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New Hanover County approves $1-per-year lease for STAR Center to expand detox and reentry beds

New Hanover County Board of Commissioners · December 16, 2025
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Summary

The county approved a 9½-year nominal lease with LINC to operate the STAR Center as a 36-bed medical detox and stabilization facility; LINC will use 20 beds for transitional housing and RHA will occupy space. Operations are expected in spring.

New Hanover County commissioners voted unanimously to approve a lease with LINC Incorporated for the STAR Center, a stabilization and reentry facility on Robin Hood Road that staff says will house 36 beds for medical detox and crisis stabilization.

County staff described the lease as a nominal arrangement — "It will be for a nominal lease of a dollar per year, lasting 9 and 1 half years," said Sarah, a county staff member presenting the item. The lease requires the property be used as a…

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