Friday, March 15, 2013
Trenton officials met with Iqbal Nasir Wednesday afternoon to discuss the former Riverside Hospital property.
Trenton officials gave the owner of the former Riverside Hospital an ultimatum Wednesday afternoon. Officials set a deadline for Iqbal Nasir to begin demolition and abatement at the property by May 15 during a Brownfield Authority meeting at city hall. Nasir said he would get the abatement started as quickly as possible, and people will be in the building working by the deadline. Nasir added he plans to move his personal office from its current location on Allen Road to building nearest to West Jefferson, after construction is completed. While Nasir did not give a date of completion, he did say the abatement should be completed by the end of the year. "It has to be internally demolished and then you go in and build, so I don't know a real …
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Last year, Trenton officials asked former Riverside Hospital owner Iqbal Nasir to fix several violations on the property, but the work had not been completed by late January.
Former Riverside Hospital property owner Iqbal Nasir said he is working on a detailed plan for the blighted property and intends to submit the plan to Trenton officials by Monday, according to Mayor Kyle Stack. Stack said she met with Nasir who told her his long-term plans for the property include redevelopment of at least four levels of the multilevel main building. Ideas for floors include: A deed restriction on the property, which Henry Ford Health System sold to Nasir in 2009, prohibit the sale of the property to persons and/or entities that would be in direct competition of Henry Ford Health System. Stack said Nasir is working with HFHS to help facilitate his plan. Stack said Nasir also plans to fix several violations on the property …
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Former Riverside Hospital property owner Iqbal Nasir told Mayor Kyle Stack that he no longer plans to go through with construction on a skilled nursing center and assisted living facility in September.
"I have not given up on this place," Iqbal Nasir said of the former Riverside Hospital property. "This is my neighborhood and I promise not to give up." Work continues this week to improve the exterior of the former Riverside Hospital property owned by Nasir. Though a recent project to redevelop Riverside did not go through, Nasir said he will continue to work with Trenton administration and Henry Ford Health System to create a plan for the property. Nasir had planned to build a skilled nursing center featuring 80 beds, an acute rehabilitation facility and a health services teaching school on the property, but told Mayor Kyle Stack in September he would not go through with the plan. "We are looking for some other opportunity, other than …
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
It appears the project at the former Riverside Hospital property is a no-go. What should the current owner, local doctor Iqbal Nasir, do with the property? We want to hear from you!
It seems the former Riverside Hospital will not be used for a major project that's been in the works for nearly two years. Mayor Kyle Stack said that property owner Iqbal Nasir, chief of medicine at Oakwood Southshore Medical Center, told her he would no longer go through with a planned $13 million, yearlong construction project that was to include a skilled nursing center and assisted living facility. The project was to be known as Riverside Commons. Residents have complained about the blighted property for several years since the hospital closed in 2002. City Administrator Jim Wagner said he and Stack met with high-ranking representatives of Henry Ford Health System who have offered to extended their help to assist the city in finding …
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Trenton City Council members voiced their opinions Monday night about the canceled construction project at the former Riverside Hospital property.
With planned development of the former Riverside Hospital site now called off, Trenton City Council members voiced their frustrations at Monday night’s meeting. Councilman Timothy Taylor did not mince words when expressing his anger with Henry Ford Health System, which currently has deed restrictions on the dilapidated property, keeping current owner Iqbal Nasir from building what could be considered a competing medical facility. “All those damn restrictions need to be lifted so that place can be developed, this is garbage,” Taylor said. “Once more they stuck it up our butts by their inaction. It’s no fault of anybody here, but they’ve been sitting on that property. Even though they don’t own it any longer, they’ve kept their arm in it …
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Property owner Iqbal Nasir told Mayor Kyle Stack that he no longer plans to go through with construction on a skilled nursing center and assisted living facility.
Following months of delay due to a property deed restriction, it appears the planned construction project at the former Riverside Hospital site will not go forward. Property owner Iqbal Nasir was not in attendance at Monday’s Trenton City Council meeting, despite an invitation to be there, but Trenton Mayor Kyle Stack said she spoke with him last Thursday. Stack said that Nasir told her he would no longer go through with a planned $13 million, yearlong construction project that was to include a skilled nursing center and assisted living facility. The project was to be known as Riverside Commons. Nasir told Stack that an attempt at a deed modification by Henry Ford Health System, the property’s former owner, was not acceptable. Although …
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Trenton city officials hope to hear from Riverside property owner Iqbal Nasir tonight.
Trenton City Council members have invited Iqbal Nasir, owner of the former Riverside Hospital property, to come to Monday night’s meeting and discuss his latest plans for construction at the site. Council also gave him the option to submit his plans in writing. A contractual deed restriction with Henry Ford Health System has delayed Nasir’s plan to build a skilled nursing center and assisted living facility. Nasir is chief of staff at Oakwood Southshore Medical Center and also owns Aberdeen Skilled Nursing next to Southshore. A few months ago he said he was eager to find a solution with HFHS that would allow him to go on with the construction project. However, HFHS officials have told Trenton city officials that Nasir did not respond to a …
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Trenton Mayor Kyle Stack said she would invite Iqbal Nasir, owner of the former Riverside Hospital property, to the next Trenton City Council meeting at 8 p.m. on Sept. 17 and/or ask him to submit his intentions for the property in writing.
"The ball is now in Dr. Nasir's court," Trenton Councilwoman MaryEllen McLeod said about Iqbal Nasir, owner of former Riverside Hospital property. Trenton officials agreed to invite Nasir to a future city council meeting to find out his plans for the property at 2171 W. Jefferson Ave at Tuesday's city council meeting. Mayor Kyle Stack shared a recent conversation she had with Bob Riney, chief operating officer for Henry Ford Health System, with council members, in which Riney "advised that HFHS had conveyed in writing a deed modification" to Nasir. The deed modification allows Nasir to construct and operate a long-term acute care hospital on the property, according to a memo written to city officials from David Lee, senior vice president …
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Trenton City Council meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers at Trenton City Hall.
Trenton Mayor Kyle Stack plans to address council members regarding issues surrounding the former Riverside Hospital at Tuesday's city council meeting beginning at 8 p.m. at Trenton City Hall, according to the meeting agenda. Stack wrote a letter to city council members explaining a recent telephone conversation with Bob Riney, chief operating oficer for Henry Ford Health System HFHS, regarding the property. In the letter, Stack states Riney advised that HFHS had conveyed in writing a deed modification on Aug. 23 to allow property owner Iqbal Nasir's project to proceed as proposed. Stack added Riney made it clear that, in the event Nasir does not move forward with his project for any reason, HFHS cannot demolish the structures as they have…
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Friday, August 10, 2012
A contract restriction has halted development of the former Riverside Hospital property located in Downtown Trenton.
Trenton City Administrator Jim Wagner said he will hand deliver a letter to the office of Nancy M. Schlichting, president and chief executive officer of Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), in regard to the former Riverside Hospital. Wagner said he and other Trenton officials will be drafting the letter Thursday and dropping it at the HFHS offices in Detroit Friday morning. In the letter, Wagner said he plans to "express our concern for the upcoming meeting between Dr. (Iqbal) Nasir and (HFHS Chief Operating Officer) Bob Riney as it relates to the Riverside Hospital project and how vital it is to the City of Trenton and, in particular, the downtown business district." He added, the letter will encourage HFHS officials to make a deed …
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Ron
8:09 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Well, in my opinion if they are going to require the owner of the former Riverside Hospital property to clean up, fix up, paint and repair broken Windows, they should also require the owner or owners of the former Mclouth Steel property to do the same. We're tried of looking at that mess too. more ›