Men and equipment deployed for demolition of Indianapolis hospital.
Crews have started tearing down the brick walls of a vacant hospital near Downtown Indianapolis that had become an eyesore since it closed seven years ago.
Heavy equipment began demolition of the Winona Hospital building today. It is expected to take several weeks to take down the 317-room hospital that opened in the 1950s but was closed in 2004 after its operator, Leland Medical Centers of Plano, Texas, went into bankruptcy. Four years later, a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee abandoned the property. The city took control in 2009 after the hospital failed to find a buyer for the property at 3232 N. Meridian St. at two delinquent-tax sales.
Accordingt o officials, the building had been heavily vandalized and that tons of debris such as hospital beds, television sets and medical equipment had to be removed.
The city is using a federal grant to pay for the demolition.
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