By Real Estate NJ
A nonprofit group in Paterson is suing St. Joseph’s Medical Center over its decision to pull out of a plan to build a hotel on hospital property, according to a published report.
The group, Medical Missions for Children, filed a complaint on Thursday in Superior Court in Paterson, according to a story by NJ Advance Media. The report said the agreement accuses St. Joseph’s of breach of contract after it pulled its support for the project, whose planning goes back to 2008 and led to the signing of a ground lease in 2012.
But the incoming CEO at St. Joseph’s, who took over in 2014, began to question whether the ground lease was valid, the report said, and lawyers for the hospital later determined it wasn’t. According to NJ Advance Media, the hospital had not received the complaint by Thursday afternoon, but a spokeswoman called it “frivolous.”
For more, see Thursday’s story by NJ Advance Media.
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