Disaster Recovery

Developers of New Charles Harwood Complex Share Design Ideas, Eye August 2023 as Construction Start Date

Flad Architects, the developers of the new Charles Harwood Memorial Complex hosted a meeting on Monday to share concept ideas for the new facility with community members of Christiansted. The 70-year-old building, which served as a hospital from 1952 will be demolished and rebuilt for use as a community health clinic and wellness center. The project will cost a total of $291 million which includes funds for the abatement and demolition of the old structure, construction of the new facility as well as the contents inside. However, before construction is to begin, the contractors must deal with a lead and asbestos problem which they have encountered at the old facility. “We’ve done several studies and there’s a little bit of lead and asbestos in the building and that has to be abated or mitigated or dealt with or demolished in a safe way, before we actually begin the complete demolition,” Reuben Molloy, assistant commissioner at the V.I. Department of Health stated. Flad also has to...