Norman City Council members unanimously approved a $74,290 deal to buy more than three acres for a permanent homeless shelter in late November.
The land is part of Griffin Memorial Hospital, the state’s largest inpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment center. The hospital has been in operation for over a century, first built as a girls’ school in 1890, shortly after Norman was settled.
The City of Norman purchased the land from Griffin Hospital’s most recent owner, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The department is in the early process of vacating the campus for a newer site in Oklahoma City…