead to development proposal
May 03, 2017 - 7:02 AM

KELOWNA - The Mission Group has been given the unanimous green light from council to move forward with plans to build a high-rise, lakeside community resort.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

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Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

News Items tag as: Mission Group

City and developer ensure $310,000 Kelowna crane collapse memorial goes ahead

The Block is drawing workers back to the office in Kelowna but slowly

2 highrise towers to be 'jewel-like centrepiece' of UBCO’s downtown Kelowna campus

$24M sale of Kelowna waterfront property will trigger hundreds of millions in economic impact

Kelowna breaks the $1 billion mark in building permits issued this year

Mission Group working with families of Kelowna crane collapse victims to design memorial

More than 200 storeys of housing planned for this short downtown Kelowna street

iN VIDEO: Three waterfront towers planned for Kelowna’s South Mission

High-rise proposed for parking lot in downtown Kelowna

Lakeside Aqua Resort to go ahead to development proposal

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