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RALEIGH -
Wake commissioners voted unanimously this week to move ahead with a major expansion of a county jail and the construction of a new mental health treatment facility.The commissioners approved architectural designs for the two projects Monday.The expansion of the county's Hammond Road Detention Center, which has been planned for several years, will cost $150 million and add room for an additional 720 inmates to the existing jail and a new parking deck to hold up to 300 cars. The project is scheduled for completion by fall 2012.The county plans to spend $18.5 million for two mental health buildings at a 19-acre site off Sunnybrook Road, near WakeMed Raleigh Campus. The project is scheduled for completion by fall 2010.
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