Brooklyn Hospital enters LICH bidding war
Brooklyn Hospital Center has jumped into the ongoing dispute over what will happen to the beleaguered Long Island College Hospital (LICH) with a new plan to turn the Cobble Hill site into a combination healthcare center and mixed-income housing complex.
According to Crain’s, Brooklyn Hospital, located in Fort Greene at 121 DeKalb Avenue, teamed up with an unnamed private equity firm and a real estate developer to draft a proposal that they unveiled on Wednesday, January 8.
Their plan is to close LICH as a full-service hospital and then transform part of it into an emergency- and outpatient-focused facility that employs as many current LICH employees as possible.