Everyone seems to be talking about how expensive houses are getting and how much development is going on around the city. No high rises being built but plenty of construction all over town. No one is expecting Kamloops to double in size any time soon, but the affordability that makes Kamloops such a livable place is getting a lot of attention. With the amount of people moving here and low supply it's dramatically driving up housing costs, this year especially. I don't see where the city can expand in order to meet the demand. Cough - indian reserve - cough...
The next 10-20 years will be interesting since we'll surpass 100k and at the same time are already bursting at the seems. I would love to see the downtown and North Shore develop medium/high density units, with good amenities marketed towards the first time buyer in order to get younger people in the market.
Kamloops developers are brutal, and notorious for building the same old wood frame building, with no amenities, in car-centric areas. It seems like what happened in Kelowna is 1 person took a risk to develop big in the core and it paid off, now everyone wants a piece of the pie. I feel like the same thing will happen in Kamloops once a single developer takes that same risk.