Tennessee Building Commission approves new Moccasin Bend Mental Health facility minus the site
Tennessee’s State Building Commission approved a $260 million replacement facility for Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute in Chattanooga even though no new location is set to replace the old location on a Native American historical site.
State Sen. Bo Watson, who has been working with the Department of General Services and Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Marie Williams, said he expected the State Building Commission to approve the revised project.
“When we determined that we could not build on the historic Moccasin Bend site we knew we would be looking at other sites which might require a reworked plan for a new mental health facility,” Watson said.