St. Lawrence Health

Additional Cottage Street Closure Dates

The Canton-Potsdam Hospital-owned portion of Cottage Street, Potsdam, will be undergoing construction work between Monday, August 15 and Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Aug. 9, 2022 3   min read

POTSDAM, NY – Residents in the vacinity of Canton-Potsdam Hospital (CPH), along with its patients and visitors will be seeing continued road work in progress for the Hospital’s Regional Care Pavilion expansion project next week.

Anyone coming to the Hospital’s main campus at 50 Leroy Street, Potsdam, between August 15-17, 2022 is being encouraged to avoid using Cottage Street to access the parking lot. The least congested entrances to the Hospital’s main campus will be from Grove Street, or off Leroy Street near the Center for Cancer Care.

Beginning Monday, August 15, 2022, work resulting in the temporary closure of Cottage Street will be underway. Please note: the Emergency Entrance is identified as North in the accompanying map.

  • Monday, August 15: The east end of Cottage Street will be closed from the Emergency Entrance to the intersection of Cottage and Leroy streets. Please access the Emergency Entrance via the Waverly/Cottage intersection or use the main entrance off Grove Street.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday, August 16 & 17: The west end of Cottage Street will be closed from the Emergency Entrance to the intersection of Cottage and Waverly streets. Please access the Emergency Entrance via the Leroy/Cottage intersection or use the main entrance off Grove Street.

The demolition of houses at 13 and 15 Grove Street began on Monday, August 8 and all cleanup is expected to be finished by the end of the week.

Interior construction work at Canton-Potsdam Hospital has begun in the main waiting area near Registration. Patients and visitors are asked to kindly excuse the minor construction they may encounter as a new electrical room is being built.

To view updated photos and information on the Regional Care Pavilion, visit https://stlawrencehealthsystem.org/about/regional-care-pavilion.