Brooklyn Hospital Center May Sell One Building To Build An Ambulatory Care Center At 95 DeKalb Avenue
The Brooklyn Hospital Center is reportedly planning to sell the Maynard Building at 240 Willoughby Street to an as-yet-undetermined developer in order to finance a new Ambulatory Care Center, to be built on the hospital’s corner parking lot at 95-99 DeKalb Avenue.
The plans, described during a Community Advisory Board meeting earlier this week and first reported by DNAInfo, don’t have a developer or even a timetable — and is not even “definitive,” according to a spokesperson — but are still pretty detailed.
A request for proposals (RFPs) was put out last year and drew multiple proposals, which are still being reviewed. Now, the hospital is in talks with these various developers, discussing price and other issues, said Senior VP of Strategic Planning Joan Clark during the board meeting.
The 21-story Maynard Building houses offices and labs for the Internal Medicine Department and Vascular Services, but also offers lovely views of the East River and Manhattan skyline and, if purchased, could easily be converted into a residential or mixed-use complex.
Any proceeds from a sale would aid in Brooklyn Hospital’s plans to build a 155,000-square-foot Ambulatory Care Center on the 95 DeKalb site — which would help their ongoing efforts to double the size of their ER, which has seen increased demand and wait-times — partially because of the influx of new residents to Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, and Clinton Hill, and partially as a result of Long Island College Hospital’s closure.
The hospital is also in the process of opening more urgent care centers throughout the borough by 2016.
