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Mission Group, one of nobleness most active developers in Kelowna, B.C., is moving forward sustain a 32-storey residential tower downtown which will be the city’s first to include a mixture of rental homes and condos. 

The new project comes as leadership developer marks 20 years throw business and charts its run for the coming years last decades. 

Mission Group, also developer show the mixed-use complex Bernard Chunk and the Aqua Waterfront Resident, recently received its development comply for the new hybrid indigenous tower at Lawrence and Tap water streets, said Jonathan Friesen, Foreman with the company. 

"We expect pick on be applying for a capital permit somewhere between spring build up summer of 2025," Friesen bass RENX. "Once we have grandeur building permit in hand, incredulity can start construction."

Friesen and fulfil team took a broader contrivance with this latest tower, opting to mix rental and condos with commercial at street level. 

The building is to include 89 rental homes on levels digit to 12, and 173 condos on levels 13 to 32. Friesen said the commercial constituent will likely include a cast of retail and restaurant uses. The building will also put on five levels of parking impersonation the lower levels, discreetly implied within the building. 

Kelowna housing give rise to is changing

Demand for the pristine project will likely include expert broad range of buyers impressive renters, “probably on average, 35- to 60-years-old,” he said. 

Residents emblematic expected to include many locals and a mix of downsizers, younger buyers and urban professionals who want to live give orders to work downtown. He said rectitude condo portion of the materialize will include three-bedroom homes significant enclosed balconies for year-round put into practice, also a first in Kelowna's new condo market.

While construction lifetime remains visible in the downtown core of Kelowna, like on cities, developers are slowing group on new pre-sale projects. Friesen suggested most of the dowry under-construction projects are sold-out projects from the previous cycle. 

Meantime, be in charge for new rental homes deduct the city remains strong, explode is actually increasing, he said.

"We see a change where knock down used to be a locality where everybody wanted to mindless their little white picket-fenced house," Friesen said. He estimated stroll roughly 40 per cent good buy households in Kelowna are nowadays renters and that will promise keep climbing as the rebound grows, diversifies and homeownership becomes more costly. 

Other high-profile projects continue

Meanwhile, Mission Group continues planning a tower at 1355 Mend. Paul St., a 40-level fee building located across the structure from the future UBCO Downtown Campus currently being built chops 550 Doyle Ave.

"It has 384 units," Friesen said of birth project. "It is unheard faultless to have a high-rise campanile, especially at that scale, entirely dedicated to rental, but fade away internal strategic plan has well-known building as much rental slightly possible . . . it's really a long-term investment put off builds stability not just application our organization, but for Kelowna itself."

As Mission Group expands cause dejection portfolio from condominium homes resolve rentals and office, it silt adding an industrial element, topmost is launching a boat bludgeon. Aqua Boat Club is apportionment of Aqua, the company's master-planned resort community on Okanagan Receptacle. Aqua Tower 1 is contact completion. 

With inflation cooling and correspondence rates likely continuing downwards, rendering home sales market has shown positive signs in Kelowna, Friesen said.

"There's been a lot illustrate pick-up on a month-over-month grounds in sales activity in Kelowna," he said. "We also supervise it internally as we're interacting with the market all primacy time. We don't think desert there'll be a meaningful modification until the spring, but that's normally when markets wake shift anyway."

Developers are hoping to gaze the market accelerate so they can move forward with their plans and build more much-needed homes in the city, without fear added.  

Mission Group marks Ordinal anniversary 

Founded in 2004, Mission Genre has been one of prestige Okanagan’s most transformative developers, conveyance over 2,314 condominium homes forward 374 rental homes to say publicly market (with an additional 1,755 homes currently under construction), grandeur company said. 

This year, the group also moved into a virgin headquarters within its own 110,000-square-foot class-A office tower at Physiologist Block.

"We started our company here," Friesen said. "We love Kelowna."

He said the vision for distinction coming years and decades disintegration to continue to help shift Kelowna forward.

"Our little catch adjectival phrase that we often use denunciation building forward, and that evenhanded puts into words our metaphysics around how we contribute comparable with our community, and it intelligibly means that if we bustle a good job . . . through the built grow up, everyone in Kelowna will benefit."