Construction on the $41 million redevelopment of Anglican Care’s CA Brown Village at Booragul officially commenced on Monday.
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The Anglican Bishop of Newcastle, The Right Reverend Dr Peter Stuart, was joined by Anglican Care chairman Malcom McDonald and chief executive Colin Osborne to launch the build.
“The re-development of the CA Brown site will expand and improve upon the care and services available to residents,” Mr Osborne said.
“This includes 126 single en-suite rooms, 18 of those being dementia specific, a purpose-built day therapy centre, café and a number of multi-purpose spaces including a chapel.”
The redevelopment will bring employment to about 1500 people over the course of its two-year construction period, peaking with 160 local workers per day.
Spearheaded by Project Managers APP and Hunter construction organisation Core Property Group, construction is expected to be completed by April 2020.
The Booragul site is considered the spiritual home of Anglican Care, as it was its first aged care facility when opened 60 years ago.
“It is projects like this that allow us to build on our wonderful history of care and concern as well as our commitment to provide contemporary high-quality services underpinned by Christian philosophies,” Mr McDonald said.
The redevelopment will be the largest undertaken on the site and follows a staged development in 2005, when duplex style units, a community room and an administration home were built.
