Newmarket hospital president says there's no candidate on the horizon for much needed second hospital site after the province nixed the proposal for King Greenbelt lands
Southlake Regional Health Centre currently has no options on the table in its search for a much needed new site, according to the hospital’s president.
“We’ve had to sort of press the reset button on some of the processes, including land acquisition, when the previous attempt did not come to fruition,” he said, later adding that “the result is, at this point, we don’t have a candidate for land for a site.” The surrounding area has “a very high commercial price for land,” he said, adding the province will not pay for land acquisition. “We would have to raise that cost of land and we have the fortune and misfortune of ... being situated in a place extremely high land prices. Those are the opposing tensions, and we’re hoping we can find a solution.
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