Friday, May 28, 2010
Former Hotel To Become Work-Release Center
WEST VIRGINIA....
What was once a thriving 150 guest rooms hotel with a banquet hall, bar and lounge in Parkersburg is being turned into a state work-release center. The former Holiday Inn near the Seventh Street exit off Interstate 77 closed in 2007. Last year, corrections officials began looking at the facility after a report urged the state to increase the number of work-release programs to help ease prison overcrowding. The state paid about $2.2 million to acquire the property which has 22 acres of land. Contracts have yet to be awarded for architectural and engineering studies to transform the hotel into a minimum-security center, which is expected to house up to 140 inmates.
What was once a thriving 150 guest rooms hotel with a banquet hall, bar and lounge in Parkersburg is being turned into a state work-release center. The former Holiday Inn near the Seventh Street exit off Interstate 77 closed in 2007. Last year, corrections officials began looking at the facility after a report urged the state to increase the number of work-release programs to help ease prison overcrowding. The state paid about $2.2 million to acquire the property which has 22 acres of land. Contracts have yet to be awarded for architectural and engineering studies to transform the hotel into a minimum-security center, which is expected to house up to 140 inmates.
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