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Kyle Centre repairs cost big bucks Plan could have an impact on other city projects MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
Taryn Barker, of The Little Butcher in Port Moody’s NewPort Village, is sharpening her knives in preparation for joining Canada’s team at the World Butcher Challenge in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 2 and 3. The international competition was supposed to held in 2020, but was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. See the story on Page 11. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Repairing Port Moody’s Kyle Centre will cost almost $3 million. Last Tuesday, council voted to move the project forward to the design development phase, even though questions remain about the 44-year-old building’s longterm future and if the cost to fix it could impact other planned projects in the city. A staff report presented to council said Kyle Centre has “reached a stage where the building envelope needs to be replaced.”
An engineering company hired in 2020 to assess the building’s condition further said many of Kyle Centre’s existing building envelope assemblies, windows and skylights are in such poor shape they no longer meet current building code requirements. A followup report completed last May by JRS Engineering in Burnaby estimates the cost to repair those items, including replacing the roof, will be $2,832,300. Port Moody’s general manager of finance and technology, Paul Rockwood, said while the money to proceed is available from the city’s density bonus fund that is fuelled by contribuSEE
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