CLIFTON — The city plans to build a medical center at the site of a former Vanderbilt Avenue clinic that has been shuttered for nearly a decade.
The city's Health and Hospitals Corporation on Friday opened the bidding process to build a $12.5 to $15.5 million Vanderbilt Family Health Center, at 155 Vanderbilt Ave. near Tompkins Avenue, which officials expect to open in the fall of next year, a spokesman for the agency said.
The two-story modular building will offer primary and specialty care, including mammograms, ultrasounds, radiology, podiatry, bone density tests and OB/GYN service, the spokesman said.
The center will have about 18,000 square feet of space inside, HHC said.
The building formerly housed the Adult Day Health Care Center run by Saint Vincent Medical Center, but closed down in 2007 after it was bought by HHC from the bankrupt Saint Vincent, according to HHC planning documents.
HHC formerly planned to redevelop the spot into a $23-million extension for Coney Island Hospital that would have included adult, pediatric, diagnostic and specialty care along with behavioral health services.
The deadline to bid on the Vanderbilt Avenue Family Health Center project is May 12 and HHC will hold mandatory pre-bid meetings April 22 and April 26 at Coney Island Hospital.
