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March 2, 2012 Peachland, BC Volume 08 | Number 9
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by Joanne Layh Last week, Peachlanders had a chance to see what the former Edgewater Hotel and adjacent building might look like if re-zoning and development applications move forward. At an open house held at the Peachland Community Centre last Thursday, TNI president Steve Allison, along with a design team, revealed concept plans for a three-story building that would effectively serve as a south anchor on Beach Avenue. According to plans presented at the open house, the ground floor of the approximately 40,000-square-foot building would consist of commercial units for retail use, such as a pub and restaurants. Office space on the second floor would be occupied by TNI, with the possibility of some executive office space on the floor, as well. The third floor of the mixed-use building would contain four non-market resi-
dential units. “When we started the initial design work we looked at the charrette report that was done a few years ago, which is part of the downtown plan, and we put together something that works with the land owner’s needs today but also keeps the options open for the future,” Shane Worman of Worman Homes Worman Commercial said. “With TNI’s wishes, we wanted to try to create something that we felt fit in with the downtown in Peachland. It wasn’t so unique and different that it was coming from somewhere else. We tried to keep colours muted and tones with the kind of the beachy feel. So we do some whites, some yellows, some natural rock to try and maintain a nice warm feel to the building,” Worman told The View. Worman says that in the designs they’ve set the building back so it comes out further on the main floor, back a bit on the second, then
back a little further still on the third floor to subtly create a little less imposing impact on pedestrians than just going straight up off the street three stories. The main floor footprint, which includes a small number of parking stalls at the back, is about 15,000 square feet in size. Hans Newmann, the architect who created the building design, says that a future vision for Waldo Way has been incorporated into the design of the building. “That’s why we’ve articulated and brought the stone from the front of the building around to the back. Normally you wouldn’t have it facing out in the alley. With the current market and the building being built in the next year or so, the intention now is for the back to be garages for onsite parking.” Newmann says that in the future, those garage doors could be turned into glazed overContinued on page 2
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