St Vincent’s Hospital moves in on the Cross
Have you noticed St Vincent’s Hospital is gradually moving north up Victoria Street?
Bill Warner’s chemist recently shut up shop, but it too is moving north, to the old laudromat site, on the corner of Surrey Street.
With the Garvan Institute on one side of the pharmacy, the other used to be two Victorian terrace houses, one of which was St Vincent’s Hospital’s Diabetes Education Centre. I am sad to see these lovely old buildings go.
The new community health unit is about to open on Burton Street, or maybe it already has, meaning the old Caritas building on Forbes Street is up for redevelopment and residents don’t seem all too happy about it.
The skyline looking south down Victoria Street is about to change.
And it’s called St Vincent’s Hospital.
The new cancer research institute will dwarf existing buildings along Victoria St, as it is several stories taller than the Garvan Institute, which is itself the tallest building on that stretch of the street. St Vincent’s has disregarded it’s own master plan by destroying the two Victorian terraces on the street. It has engaged in limited consultation with local residents about the cancer institute and the Caritas site, and in doing so, proven itself a poor neighbour.
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