From the Daily News:U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Carla Craig denied the request filed this week on behalf of the Village Management Group, the runner-up in the Oct. 16 auction for St. John's Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica.
Village Management had said it hoped to place health care facilities at the sites. It also charged the bidding process was unfair.
The court's decision was a disappointment for Borough President Helen Marshall and others who say Queens desperately needs more medical centers. Guttman had originally ruled out using the buildings for health care, but seemed to leave the door open in a statement Wednesday.
"We are satisfied with the court's ruling and excited to begin the process necessary to put these properties back in use," said Guttman, president of Pearl Realty. "We have spoken to the borough president and are ready to work with the community to explore development opportunities that will make sense for Queens."
6 comments:
To the Guttmans, here's a Yiddish phrase "pikuach nefesh brecht a din."
Restore the hospital now!
I don't understand why the POL did not act last year prior to the properties shutting down. It cost more to start them up and refurb them now than continuing the operations while they were open.
Now that they will be bought at action the folks "open to having health care in these facilities seem to me at least serving their own religious community rather than serving a community that they don't know well and will fail doing so. Why does the public put up with POLS whom watch vital public amenities fail and act after the fact?
NOW Helen Marshall is disappointed? Where was Helen Marshall BEFORE the hospitals closed?
Whatdya want from me? I was waiting for someone to grease my palm. Winky Winky
. "We have spoken to the borough president and are ready to work with the community to explore development opportunities that will make sense for Queens."
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What makes sense is to have more hospitals.
Helen Marshall does not even know what Borough she is in.
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