That's the key part of Infrastructure Ontario's response to recent questions from TBnewswatch about the status of the former Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital.In 2018, when St. Joseph's Care Group closed its transitional care unit at the LPH, the government listed the 144-acre property and 500,000-square-foot building as surplus under a plan to accelerate the disposition of unused real estate.
"Along with our due diligence requirements, we also manage a circulation process that considers potential use by other provincial ministries or agencies such as municipalities, Indigenous communities, non-profits, etc." Earlier this month, Thunder Bay firefighters were called to put out a fire suspected to have been started by trespassers, and numerous windows in the complex have been broken by vandals."I sincerely hope that the building is secure enough that we're not running into any potential issues where it can become, you know, a challenge to address.
He said the city has received several unsolicited proposals from developers, including "proposals far more comprehensive and expensive than just that little section."