SaskPower is moving ahead with plans to consolidate its office locations in Regina and build a new complex near the city.
The strategy, which received the necessary approvals last week, calls for 12 locations in the city to be combined into four by 2018.
The four locations include the Crown utility’s downtown head office, the electrical and gas inspections office in central Regina and the grid control centre in the city’s east end.
In addition, a new logistics warehouse complex will be built at the Global Transportation Hub west of Regina.
“We’ve reached the end of many of our Regina properties’ lifespans; the status quo just isn’t sufficient any longer,” SaskPower president and CEO Robert Watson said in a news release.
"Our current facilities are inefficient and costly to operate."
The new complex will include a three-storey, 221,000-square-foot building with space for nearly 1,100 employees.
It will also feature 273,000 square feet of industrial buildings with shops, warehouses, storage and maintenance areas.
Construction on the new complex is expected to begin in October 2015, and is expected to be completed sometime in 2018.
As part of the process, SaskPower will purchase about 145 acres of land from the Global Transportation Hub Authority at an estimated cost of $25 million.
