Doctor takes a different approach to apartments
It was a unique launch for a new-concept retail-office-apartment complex near Kelowna’s waterfront.
Earlier this week, instead of the traditional groundbreaking with shovels and hard hats, the launch of The Shore on Lakeshore Road across the street from Gyro Beach saw the developer and the project manager on paddleboards on Okanagan Lake.
They dipped their paddles in the water and declared construction started on The Shore.
The Shore’s catchy design features a courtyard surrounded by ground-floor shops and restaurants and second-floor office space with four storeys of 103 apartments on top.
The apartments will be rented out mostly to students of nearby Okanagan College from September through April and then will be short-term summer rentals May through August.
The concept ideally caters to two seasonal markets that don’t overlap, allowing the developer to maximize occupancy and revenue.
Construction has already started and completion is expected for September 2019.
All the apartments have balconies and have access to an expansive third-floor roof-top terrace.
The developer is Dr. Greg Appelt of Rise Commercial Developments, who started in the construction industry to have the building that includes his Kelowna Allergy & Respiratory Clinic built at nearby 3975 Lakeshore Rd.
He also developed the Sterling Centre in Vernon which has medical offices upstairs and a Remedy RX pharmacy at street level.
Worker housing
seasonal workers.
Watermark Beach, Spirit Ridge and the Town of Osoyoos formed the non-profit Osoyoos Employee Housing Society to bring in the housing.
The move also has the support of the Osoyoos Hotel and Motel Association and Destination Osoyoos.
The complex should be housing workers by June 1.
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May 28. The new showroom and warehouse will be double the size and there will be 10 parking stalls right out front and four bay doors for quick loading and unloading.
All Occasions rents everything you need for a wedding, party or corporate event from tents, tables and chairs, linens, china, flatware and glasses to lighting, bar equipment, stage, dance floor and carpet.
It is also renting new lines of lounge furniture that runs the gamut from vintage to hyper-modern white.
April and Dwayne Ranson started All Occasions 21 years ago with a location on Windsor Road.
They outgrew that address seven years ago and moved to Spedding Court only to expand again and require bigger digs on Appaloosa Road.
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