The development team making plans to build Kelowna's tallest high-rise will be hosting a public open house on its proposal.
The two towers at Sunset Drive and Clement would have 378 condo units, with one tower rising 29 storeys - and the other getting all the way up to 36.
Kerkhoff Construction's VP Leonard Kerkhoff says when compared to something like the Aqua project in the Mission, the location of these buildings would allow them to build taller.
"For this location, creating the tall, slender pencil towers would be more appropriate. It's the same density (as Aqua), roughly, but if you take half the building and set it on top of the other half, having a tall skinny building instead of a shorter, fatter building, you optimize the units for the units. Residents in the units are able to see the Lake higher levels up," he said.
He also says the 21-storey building up the street at 1151 Sunset helped set the stage for this design.
"1151 (Sunset) has been a very closely-watched project in the Kelowna market, being the first concrete tower to go up in a very long time," he said.
"It's been a real market-tester, and the strength of the Kelowna market is really showing through with 1151. So keeping that program rolling into these next two towers only makes sense."
Kerkhoff says after working with city staff, the project would be built in phases.
"We. in working with the city councillors, have chosen to go with the taller building in the first phase, directly across the street from (Prospera Place)," he said.
"The reason for that is that provides the city with a finished product on three street frontages, should the second phase not continue on and get built."
He says he expects the project to move forward to council for re-zoning approval by the end of this month, with a development permit coming after that, if the re-zoning is successful.
The open house is happening on June 7, between 5 and 7 pm at the Laurel Packinghouse.