A development that calls for nine apartment towers to be erected on the site of the former Queenston Street hospital in St. Catharines is leaving area residents feeling ill.

More than a hundred people attended an open house meeting at Connaught Public School, held Wednesday in accordance with Ontario’s Planning Act.

Representatives of Vive Development Corp. and St. Catharines city staff outlined the development proposal for nine 24-storey apartment buildings to be built over two decades on the 4.86-hectare property at 142 Queenston St.

It has been vacant since March 2013, after the new hospital opened in the city’s west end.

The latest development proposal for the site is for 2,443 mixed one- and two-bedroom apartments in a neighbourhood predominantly comprised of single-family homes.

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