The Lumberton Board of Aldermen is set to put the former Lumberton Citizens Hospital off of West 10th Avenue out to bid for sale, with a bid possibly being accepted as soon as the board’s June 2 meeting.
The hospital, which has been closed approximately 25 years, was declared surplus at the May 5 meeting, with board members agreeing to sell the building to get it off the city’s tax rolls.
“The building is in very bad shape, so more than likely they will just be buying the property or whatever they decide to do with it,” Ward 3 Alderman Jonathan Griffith said. “Right before it closed, it had a big major renovation, and it became a very nice facility at one time.
“They did a couple of million dollars in renovations, then all of a sudden it just closed and it stayed a vacant building all these years.”
Griffith said the process for bids will be advertised in The PineBelt NEWS before the next meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
“I agree with the process,” he said. “Hopefully, there’s a lot more buildings that we can get sold, that we are not particularly using or benefitting from having them on the city’s tax rolls.”
