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OIC outlines $25 million plan to restore 224 Rose Street as behavioral health, workforce campus
Summary
Opportunity Industrialization Center (OIC) presented a redevelopment plan for the former Memorial Hospital at 224 Rose Street to create a behavioral health and workforce training campus; the project team requested city incentives and said a public hearing will be scheduled April 14.
Representatives from Opportunity Industrialization Center (OIC) presented a redevelopment proposal for 224 Rose Street, the former Memorial Hospital, that would combine expanded behavioral-health services on the first floor with workforce training and community programming on the second.
OIC officials told the Rocky Mount City Council Committee of the Whole on March 24 that the adaptive reuse project would preserve the buildings historic exterior, remediate significant interior deterioration, and create an integrated campus linking Edgecombe Community College, the Edgecombe Health Department and the nearby Rocky Mount Event Center.
Project team members described the building as roughly 13,000 square feet across two floors (about 6,600 square feet per floor) with three major wings. Due diligence has identified asbestos, mold, lead paint concerns, an underground storage tank near Atlantic Avenue, and unsuitable perimeter soils requiring 2 to 4 feet of removal and engineered replacement. The design…
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