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Healthy growth: Methodist Hospital’s once-controversial new complex tops out

Healthy growth: Methodist Hospital’s once-controversial new complex tops out
Photo by Jason Speakman

Talk about beaming with pride!

Bigwigs at Park Slope’s Methodist Hospital gathered at the construction site of its newest, years-in-the-making facility on Wednesday to put their John Hancocks on the structure’s last steel beam before workers installed it into the building’s frame.

The complex will be home to the borough’s largest outpatient-care facility, the Center for Community Health, which will allow doctors to treat even more patients requiring same-day procedures for a variety of issues, according to the head of the medical center.

“The Center for Community Health represents our commitment to delivering the highest quality, most comprehensive ambulatory care to the communities we serve,” said hospital president Dr. Richard Liebowitz.

The six-story building at 506 Sixth St. between Seventh and Eighth avenues is roughly the size of seven football fields, and will feature 12 operating rooms for same-day surgeries, six more rooms for special procedures, and facilities for cardiology, endoscopy, bronchoscopy, pain management, chemotherapy, orthopedic, and other treatments.

Hospital leaders expect construction to wrap in 2020, according to a rep.

But work on the center hasn’t been without hiccups. Civic gurus on Park Slope’s Community Board 6 only approved its construction after Methodist bigwigs conceded to several stipulations ahead of breaking ground, and locals later sued to stop the project, ultimately reaching a 2015 settlement that allowed it to proceed after hospital honchos agreed to further modify their original plans.

Reach reporter Colin Mixson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4505.
Going up: Workers hoisted the beam up in the air before installing it in the in-construction complex’s skeleton.
Photo by Jason Speakman