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Buses will soon be buzzing in and out of the city’s northeast industrial area as the brand new $210.7-million transit garage is set to open its doors in February.

About 275 city buses and up to 700 staff will be making the move over to the 500,000-square-foot Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage over the next month with construction recently completed. It will replace the 50-year-old Westwood Transit Garage, which will be closed and the land it sits on has already been sold to NAIT.

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The new home for buses at the northeast corner of Fort Road and Yellowhead Trail was built on the site of the old Canada Packers meatpacking plant and will keep a piece of its history. The landmark 12-storey smokestack will be surrounded by a public space of walkways, benches and information panels to acknowledge the history of the area.

“Restoration of the terracotta bricks on the municipally designated smokestack was part of the project and involved a careful process that took four months,” the city said in a December blog post.