SUNY cuts off talks with second bidder to take over LICH

[hrmjustin]

ERIN DURKIN


In another blow to mostly-shuttered Long Island College Hospital, the State University of New York cut off talks with its second-choice bidder to take over the ill-fated site Wednesday.

SUNY torpedoed a deal that would have sold the Brooklyn site to the Peebles Corporation for $260 million, saying the company had asked taxpayers to help foot the bill for environmental cleanup and might impose long delays before offering any healthcare services.

“Unfortunately, several portions of the Peebles proposal have dramatically changed,” said spokesman David Doyle. “These deviations from the initial proposal are unacceptable to SUNY from both a health care and business perspective.”


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1. :(

Aww, man...

[hrmjustin]

2. Assemblyman Karim Camara questions SUNY's "integrity and capacity" to deal with LICH redevelopment -

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/assemblyman-karim-camara-questions-suny-integrity-capacity-deal-lich-redevelopment-blog-entry-1.1809954