CALGARY- There has been a major delay for low-income renters hoping to move into a brand new home.
The $24 million Lumino project at 2 St. and 55 Ave. S.W. is complete inside, but no one will be getting in to their units any time soon. That’s because the area sewer pipes can’t handle the 88 unit complex.
“There have been a lot of complications, it’s a difficult area, there’s a lot of major infrastructure all around it,” explains Joel Armitage from the City of Calgary. “There’s an LRT crossing that the utilities have to go under, so it’s just very complicated to get a design going forward.”
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Back in January, the city and developer realized a plan for the sewer pipes wouldn’t work.
“It seems that between the private consultants that were hired to shepherd this through and the city, there was oversight to it, something critical got missed,” says councillor Gian-Carlo Carra.
“I was horrified actually, that we have three thousand people on a wait list and we’re not able to get them in to housing,” adds councillor Gael MacLeod. “We have housing available, and we’re not able to put the two together.”
The building should have been completed last month, but now won’t be done until fall.
“For years we’ve been coming up with permutations, we have now finalized a solution for it,” says Robert Sipka with Kanas Corporations. “So it is imminent in terms of being put in the ground.”
The city says there shouldn’t be any extra costs due to the mixup.
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