The hospital sits on 225 acres of land, 35 of which is in neighboring Dover. Mike Sullivan, Medfield town administrator tells GlobeSt.com that the town is in the process of developing a re-use plan for the site which it will have to buy at fair market value from the state. Sullivan says that part of the plan is to use 37 acres of the property as recreational fields and to develop something on the remaining acreage that "will provide revenue to the town."
A residential area abuts the hospital property on one side but Sullivan says that there is sufficient room to screen that area from whatever is developed on the site. The land is near Route 27 on the other side.
According to Sullivan, the state is closing the hospital because its philosophy has shifted towards a more community-based one for its residents. Residents will be moved to urban areas where they can more easily integrate into the work force.
Land re-use plans move notoriously slowly in the state, with most processes taking up to 10 years to complete.
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