He said he has been working alongside a Lower Mainland developer, Ignition Group, conducting due diligence over the past three years. Ignition has a contract to purchase the 500-acre (202-hectare) waterfront property. To envision what is intended to be developed on the former sanatorium grounds, McLeod suggested picturing a village like Sun Rivers on Kamloops Lake and inside city boundaries, complete with residential and commercial buildings, a developer-subsidized day care (not a school, as previously reported), a community centre, a country lakefront inn, a city park, a boat launch, trails, a farm, a market and a winery. McLeod described plans for Tranquille as a family-friendly community, with 1,500 mixed housing units (from apartments to cottages) and interesting enough to draw people. The village will include waterfront pathways, lookouts, viewpoints and enhanced access to Kamloops Lake and Tranquille River via Kamloops’ only lakefront municipal park.
The owner/applicant of the application for the property, located at 4600 Tranquille Rd., is British Columbia Wilderness Tours Inc. The city said the 190-hectare site is composed of multiple parcels of land. As of November, the property was listed to have a business license for Tranquille Farm Fresh, linked to the numbered company 779318 Alberta LTD. KTW reached out to Tranquille Farm Fresh and did not hear back as of press deadline Plans in the area have a storied history, but have been held up at the rezoning process since 2012, due to market conditions, servicing requirements and associated costs, a city report states.
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