{"id":308192,"date":"2025-11-26T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:31:11","slug":"orchard-villa-long-term-care-home-being-demolished-to-make-room-for-new-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308192\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Villa Long-Term Care Home being demolished to make room for new facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ORCHARD-VILLA-PICKERING-CO-GOOGLE-MAPS-STREET-VIEW-1-596x315.jpg\" title=\"Orchard Villa Long-Term Care Home being demolished to make room for new facilities\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"634\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ORCHARD-VILLA-PICKERING-CO-GOOGLE-MAPS-STREET-VIEW-1-634x315.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Orchard Long-Term Care Home in Pickering is being redeveloped and expanded to create a new long-term care facility.<\/p>\n<p>The new 15-storey facility will be built on the southwest portion of the job site and will include 320 new long-term beds.<\/p>\n<p>Once that building is completed, an additional two or three mid-rise residential buildings will be built where Orchard Villa currently stands.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the units within the new buildings will serve as affordable housing units for frontline healthcare workers that work on-site.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the goal is to have 832 long-term care beds and 670 retirement units.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the area may notice construction activity on or around the site, including fencing, equipment and construction vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The development was not initiated or endorsed by the city of Pickering, it was approved by the Province under its long-term care expansion framework.<\/p>\n<p>The city had no role in the decision-making process, outside of the building permit process ensuring safe construction.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the redevelopment can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pickering.ca\/news\/posts\/orchard-villa-redevelopment\/#FrequentlyAskedQuestions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mistape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"mistape-link mistape-logo\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have found a spelling error, please, notify us by selecting that text and pressing Ctrl+Enter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives\/javascript:history.go(-1)\" class=\"button\" onmouseover=\"self.status=document.referrer;return true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orchard Long-Term Care Home in Pickering is being redeveloped and expanded to create a new long-term care facility.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-308192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}