The former Red Deer nursing home is being torn down to make way for a new seniors’ housing complex.
The $28-million project will replace the oldest seniors’ home in Alberta — Red Deer’s Piper Creek Lodge — by 2021.
The new 100-unit housing project will be built at 30th Street at Bremner Avenue — the current site of the shutdown Red Deer Nursing Home.
Once the new structure is completed, it will have 65 rooms and 35 stand-alone apartments.
Residents of Piper Creek Lodge will be moved to the new facility and the 63-year-old lodge will then be torn down.