Greyhound property for sale
He was most recently director of international sales and marketing at Vail Resorts’ headquarters in Colorado.
“It is my great pleasure to be joining the team at Silver Star Mountain Resort to help promote the fantastic resort and community,” said Jenkins.
“With a new gondola, year-round activities, as well as an abundance of light, dry snow, it has everything needed for a great mountain holiday.”
Silver Star expects to open for the season sometime mid-to-late November.
The resort has 3,282 acres of skiable terrain, a 760 metre vertical drop and annual snowfall of about seven metres. between Kelowna and Seattle twice daily, is working with Helsinki-based Neste to implement the use of such sustainable aviation biofuels.
Traditional plane fuels are petroleum oil-based and create harmful-to-the-environment greenhouse gas emissions and turbine emissions.
Adoption of such renewable fuels would not just reduce emissions, but potentially improve plane performance and airline operations.
Neste is a producer of such
What could make the Greyhound Bus property in Kelowna worth $6 million?
Likely a redevelopment of the two acres at the corner of Leckie Road and Enterprise Way to higher-density commercial.
With Greyhound going out of business Oct. 31, the scruffy Greyhound depot and the land it sits on is up for sale for $6 million with HM Commercial Group, which is licensed by Macdonald Realty Kelowna.
The listing on HM’s website calls the property a “valuable opportunity for a centrally located income-producing building with upside potential through redevelopment (and-or) densification.”
The building is 9,228 square feet and is located in a prime location beside the Best Western Hotel with exposure to busy Highway 97 and walking distance to Central Park and Orchard Park malls, Canadian Tire, Safeway, restaurants and transit.
The property is already zoned C4 (urban centre commercial) and C10 (service commercial) which allows everything from hotels, condominiums, apartments and offices to gas station, retail, restaurants, brewery, distillery, arcade and light manufacturing.
Steve MacNaull is The Okanagan Weekend’s business and wine reporter and columnist. Reach him at steve.macnaull@ok.bc.ca.