The old Janeway children's hospital in the east end of St. John's will be torn down, the Newfoundland and Labrador government said Friday.
Efforts to sell the abandoned hospital complex, in the Pleasantville neighbourhood of St. John's, were not successful, Transportation and Works Minister Dianne Whalen said.
The hospital, which opened in 1966, was closed in 2001 when staff and services relocated to a new Janeway Child Health Centre, built as an annex to the Health Sciences Centre.
The Pleasantville property was put on the market in March, but failed to attract commercial interest.
Real estate brokers Market Morgan Finch "have determined that the best way to sell the former Janeway hospital site is to remove the old building," Whalen said in a statement.
A contract worth $924,129 was awarded to St. John's company Kelloway Construction. The contract includes the cleanup of the old property.
The former Janeway site is near surplus federal lands in Pleasantville, which are currently being prepared for redevelopment.
Whalen said the Janeway demolition and remediation should be finished in a year.
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