A look at the Trillium Tower at the City Gardens project in downtown Kamloops. (Photo via Patrick Brown, Site Supervisor City Gardens)

The largest residential construction project in the City of Kamloops has hit a new construction milestone.

Kelson Group, the company behind the 525-unit City Gardens project downtown, says crews have poured the sixth-floor concrete slab on the 24-story Trillium tower.

Speaking on the NL Noon Report, Kelson Group President Jason Fawcett says crews have been making good progress since a groundbreaking ceremony in March of 2022.

“We’re just on the sixth floor now of the Trillium Tower, which is the first building of the six buildings we’re eventually going to build on site,” Kelson Group President Jason Fawcett told Radio NL.

“The parkade is about halfway done now. The tower is very visible as you drive around the site now and its just going to keep going on upwards from here.”

Fawcett says crews expect to add a new floor every nine days or so, taking the building from its current height of 52 feet to 248 feet in the next six months – adding an average of about 33 feet a month.

“That’ll mean that sometime in the spring that the building will be topped off and then starting really in a couple of weeks here we’re going to start filling up the building, starting near the bottom,” Fawcett said.

“We’ll be adding the exterior cladding and starting to put in everything from kitchens to bathrooms on the lower floors and following our way up.”

Fawcett expects people will be able to move into the Trillium tower by the spring of 2025.

“If everything goes well, there is a chance that the building could be open towards the end of next year, but there are bound to be a few delays,” Fawcett said.

“Right now we think it’ll probably be the spring of 2025 that the building will open.”