LICH real estate suitor partners with NYU Langone and Lutheran
After months of limbo as to the fate of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), there are suddenly two competing proposals to buy the property, both of which have the backing of major area hospitals: NYU Langone Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center in one, and Brooklyn Hospital Center in the other.
Following the announcement on Wednesday, January 8 that Brooklyn Hospital Center has teamed up with an unnamed private equity firm and a real estate developer to propose a plan to turn the Cobble Hill site into a combination healthcare center and mixed-income housing complex, Crain’s reported that NYU Langone and Lutheran have now partnered with the existing frontrunner, Fortis Property Group, to handle the medical facility portion of their own condos-and-healthcare plan.
The Fortis plan was revealed on December 17, 2013 to be selected by LICH owner SUNY Downstate as the most promising of seven requests-for-proposal (RFP), but was almost immediately tabled for a vote by SUNY’s Board of Trustees after negative community reaction erupted.