The 140-plus acres of Rome’s mental hospital have stayed empty and forlorn-looking since the facility closed eight years ago.
The shuttering of Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital came as the state was just beginning to execute its settlement agreement with the Justice Department over hospital conditions and the lack of community services.
The city government exhausted its options on the dormant property after trying to market it for mixed-use redevelopment over the past eight years, the Rome News-Tribune reported.
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