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Fortis of solitude: Meet the developer behind the controversial LICH project

The brouhaha has thrust a mid-sized player that values its privacy into the limelight

Terrence Storey, Joel Kestenbaum and Jonathan Landau (credit: Larry Ford)
Terrence Storey, Joel Kestenbaum and Jonathan Landau (credit: Larry Ford)

From the November issue: When construction workers began to dismantle the 156-year-old Long Island College Hospital earlier this year, it signaled the end of one bitter battle and the beginning of another. The 20-building medical facility, based in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, shuttered in 2014, sparking outrage among employees, residents and community officials. Soon after the State University of New York announced its decision to close the hospital, LICH workers rallied. Those protests were followed by a series of lawsuits, seeking to keep a full-service hospital on the premises.

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And the public ire quickly carried over to the developers that SUNY tapped to transform the site: Fortis Property Group, a company that has managed to stay out of the limelight for several years. [more]

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