St. Paul's Hospital & Health Campus | U/C

[wrenegade]

It is a little disappointing that an Urgent Care Centre won't remain on-site on Burrard, but I suppose it makes sense. There is only so much money to go around. With more than 50% of pick-ups on the DTES, this location seems to make more sense. IF the Georgia Viaduct remains in-place then the 20% or so of pick-ups in the City Centre will be just as easily served. Without the viaducts though? I'm not so sure.

Presumably any sort of re-development of St. Pauls would require the $80M to be spent on seismic upgrading of the Heritage Building, but paid by a private developer who purchases the site. From the looks of it (eyeballing the Google Earth image) it appears than at least 50% of the current St. Paul's site should be available for complete redevelopment. Looking forward to seeing what happens.