Finally, the dirt pile that sits at the intersection of Water Street and Sunset Drive will be gone.

Work started Tuesday morning to remove the approximate 33,000 cubic metres of dirt from the area 香蕉视频直播� the only problem, where to put it?

Russ Watson, managing partner of North American Development Group, says construction will begin in the new year on One Water Street, a luxury tower development, and so the dirt needs to be taken from Sunset Drive as soon as possible.

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The dirt is structural fill that was placed on the land about 11 years ago by a previous developer.

Phase one of One Water Street will be a $150-million 36-storey tower project with street-front commercial.

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The project was just approved by Kelowna City Council only a few short weeks ago and work is already underway by Kerkhoff Construction.

Robert Camacho with Kerkhoff Construction says they were eager to transform this area of Sunset Drive and connect it to the rest of downtown.

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Removing the dirt pile and constructing a project as large as One Water Street is a large undertaking and according to Camacho it will take a team of architects and structural engineers from around Western Canada to complete the project on time.

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And, he remains positive the project will be completed on time and the dirt pile will no longer be the eyesore of the north-end.

The first round of sales for ONE Water Street begins Friday, Sept. 29 and continues through Saturday. Ahead of construction more than 4,300 individual information requests for this Kelowna development have been received so far, including 400 requests for personal sales appointments to put them at the front of the queue.

Watson believes One Water Street will sell quickly and calls what will be the tallest residential towers between Metro Vancouver and Calgary a game changer for Kelowna.

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If you need dirt from this structural fill please contact Kerkhoff Construction.