So much for the St. Joseph’s Garden mixed-use project. As Sandra Baker writes in the Star-Telegram:

The vacant St. Joseph Hospital on the near south side, where Tarrant County’s first hospital was founded by nuns in 1885, is headed for the wrecking ball and will be replaced by a county healthcare facility, its new owners said.

On Tuesday, Tarrant County commissioners approved the hospital district’s purchase of the property from Diversified Capital, a New Jersey-based real estate firm, for the county’s publicly funded healthcare system, John Peter Smith Hospital. The county paid $5.1 million for the 12-story building, which dates to the 1950s, and surrounding property, including a parking garage, totaling 8 acres.

It had been pretty obvious that the St. Joseph’s Garden development had stalled, so I was sort of expecting some news about the property. Will be interesting to see what JPS plans to build in its place.