Author: kbishop

A study to determine the feasibility of building a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) on the site of the long-closed Glenn Dale Hospital suggests that such a move is financially impractical.   The findings were first announced last week at a packed community meeting at…

For decades, local government officials and Glenn Dale residents have wondered if the site of the long-abandoned Glenn Dale Hospital would ever be improved.   Now, a Wisconsin-based development company will try to determine if it’s worth taking a crack at it.   The Maryland-National…

Thanks to Preservation Maryland’s involvement, active efforts to breathe new life in to the long vacant Glenn Dale Hospital in Prince George’s County have taken a major step forward with the selection of a qualified team to complete a redevelopment feasibility study; The Alexander Company.   As part…

The dilapidated Glenn Dale Hospital campus in Prince George’s County has sat vacant for more than three decades despite repeated efforts going as far back as the 1980s to find a new use for it.   It’s not surprising, then, that supporters of revitalizing the…

A Wisconsin-based developer has been picked to exorcise the ghosts at the reputedly haunted Glenn Dale Hospital in Prince George’s County, or at least breathe new life into the vacant 60-acre campus shuttered more than three decades ago.   The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning…

The restless spirits many believe still linger at the former Glenn Dale Hospital in Prince George’s County might want to clear out, or at least prepare for company.   That’s because two developers have expressed interest in converting the historic former hospital by Annapolis and…

It’s a former sanatorium. It’s been shuttered for three decades, its historic buildings left to decay. And it’s a ghost hunter’s delight.   Welcome home!   Prince George’s County has launched yet another effort — at least the third — to convert the historic Glenn Dale…