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KTW concludes its two-part series on the Kamloops Hospice Association with a look at expansion plans for the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home and the Cooper Family Foundation’s work to make them a reality.
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APRIL 27, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 34
Public market pitched for parkside parking lot Still in very early stages, Lorne Street proposal has already drawn the ire of some Kamloops residents JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
A private group called the Kamloops Public Market Co-Operative is working on a proposal for a year-round public market. Preliminary plans include a 35,000-square foot, two-storey building located in the parking lot of Heritage House in Riverside Park. Plans show a parkade below the market. “Basically, an aesthetically pleasing building that would be open year-round and have farmers’ market in it,” said Byron McCorkell, the city’s director of community and protective services. The group has been planning for nearly three years and city staff have been working with it in a liaison capacity, as per the city’s urban agriculture plan. That plan, which was approved by council in 2015, includes partnering with community agencies to explore the feasibility of a year-round farmers’ market, “considering factors such as access for farm
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This rendering shows the potential layout of a proposed public market, which would be located on the space currently occupied by the Heritage House parking lot at Riverside Park — the same slab of asphalt the city wanted to turn into a parkade in 2011. The public market proposal is in very preliminary stages.
vehicles, potential for cold storage, adequate parking and accessibility for the public and prospective vendors.” Year-round markets can similarly be found in Vancouver,
Winnipeg and in the Washington state cities of Bellingham and Wenatchee. While some version of this idea has been on the city’s radar for years, a Kamloops resident — who
found out about the private proposal before it was made public — has taken issue with the group’s proposed location in a parking lot adjacent to Riverside Park. Downtown resident and West
End Residents Association member Ruth Madsen got her hands on the group’s proposal and revealed it publicly during the public inquiry portion of Tuesday’s city council meeting. “You guys are considering commercializing it [Riverside Park],” Madsen said. “I’m so disappointed.” Outside city hall, Madsen told reporters she is concerned about a “big building down in our park” and setting a precedent. “I know it’s a city park, but this is our [downtown residents’] park,” she said. “Those other communities have parks of their own. Our major park in the city, Riverside Park, has got to stay a park.” See CITY, A17
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