A fire December 15, 2015 destroyed the Medicine Manor just weeks before residents were set to return.

The re-construction of Medicine Tree Manor will be able to continue.

High River Council's representative to the Westwinds Foundation, formerly the Foothills Foundation, Cathy Couey says it's been a complicated process and there were concerns they'd have to close up construction for a few months.

"As you can imagine it's a pretty complex situation when there's two insurance companies involved," she says. "In looking at that our financial institution was concerned about the amount of risk that was going into the project and them going forward financially, not really knowing when they would see a return from those insurance policies."

She says at that point they decided under the current structure they weren't willing to finance the project as it was so the Westwinds administration and board have been working to come up with solutions to keep the project moving forward.

They've been meeting with the provincial government and looking at different options but the details still need to be worked out and that meant the re-build could have been shut down at the end of November.

"In light of looking at a potential suspension of the project, the builder's insurance company has come to the table and provided enough funding to get us through to the end of February, which is fantastic and just allows us to iron out those details with the provincial government so we can make those arrangements so there'll be no interruption in this project moving forward," Couey says.

The building was severely damaged in the 2013 flood and was with-in weeks of completion and ready to accept tenants in December of 2015 when it burnt to the ground.

Couey says they expect to welcome residents in November of 2017.

Work began again in January, 2016