A massive hotel slated to be built in downtown Kelowna is once again facing construction delays.
Westcorp’s plans to build its proposed 24-storey boutique hotel on the corner of Queensway Avenue and Mill Street. Kelowna Council approved the project in 2014, and construction was supposed to begin this March.
However, earlier this year the company pushed that timeline back due to complications arising from late construction drawings.
At the time, Westcorp said construction would take two years, and that it wanted the hotel open by late 2018 or early 2019.
Now, construction has once again been pushed back as the company considers redesigns of the building.
“We have been grappling with the notion of doing some revisions for a number of months now and believe that exploring them is the right thing to do,” Phil Milroy, the president and CEO of Westcorp said in a press release.
Wesetcorp did not elaborate on the nature of those “revisions.”
Gail Temple, Westcorp’s VP of operations, said the company plans to “work through our revisions in as timely a way as possible and present revisions in 2017.”
Construction is now expected to begin in late 2017. If the company sticks to its original timeline, that would mean a finished building by late 2019.
During the redesign, the company says the City of Kelowna will keep building permit fees, and the project won’t be suspended.
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