Tourism to unveil new home

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Tourism Kelowna is about to take the wraps off plans for a new tourist information centre.

A new tourism centre, to replace the current building on Harvey Avenue, would be built on the site of a parking lot at the foot of Queensway Avenue.

That site was proposed after an attempt to relocate the info centre to City Park was loudly rejected by the community.

Council agreed to work with Tourism Kelowna on the feasibility of the site more than two years ago.

It would appear everything is about to come together.

Tourism Kelowna has scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning, at which time plans will be unveiled.

Those plans will include features of the centre, the business case for a new downtown visitor centre and history of the area that makes the site "the right choice for Kelowna."

A rezoning application is expected to come before council soon.