The proposed forensics mental hospital in High Point that was the focus of a contentious rezoning battle has been denied licensure by the state:
City Manager Strib Boynton told city officials Wednesday that Florida-based GEO Care failed to win approvals needed from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services for the project proposed for the 90-acre former Evergreens property in Five Points.
GEO Care planned to convert the former nursing home facility into a 90-bed hospital for mentally incompetent criminal defendants or those found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.
GEO had an option to buy the Evergreens site from Guilford County for $3.1 million pending approval of the contract. The property instead will go back on the market for sale.
“We don’t know why the company did not get state approval,” said Democratic Commissioner John Parks of High Point.
Those supporting the rezoning of the land in question —which in turn would blocked the mental hospital —- say developers are eager to build there. We’ll see.
