Downtown city-owned properties will be assessed for their suitability as a site for a major new performing arts centre, Kelowna council heard this week.

The evaluations are being conducted in advance of a future decision on whether to include the proposed centre, likely to cost well over $100 million, in an updating of the city’s 10-year capital plan.

“We’re doing a test-fit on some selected city-owned sites in the downtown to see the scope and scale of what’s possible,” city manager Doug Gilchrist told councillors at Monday’s meeting.

“Once we have that information completed, later on this year or in Q1 of 2026, council will be in a better picture to talk about the big picture (construction cost) number. But we want to start putting a placeholder site into the plan so that we’re comfor

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