It closed in December 2004 and all inmates and staff were transferred to the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti.

[citation needed] In January 2002, Kojaian Management Corporation purchased the property for US$50,000,000 (equivalent to $84,699,352 in 2023).

[1] Plymouth Township acquired 323 acres (131 ha) of the property in September 2011 for US$606,150 (equivalent to $820,993 in 2023).

agreed that under Michigan land law,[citation needed] the ownership of the property still resides with the City of Detroit.

Just to the east of this property, the City of Detroit, owns 45 acres of the original site, where dilapidated prison structures still stood[6] until they were demolished in the spring of 2017.