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Swift Center campus in Sedro-Woolley reopened to public; port and Job Corps remain major occupants, innovation lab planned
Summary
A speaker described the Swift Center campus—the former Northern State Hospital—its transfer to local control in 2018, pedestrian improvements, ongoing Job Corps presence and plans with the Northwest Innovation Resource Center for an innovation lab.
A speaker representing local stewardship of the Swift Center campus described steps to reopen the site for public use, retain Job Corps operations and pursue an innovation lab partnership.
Commenter 3, a staff member, said the Swift Center was “the former Northern State Hospital campus” built by the state in 1912 and noted its design by the Olmsted Brothers. He said the state closed the hospital in 1972 and that “the port took ownership in 2018” with an explicit goal “to bring it back into…
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