40 Projects Competed For Top Honours at 12th Annual Event at Coast Capri Hotel Thursday night
KELOWNA – KF Centre For Excellence was the Judges’ Choice Best Overall entry winner at the 2023 Thompson Okanagan Commercial Building Awards Thursday night at the Coast Capri Hotel.
40 projects competed for top honours at the 12th Annual event which honored the best of the best in commercial, industrial and revenue producing properties from Kamloops to Osoyoos that were completed between January 1 and December 31, 2022.
Sawchuk Developments Ltd. was the General Contractor for the KF Centre For Excellence at 5800 Lapointe Drive near Kelowna Airport and Meiklejohn Architects Inc. was the architect/designer. The Centre was also named the Award of Excellence winner in the Tourism & Hospitality category, and Meiklejohn Architectural Design Studio Ltd (MAD Studio) of Penticton was also named the Architect of the Year at the awards.
Construction Company of the Year was Stretch Construction of Kelowna and the Company Safety Award went to Traine Construction & Development of Kamloops.
Gold Sponsors for the Awards, organized by the Business Examiner News Group, were Pushor Mitchell LLP, Freedom Capital and BDO LLP.
Category Sponsors were: Hero Security, Financial Dream Solutions, RE/MAX Commercial, TOMTAR Roofing & TRS Building Envelope, Financial Dream Solutions, United Rentals, OK College, Green Sheet Construction Data, SAHURI + Associates, NOvation Architecture, Amante Real Estate, Bargoon Cabinets, and The BC Notaries Association.
Brad Karp, the Morning Show Host for K96.3 Kelowna’s Classic Rock & K97.5 Kamloops Classic Rock, was the Master of Ceremonies.
Other Category winners were:
Affordable Housing: The Village At Okanagan Landing of Vernon.
Community Institutional: Coldstream Community Centre and Child Care Facility of Coldstream.
Industrial: Ace Plumbing and Harmony Homes of Kelowna.
Mixed Use: Apollo 1 of West Kelowna.
Multi-Family Condominium: Fairway 10 of Kamloops.
Multi-Family Town Home: Ledge On Lakeshore of Kelowna.
Office: Oliver Dental Care of Oliver.
Purpose Built Rental: The View – Hillside of Kamloops.
Retail: Kelowna Toyota of Kelowna.
Awards of Merit (runners-up) went to:
Affordable Housing: Powley Court of West Kelowna.
Community Institutional: Lake Country Fire Hall of Lake Country and Thompson Rivers University Early Childhood Education Centre of Kamloops.
Industrial: Adams Road Industrial of Kelowna.
Multi-Family Condominium: Vita Vernon.
Office: Westridge of Spallumcheen.
Purpose Built Rental: Evangel Family Manor of Kelowna.
The official souvenir program for the awards, which includes profiles and photos of all the finalists, can be viewed here.
See more photos here