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innsertnamehere · Nov 19, 2025

no photos as I was driving but they are moving dirt here for the site of the long term care home. With the planning act changes, Schlegel can go right to building permit without site plan, so they can move quick.

innsertnamehere · Nov 27, 2025

Mountain brow build begins with 100,000-tonne soil cleanup

Schlegel Villages must remove buried hospital debris before starting two long-term care homes in a redevelopment also featuring apartments and a restored heritage landmark.

www.thespec.com

Schlegel Villages expects to remove 100,000 tonnes of contaminated soil — or 1,000 dump-truck loads — before it breaks ground on two long-term care homes on Hamilton Mountain brow hospital lands next year.
Lead from paint is the main contaminant to truck away from the sprawling Fennell Avenue West site where Schlegel aims to start building the pair of LTC homes with 512 beds between them by March.
“The site’s contaminated basically because the previous hospital and buildings were buried on-site,” Kevin Bushell, director of site development, told The Spectator during a drop-in information session at Mohawk College this week.

Remnants of the old psychiatric site, including a brick powerhouse and trades building, have been demolished to get at the soil and open up the space.
But non-profit Indwell plans to restore Century Manor, a shuttered heritage landmark from the original 1875 Hamilton Asylum, into 41 supportive housing units.
The massive project was spurred by a provincial zoning order to fast-track land-use changes to allow for the redevelopment of the 28.8-acre property next to St. Joseph’s Healthcare’s West 5th Campus and across from Mohawk.
Schlegel bought the land from Infrastructure Ontario for roughly $24.3 million in August 2024.
It expects the twin eight-storey long-term care homes, the first phase of the mixed-use project, to be built by April 2029, according to rough project timelines.