While some 800 Interior Heath staff are looking forward to moving into their new office location downtown, making that happen has become a massive undertaking for the Kelowna commercial movers firm Bekins Moving & Storage.
The IH employees are expected to begin moving into the new building at Doyle Avenue and Ellis Street beginning in October.
To manage a move of this scale, Bekins began preparations in January after successfully bidding on the contract for the job, to handle the moving and storage aspects of the IH administrative relocation.
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Miller currently operates with a staff of 40, and he has recently hired for several key positions, including a new dispatcher and office admin worker.
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