A Wellington Charity Hospital has been in pipeline for years and was set to be developed at 23 Adelaide Road.
The building consent had been granted and $150,000 worth of donations had been spent to get things rolling.
However it was revealed the land had suddenly been sold by the owners to Waka Kotahi, for potential Let's Get Wellington Moving work.
In just seven months since the developers originally bought the land, they'd made a $2 million profit.
It means the those behind the project have to go back to the drawing board.
Nick Mills met up with the chairman DR Graham Sharpe to find out what's next and if there's hope the dream will become a reality.
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