Hempfield supervisors on Monday approved buying the former SCI-Greensburg property and plans to work with the county Industrial Development Corporation to demolish the complex.
The Trib reports that the cost of the 96-acre property was $3.5 million. The medium-security prison was originally built to hold 900 inmates and employed 360 people. It closed in June 2013, with state officials citing maintenance costs and a declining inmate population as reasons for the closure. It has been vacant since. Township manager Aaron Siko said the move is intended to prevent the approximately 350,000-square-foot facility from becoming a “nuisance structure similar to those found in other municipalities locally and abroad.”
Plans for the site after demolition have not yet been finalized.
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