A specific challenge faced by CLC at Brandt’s Creek was to find a way to save and restore the portion of the creek running through the centre of the site in culverts and shallow ditches. CLC’s solution lay in developing a 1.8 hectare (4.4 acre) stream protection corridor, which reinstated Brandt’s Creek as a 350 metre (1,150 foot) waterway.  In addition to the creation of the stream protection corridor, the naturalization of Brandt's Creek also involved the transfer of fish from the old alignment to the new stream corridor. To accomplish this, community volunteers and our consultant team moved approximately 2,700 small fish and young salmon into the new creek.

CLCs overall efforts to rejuvenate Brandt’s Creek substantially helped to both increase the attractiveness of the site and the value of the land.  As redevelopment went ahead, the project came to represent more than $50 million in direct investment in the Kelowna area.

The contamination issues were just one of several complications that required diligence on the part of the developer and the City to work through.  Being a former rail yard, with a significant drainage course flowing through it, surrounded by a mixture of industrial, commercial, and residential uses, having some unusual lot line anomalies and containing a federally protected heritage train station, the plan required compliance with legislation at all levels of government as well as negotiations with adjacent landowners.  In support of the plan and in addition to the environmental work done, CLC prepared drainage and servicing studies, traffic impact studies, a heritage evaluation and design guidelines for future development. This diligence was rewarded as the development was very positively received by Council after an uncontroversial public hearing.  CLC’s early engagement with the community and neighbourhood associations proved to be very helpful and they would practice this strategy again.