The state of Connecticut is prepping for the future transfer of land that includes an abandoned psychiatric hospital, records show.

The state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services received permission in 2010 to proceed with closing Cedar Ridge in Newington, the psychiatric division of Cedarcrest Hospital.

The former Cedarcrest Hospital in Newington was damaged by fire in 2022.

Records show the state plans to transfer an approximately 28-acre parcel that is part of the former crumbling Cedarcrest Hospital campus at 525 Russell Road in Newington and that it includes the three buildings “commonly known as the Hospital, Special Revenue, and Morgue Buildings,” totaling about 159,823 square feet. The proposed transfer excludes the cottages in the town of Newington, record

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