A health care facility closed for nearly six years is coming down.
Demolition work started Nov. 30 at what was once the Beverly Health Care Nursing Home.
The building closed its doors Dec. 31, 2003. Three months later Freeman Health System purchased the 23,000-square-foot building.
For Freeman it was economically the right time to tear down the old building.
“There’s nothing going to happen right this moment,” said Heather Collier, media coordinator for Freeman Health System. “It just allows us the opportunity for possible future expansion.”
A second building owned by the hospital just off Jefferson Street is also slated for demolition and will be turned into a green space.
