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Recipe for success: OC’s new culinary building boosts Kelowna's UNESCO bid

'Magnificent building…celebrating the heartbeat of the region'

Okanagan College’s (OC) yet-to-be-built culinary arts building should add some flavour to Kelowna’s application to become Canada's first UNESCO City of Gastronomy.

Council approved a development permit for the four-storey, 60,000 square-foot building at OC’s KLO Road Campus, at its Monday (Mar. 17) meeting.

“Magnificent building…celebrating the heartbeat of the region, which is agriculture, food, and beverage, and will help bolster our economic development as well,” Coun.

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About the Author: Gary Barnes

Journalist and broadcaster for three decades.
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