b'PROJECT PROFILEDesign rendering courtesy of Mission Group.PENTICTONS RENAISSANCE285 WESTMINSTER ADDS 75 NEW RESIDENTIAL UNITS TO A GROWING NEIGHBOURHOOD BY WARREN HEELEYenticton is undergoing acommunity, says Luke Turri, Executiveattracting people to work and live in the P renaissance. For most of itsVice President of Mission Group. Thesecitys core, we felt it was the right time to history on the southern shorecircumstances led us to believe a rentalenter the Penticton market.of Okanagan Lake, Penticton was viewedproperty was ideal for this location.as a summertime community with aFormed in 2004, Kelowna-based SICATHE PROJECTquaint atmosphere. The citys population between summer and winter fluctuatedmember Mission Group is a full-cycleThe 285 Westminster project is located significantly as visitors flocked to town toreal estate company including acquisition,on a three-quarter-acre lot at the corner enjoy vacations and weekends on development, marketing, sales and leasingof Westminster Avenue and Brunswick its shores.as well as property management. TheStreet. The lot for the project was part of a company has completed a wide range oflarger 1.5-acre parcel of land that stretched Recently, the image of Penticton hasresidential and commercial projects infrom Winnipeg Street to Brunswick Street; been undergoing a transformation Kelowna and the lower mainland of B.C.the 285 Westminster lot was subdivided particularly the citys downtown areabyTheir Inspired Green program protectsfrom the larger parcel.neighbourhoods that are attracting peoplethe environment through sustainable to work and live in the city 12 months ofbuilding practices and performance-basedThe site involves a five-storey building the year. One of these neighbourhoods,standards like LEED. with four floors of rental apartments set in the area of Westminster Avenue andon top of a concrete podium with 2,400 Winnipeg Street, is surging as newMission Groups first Penticton project, asq. ft. of retail space and a parkade. The breweries, coffee shops and restaurants75-unit residential building, is currentlydevelopment will contain 75 residential have changed the landscape of under construction at 285 Westminster the community. Avenue. Being only an hour southunits with balconies off each unit. The of Kelowna, we have been looking atunit types will be almost equally split This surge in retail businesses in thisPenticton for quite some time, statesbetween one bedroom, one bathroom and area of downtown has drawn a criticalTurri. With the new downtown takingtwo bedroom, two bathroom suites, in mass of people who are now living in theshape and more entrepreneurial businessesaddition to four studio suites.38 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'