New CancerCare Manitoba building could cost up to $1 billion: Kinew
Premier says work on the 4-year construction project will start next year
The Manitoba government says construction on a long-promised centre for cancer research and treatment will get underway next year.
The new headquarters for CancerCare Manitoba was cancelled by the former Progressive Conservative government in 2017, and the NDP promised in 2023 to build it if elected.
Premier Wab Kinew says $11.5 million has been set aside this year for design work and a four-year construction project is expected to start next year.
Kinew says a very preliminary cost estimate is more than $800 million, but that figure could rise to $1 billion.
The current building opened in 2003, and Dr. Dhali Dhaliwal, former CEO of CancerCare Manitoba, says a new, larger building with updated technology is needed.
The project is to be built near the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.