Beach Cities Health District to seek proposals for old Redondo hospital
by Garth Meyer After a failed bond measure and a disbanded public-private partnership, the focus has shifted at Beach Cities Health District for its proposed Healthy Living Campus. The partnership to build an assisted living complex and tear down the old hospital ends May 1. In its place, the health district prepares a new request for proposals for a land lease of the hospital building and its parking lot. Potential uses would be anything deemed health-related, including affordable housing. The BCHD plans to be out of the old hospital by March 2027. Also announced last week, BCHD’s Center for Health and Fitness will move from the old hospital to the third floor of the 510 building – nearest Prospect Avenue on the 11-acre campus in Redondo Beach – the lease approved April 23 by the BCHD board. Though the district intended to tear down the 1960 hospital, citing seismic concerns (its demolition cost was part of the $30 million bond measure last fall) a developer could renovate the building and use it. In the original scope of the Healthy Living Campus, the Center for Health and Fitness would have moved off campus during construction, and come back, to a not-yet-decided place. PACE…
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