New Rockwood Terrace 82% built, with residents' move still set for summer 2027

The new Rockwood Terrace long-term care home in Durham was 82 per cent complete at the end of September and still within its approved budget, according to a Grey County report.

The operational report went to the county's Long-Term Care Committee of Management on Tuesday, Nov. 10. It sets a tentative resident move date of summer 2027.

The county is building the new home beside the existing Rockwood Terrace. It will have 128 long-term care beds. In September the county said the expected opening had slipped slightly from spring 2027 to summer 2027.

The report says both elevators are installed and waiting for testing, flooring has started in resident washrooms, and window trim, sun shading and exterior signs are being added. It said parking areas would be paved and the streets given a base layer of asphalt by the end of October, with the final surface in the spring.

Current staff picked their shifts in the new home's schedule in September. The county says hiring from outside will wait so it lines up with the revised building schedule. A final occupancy report is expected to go to the Ministry of Long-Term Care in early December.

The Owen Sound Current, which covered the meeting, reported that staff told the committee a mid-June move is the target, with September as the fallback, and named a gas-pressure issue with the building's generator and a supplier shutdown as schedule risks. Those details were not in the written report.

The county's Rockwood Terrace project page has the timeline and a construction camera.