Supermarket mogul Catsimatidis backs a proposal developing LICH as smaller hospital in Brooklyn
John Catsimatidis, owner and CEO of the Red Apple Group and Gristedes Foods, has submitted a proposal to the State University of New York (SUNY) which would develop Long Island College Hospital (LICH) as a smaller, but full-service hospital side-by-side with ambulatory medical services and commercial, retail and residential facilities.
Catsimatides would be joined by Rudy Washington, a private real estate developer who worked with John Lhota in the Giuliani Administration.
The Catsimatides proposal is the only one of five under consideration by SUNY that would continue hospital services at the 155-year-old Cobble Hill institution.