Centre of Excellence expects residents can move-in later this year

THUNDER BAY – A 416-bed senior’s care facility is expected to have residents moving in later this year.

The seven-storey $83.6 million Centre of Excellence for Integrated Senior Services building, an expansion to the Hogarth Riverview Manor, on Lillie Street has been under construction for the past two years but the project is nearing its final stages.

St. Joseph’s Care Group president and chief executive officer Tracy Buckler recently said things are progressing along smoothly.

“The Hogarth Riverview Manor expansion is going very well. We’re on time and we’re on budget,” she said.
“We’re hoping to move our first residents in at the end of October.”

The beds at the facility will replace those at the Grandview, Dawson Court and Bethammi nursing homes.

It has been a long road to bring the CEISS building to fruition, with the project being first announced in 2007.

At one point the building originally projected to open in 2012 but ran into delays, with the groundbreaking finally taking place in 2013.