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North Prairie president John Williams confirmed in an email on Monday that the office-condominium project is going through some changes and removing the zoning pact will accommodate this.

“The project is certainly still on, but will likely have some modifications built into it to reflect both the current marketplace and the new trends over the past three years from when we started,” Williams said in an email. He would not elaborate on the changes and declined an interview request.

Saskatoon city council granted unanimous approval to the project in December 2014. It included the 105-metre residential tower at 22nd Street and Third Avenue and an adjacent 87-metre tower of mostly office space at 22nd Street and Fourth Avenue.

When the project was first announced in the fall of 2013, construction on the complex was expected to begin in the spring of 2014 and be completed by the spring of this year. The timeline was altered in May 2015, when Williams said a shaky real estate market had delayed the start of the project until February of this year.

An early estimate pegged the cost of the project between $80 million and $100 million, but North Prairie has not released an updated price tag. An office-condo-hotel project planned for River Landing is estimated to cost at least $300 million.

Last spring, Williams said the project remained unchanged despite the delay: a tower with 290 residential units and a second, shorter tower of mostly office space.