State Offers 90-Plus Acres at Medfield State Hospital
Representatives of DCAM said they want to work with Medfield to sell a portion of the property to the town.
State representatives said Tuesday night that they are willing to sell approximately 90 acres of the former Medfield State Hospital property to the town. The acquisition price would be based on the Commonwealth recouping a portion of the costs it has incurred on the site since the hospital closed in 2004. Carole Cornelison, Commissioner of the Commonwealth's Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM), told the Board of Selectmen that the state would like to sell a portion of the property to the town so "you can control your own destiny with regard to this property." We see this as a partnership opportunity to help you achieve your goals to enrich the town and to assist the Commonwealth...We see this as a land disposition model," …
Ken Devlin
8:30 am on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
It would be a great site for town offices, a new police and fire, public works, more fields..... Why commercialize it ? Debt exclusion and town use will save the town money in the long term. more ›