US hospital with 500 beds unable to open as owner demands nearly $1m a month in rent

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US hospital with 500 beds unable to open as owner demands nearly $1m a month in rent
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An empty hospital in Philadelphia, with 500 beds, is having to remain closed as the owner is demanding that the city pay $1m a month to rent the facility in the middle of a global pandemic.

The hospital is owned by Joel Freedman of the real estate company Broad Street Healthcare Properties, who claims that he had offered to sell the hospital for below the market value or rent the beds for $60 a day, which is cheaper than whatHowever, the dispute over the hospital collapsed last week after mayor Jim Kenney that they no longer needed Hahnemann University Hospital, after Temple University agreed to lend them their music and sports venue for free.

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