Massachusetts have given the current owner of the shuttered Norwood Hospital until Nov. 1 to sell the property, or the state will take it by eminent domain.
Gov. Maura Healey on Friday signed into law a bill that enables the state to take the property and partially rebuilt facility.
The law exerts pressure on Medical Properties Trust, an Alabama-based real estate investment trust that owns the property, to make a deal before the state steps in and takes the land. Lawmakers passed the bill on the last day of scheduled formal sessions last Friday and shipped it to Healey’s desk…