UPDATE: Tennessee Senator Bo Watson says that the State of Tennessee Department of General Services will continue to search and evaluate potential sites for a new regional mental health facility to replace the facility currently located at Moccasin Bend.

The news comes as a town hall is scheduled for Thursday night, hosted by TN State Rep. Yusuf Hakeem seeking comments from residents of the Eastdale community.

Eastdale, which is northwest of Chattanooga Airport, was named as a potential site for the relocation of the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute.

The previously proposed 160-acre site along Tunnel Boulevard in Eastdale "is no longer being considered as a potential site for the facility," according to an email from Watson.

Moccasin Bend is an archaeological site of nearly 956

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