SUNY Kills Peebles Deal
Incredibly — or perhaps inevitably, depending on your point of view? — SUNY has killed the judge-approved deal with Peebles and turned to the third bidder, Fortis — the one SUNY wanted to sell Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital to all along. SUNY says Peebles was imposing unacceptable conditions concerning a bond and an…
Incredibly — or perhaps inevitably, depending on your point of view? — SUNY has killed the judge-approved deal with Peebles and turned to the third bidder, Fortis — the one SUNY wanted to sell Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital to all along. SUNY says Peebles was imposing unacceptable conditions concerning a bond and an environmental review; Peebles says SUNY is acting in bad faith and wouldn’t even meet with them, according to a story in The Brooklyn Eagle and other outlets.
A founder of Fortis and his uncle donated $17,500 to Cuomo’s campaign, according to The Brooklyn Paper. Cuomo controls SUNY.
Fortis would work with NYU Langone Medical Center and Lutheran Health Care to run a freestanding emergency room and ambulatory services — just like the Peebles bid. It would also develop rental apartments, condos and town homes on the property, including 25 percent affordable units. No new zoning is “anticipated,” Fortis said.
It seems to us the second, public RFP process didn’t amount to much. What do you think of this turn of events?
SUNY Ends Talks With Peebles to Buy Long Island College Hospital; Fortis Next Up [Brooklyn Eagle]
Has the thought ever occurred to any of you that perhaps keeping hospital here open is not responsible thing to do
and it would be feelgood measure but fiscally irresponsible? Get out of your parochial insular mindset and out of your little neighborhoods and you’ll see that hospitals are closing in lot of places because of surplus of beds and duplication of services.
I want NY’ers to be able to feed their families. And tourism, thanks to our last mayor is now one of NY’s largest economic boons:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140525/BLOGS01/140529932/key-sectors-still-lag-the-citys-recovery?__hstc=109812634.fd6ca56a88d7ff81607d213b55bbd2ed.1394801768552.1401312079412.1401368913251.167&__hssc=109812634.20.1401368913251&__hsfp=4175532027
C/P: So the expansion of the economy remains dependent on the sectors that have led this recovery: retail, tourism, tech, film and movie production, and higher education.
lol @ his campaign promises. still waiting for my “affordable, safe housing for all”
Again Im referring to his promise during the election season. That was the idea of my comment. Sorry if I dint phrase it right.
Or maybe u slept through this election campaign.
See Crains “Still, critics charged that Mayor Bill de Blasio went back on a campaign promise to end what even he has called a hidden tax.”
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140523/REAL_ESTATE/140529930/city-hits-homeowners-with-another-water-bill-hike?__hstc=109812634.fd6ca56a88d7ff81607d213b55bbd2ed.1394801768552.1401312079412.1401368913251.167&__hssc=109812634.16.1401368913251&__hsfp=4175532027
Were you following the election?
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/10/mayoral_candidate_bill_de_blasio_wants_a_rent_freeze.php
Sorry for that slip of tongue. I am referring to what he campaigned for.
Hopefully he wasn’t serious… as in the Lich situation.
duck run for office pleeeeeeassse!
Whoever wrote this is smart …
“LICH defeat is smaller in scale”. The word “scale” is in the eye of the beholder. To you its definite that Olympics was more of a failure than the Lich failure. To Lich’s employees and Brooklyn residents Lich failure might be considered a bigger failure. But what is something definite and not up to individual judgement, is that Bloombergs Olympic bid wasn’t his signature issue. Lich was De blasios signature issue and he failed enormously.
Im not judging him on this only but on all things I and Dave mentioned. Time will tell.
so spot on… Ferrets LOL