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The plan -- which still depends on Kent County and state officials reaching a lease agreement -- is the closest both sides have come in almost 20 years to finding a replacement for a site county officials have called an "embarrassment." The current, aging location is owned by the county and leased by the state.
Construction of a new facility would begin in 2008.
"We are cautiously optimistic that maybe the planets will align and we can get this thing done," said County Commission Chairman Roger Morgan, R-Rockford. "There are some hurdles we need to get over."
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