Interior Health has signed a contract with a builder for its new Community Health and Services Centre to go up in downtown Kelowna.
The new Interior Health building is set to be built at the corner of Doyle Avenue and Ellis Street, Urban Solutions Group has been awarded the contract to design, build and lease the new property.
Area where the new Interior Health building will be built (Photo Credit: Google Maps)
“The building itself will be five stories and house approximately 800 staff who will offer a wide variety of health-care services to support local patients,” said Norm Letnick, MLA, Kelowna-Lake Country. “These services include, Kelowna Mental Health, Seniors Mental Health, the Eating Disorders Clinic and the Community Ambulatory Treatment Clinic, among others.”
The Interior Health building is part of a series of major development projects slated for that area of downtown. The Library Parkade will see a $6.4 million expansion and another parkade will be constructed between the Memorial Arena and the Okanagan Heritage Museum with a price tag of $14.9 million.
This parkade is part of the Interior Health agreement with the city as they have partnered on the project by initially selling the land to Interior Health, and agreeing to construct parking to support the project.
Artist rendering of the Ellis Street Parkade (Photo Credit: City of Kelowna)
Interior Health will not own the building, set to open in summer 2016. Rather, it will have input into the design by the private sector of a building that suits the needs of Interior Health’s clients and employees.
Now that a builder has been chosen the projects can move forward as construction is expected to begin by the fall and be completed in early 2016.
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