New 14-storey tower at Halifax hospital, ready for patients by 2031 – Halifax [Video]

The Nova Scotia government has announced it has finalized an agreement to construct a $7.4-billion 14-storey tower at a Halifax hospital site that will be ready for patients by 2031.

Under a deal reached last week with private developer Plenary PCL Health, the province will pay $4.5 billion for the construction of the tower at the Halifax Infirmary and $2.9 billion over 30 years for the operation and maintenance of the new building. Plenary is contracted to build the tower and maintain it over the length of the deal.

On Wednesday, Health Minister Michelle Thompson called the project “the largest piece of health-care infrastructure ever undertaken in Atlantic Canada.”

The acute care tower is the centrepiece of the major redevelopment of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre complex in the provincial capital, first announced by the former Liberal government in 2015. The government at the time had estimated the …