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State to Sell 700 Acres Near Mental Hospital

YORK TOWNSHIP, MI-Industrial developers will be sought for the property near the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry. The extra acreage will be not needed for expansion of the hospital for mentally ill criminals.

By Robert Carr | Updated on April 26, 2001

YORK TOWNSHIP, MI-Though it probably won’t be used for residential neighborhoods or a parochial school, officials here hope 700 acres of land will bring in industrial developers. Currently, an 819-acre site near Willis Road on US 23 in Washtenaw Countyis used by the state of Michigan for the Center for Forensic Psychiatry.

A 300,000-sf hospital for mentally ill criminals sits on the southeast corner of the property. The rest of the property has been used as farmland. Plans are to build a new $95-million, 335,000-sf acre hospital on the north end of the site, and to demolish the old facility, says Penny Griffin, public information officer for the Michigan Department of Management and Budget.

“We’re not planning to finish construction on the new facility until 2003. We’ve just started reviewing how to market that property,” Griffin tells GlobeSt.com.

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