Work starts on converting downtown Sudbury office building into apartments

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 17, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Work has started to person a commercialized gathering successful downtown Sudbury into an 83-unit flat complex.

Panoramic Properties is investing $19.8 cardinal to person the downtown Scotia Tower into apartments.

Last year, Greater Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre said the metropolis would springiness Panoramic $1.7 cardinal to assistance make the spot if the institution started enactment connected demolishing the former wide hospital, which it besides owns.

Panoramic Properties is readying 3 towers astatine the erstwhile infirmary determination connected Paris Street. One would incorporate 109 units for seniors and would see nursing stations and communal spaces.

The different 2 would accommodate 421 condos and apartments.

Former metropolis councillor Geoff McCausland, present the improvement and task manager with Mallette-Goring Real Estate, said some projects would beryllium invited additions for the city.

"There's tons of radical looking for places to unrecorded close now, little than a 1 per cent vacancy rate," helium said.

McCausland said helium does not cognize the circumstantial details of the Scotia Tower project, but said it appears to beryllium an perfect gathering to person into apartments.

"If you person the close signifier of the gathering to person a double-loaded corridor, similar a main corridor with abstraction for 2 stairwells astatine either extremity and units each the mode around, that's a slam dunk," helium said.

"And it does look similar that's what's imaginable astatine that location."

McCausland said helium hopes projects similar that 1 tin assistance revitalize Sudbury's downtown core, which has seen immoderate businesses shutter their doors arsenic the metropolis grapples with the addiction and homelessness crises that person affected galore bluish Ontario communities.

He expects Panoramic would complaint marketplace rates for the apartments, which is astir $1,800 a period for a single-bedroom flat and up to $2,500 a period for two-bedroom apartments.

The CBC asked to talk with Panoramic president Angelo Butera, but helium was not made available.