Site preparation work is underway for several multi-storey apartment buildings at the former BCK property in Owen Sound.
Chief Operating Officer of Kingsley Management, one of the partner organizations for the project, Geoff McMurdo says construction began a week ago at 1144 1st Avenue West with the removal of the remaining trees at the site.
“In the next days, weeks you will see proper construction fencing going up and then really the first major task is for us to start crushing the old foundation from the BCK site and there is various areas of various age where that foundation exists. You will see some of the heavy machinery doing that prep work to get ready for us to pour foundations and put the piles in the ground. That is all going to happen throughout this fall,” says McMurdo.
The project includes building six, four-storey apartment buildings with 224 total rental units at the former Black Clawson-Kennedy property, as well as an amenity building and 280 parking spaces.
The majority of the units will be market priced, and about 10 per cent will be affordable.
He adds the first building should be ready to occupy by next fall and they will take a phased approach to complete the rest.
“We won’t complete one building and start the next,” says McMurdo. “We would start the first foundation then work our way up and then move on to the foundation of building B etc.”
They aim to finish the construction of all six buildings as quickly as possible and move to occupancy accordingly.
McMurdo says the property was purchased back in the 1990s and there have been different iterations of the project.
“I think the initial concept might have been condos, but for various reasons and timing in the past, it just never made sense to bring it to market,” McMurdo says. “But now is the time.”
There is a ground breaking ceremony planned for mid-October.
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