8 storey parking garage under construction at the new Mississauga Hospital

Construction of the new state-of-the-art Mississauga Hospital isn’t set to begin until 2025, but the building of an accompanying eight-storey parking garage is already underway.

And hospital officials who gave two local MPPs a tour of the Hurontario St./The Queensway site yesterday (Nov. 10) say construction of the parking facility is a huge first step in transforming the parcel of land that has housed the hospital since 1958.

Work on the parking structure is “an important step in preparing for the build of The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital,” Trillium Health Partners (THP) officials wrote on a post to THP’s Twitter page.

THP, the healthcare network that runs Mississauga and Credit Valley hospitals in addition to Queensway Health Centre on the Mississauga-Etobicoke border, hosted Mississauga-Lakeshore MPP Rudy Cuzzetto and Brampton South MPP Prab Sarkaria for a site tour on Thursday.

THP officials thanked the MPPs for their support of the massive project, which down the road will see a new Mississauga Hospital on the site that will be nearly three times the size of the current healthcare facility.

That will make it the largest hospital in Ontario and among the largest in all of Canada.

Today, we were excited to welcome Minister @PrabSarkaria to THP for the very first time, & MPP @RudyCuzzetto to see the construction progress on the parking garage at Mississauga Hospital – an important step in preparing for the build of The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital. pic.twitter.com/UUWFW0o5eH

— Trillium Health Partners (@THP_hospital) November 10, 2022

While construction of the 24-storey state-of-the-art hospital isn’t anticipated to begin until 2025, work to demolish the existing parking garage and begin erecting the new eight-storey structure began in April.

The new parking garage, to be built on the south end of the site on land currently used for surface parking, will have space for 1,462 vehicles, according to the project’s development application.

The Ontario government unveiled preliminary plans for the huge new hospital undertaking last December

The new facility will be named The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital after the local developer/philanthropist gifted $105 million to the effort earlier this year. It will boast about 2.8 million sq. ft. of space and 23 cutting-edge operating rooms, up from the 14 older ORs currently in use.

Additionally, the emergency department will be one of the largest in Ontario and some 350 new beds will be added to bring the total to more than 950. More than 80 per cent of the beds will be in private rooms.

Once the new hospital is complete, the existing structure will be demolished.

Rendering of the new Mississauga Hospital as it will appear years down the road when completed.