The Centre for Seniors’ Information says it is working with the City of Kamloops to address concerns around construction still taking place at a new building at Sixth Avenue and Victoria Street downtown.

While people have moved into their new homes, Centre for Seniors’ Information, Operations Manager, Brenda Prevost, tells NL News that the construction is causing a few concerns with safety for seniors and accessibility to the building.

“We’ve been really monitoring that closely for people coming and going, trying to keep the sidewalks clear,” she said. “There are bins and different things for garbage removal. The big orange tarp that is there where they are doing repair work on the brick, that will soon be gone and access to the building has been secured and it is quite safe.”

“It does restrict accessibility to the building for moving trucks and that type of thing but we are working with the City of Kamloops to control all of those concerns.”

Prevost says there is no construction taking place on any of the five residential floors at Sunrise Centre, which has 112 units for seniors and low to moderate income families.

“It is all exterior work, and I can’t really comment to when that work will be completed, or the stages of it,” she added, noting about 30 people have already moved in. “It is strictly under the control of the developer. We don’t have any control of that at all.”

“As far as why the project took as long as it did to open, that is also something that I can’t really speak to because it was totally under the control of the developer.”

Rent will range from $375 for a studio apartment to $1,150 for a two-bedroom apartment, and Prevost expects all of the units to be occupied by early to mid March.

The Province, through BC Housing, provided $11.2 million towards the project. The Centre for Seniors Information will also get $466,000 in operating funding each year.