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CBC
22-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Fire at derelict hospital frustrates Sudbury mayor
Greater Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre says he's frustrated following a fire Wednesday night at a derelict former hospital sitting on some of the most prime real estate in the city. "We're all frustrated," Lefebvre said at a Thursday news conference surrounded by several city councillors. "The fact that this building has been derelict for a while. Certainly the owner has been meeting his obligations under the laws of Ontario, but I think as a city we've certainly been working with the owner to bring things forward." Developer Panoramic Properties has owned the former General Hospital on Paris Street since 2010, but after a few years of work clearing out in the interior and tearing down some of the structure, the 75-year-old building has sat vacant in a state of disrepair. Originally, Panoramic planned to renovate the old hospital, sometimes called St. Joseph's, but in 2023, the company announced plans to tear it down and replace it with a 20-storey condominium tower, 16-storey urban loft and 12-storey retirement residence. The three buildings would provide 222 condo units, 199 rental apartments and 109 retirement guest suites. "Our desire is to work in parallel with the City of Greater Sudbury to realize the true untapped potential of this site, its significance to the city, and northern Ontario more broadly," Panoramic president Angelo Butera said in a news release at the time. Last October, the city said it would grant Panoramic $1.7 million to help redevelop another Sudbury property it owns – the downtown Scotia Tower – if it moved ahead with the former hospital demotion. Lefebvre said on Thursday that that offer is still on the table. The mayor said he spoke with representatives from Panoramic Thursday morning and they agreed immediate action needs to be taken to demolish the building. "So we're looking forward to receiving their application for the demolition permit imminently as they search for a contractor to hire to move that file forward," he said. Lefebvre added that the fire at the building shows it continues to pose a risk to public safety. "Even though it's gated, there is fencing, but people still trespass," he said. "And that's why, you know, the safety concerns of everybody around, neighbours as well as the individuals that may want to trespass on that property, is becoming to us, to a level that is really unacceptable."
CTV News
22-05-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Old Sudbury hospital sustains substantial damage in ‘suspicious' fire
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CBC
22-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Fire at old hospital in Sudbury deemed suspicious
Social Sharing A fire at an old building in Sudbury is being treated as suspicious. On Wednesday evening, fire crews were called to the old St. Joseph's Hospital building on Paris Street. A fire was burning on the second floor. "Crews worked for several hours to gain access to the property, get our tools, equipment and get water onto that fire as quickly as possible," deputy fire chief Jesse Oshell said. He said the fire was extinguished around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning. As for the cause, Oshell said crews believe combustible materials left from a former movie production scene are to blame. "We suspect that it was that material that was on fire," he said. "We do feel that it is suspicious because the hospital is abandoned. There is no occupancy there for certain, and that material has been there for some time." Oshell said police have been notified about the fire. He added fire officials have also been in contact with Panoramic Properties, the owner of the building, as well as the city. "We want to make sure that it is still a safe structure to be there," he said. "We've shared those concerns with our partners in the city at building services who are experts at that and we'll see what the next steps are. We want to make sure that the building is sound at this point in time until such time as Panoramic is going to be doing something with it." Panoramic purchased the property in 2010 but little has been done with it since then. Last fall, the company said it is moving forward with plans to build housing on the site, but was unable to say when demolition of the building would take place.
