Riverside Property Owner: 'I Have Not Given Up On This Place'
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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sine-of-the-times
11:02 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thank you for posting Nate. And, Dr. Nasir, please give up. Sell it to the city for $1, so we can raise it. Show your benevolence and donate it back to the city. Please. You have the opposite midas touch, you are making it worse. Sure, he reacted, he got FINED! Well, his response was a short-sighted, half-a$$ed botched job. You don't paint a sign in such an awful white half-a$$ed way, you remove … more ›