{"id":7796,"date":"2025-07-19T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7796\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:11:18","slug":"positive-progress-but-no-updates-on-sale-of-former-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7796\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Positive progress’ but no updates on sale of former hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

City approved sale of old hospital site late last year, with plans in place to demolish downtown eyesore <\/p>\n

The city’s CAO says agreements to sell off the former General Hospital site\u00a0are still weeks away from being finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That message comes months after city council voted unanimously to buy three properties that comprised the old hospital site<\/a> from both companies for $4.75 million in November of last year.<\/p>\n

The city then agreed to sell the former General Hospital building on Queen Street East to Green Infrastructure Partners<\/a> (GIP) and an adjacent waterfront lot at 10 Lucy Terrace for $1 each, with conditions attached.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruscio Construction bought\u00a0the former renal building for $2 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

GIP committed at the time to begin\u00a0demolition of the General Hospital building between 30 and 45 days after closing of the sale, with completion of the demolition slated for six to eight weeks later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city is making positive progress on the agreements and is in the last stages of contract finalization,\u201d City of Sault Ste. Marie CAO Tom Vair told SooToday via email.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe anticipate signing an agreement within the next few weeks. As soon as the agreement is signed, the city looks forward to sharing the news, next steps, and timeline of the projects in collaboration with the project proponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vair would not disclose the reason for the ongoing delays when asked by SooToday.<\/p>\n

In March, the CAO\u00a0told SooToday’s Kenneth Armstrong\u00a0that unsigned contracts were behind\u00a0the delay<\/a> in the sale closing and eventual demolition of\u00a0the former General Hospital building.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

– with files from Kenneth Armstrong and David Helwig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City approved sale of old hospital site late last year, with plans in place to demolish downtown eyesore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,8357,84,392],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-demolitiondelayssaleold-hospital-site","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","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=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}