The North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System announced Wednesday that it will be relocating its headquarters from Great Neck to Lake Success, according to Chief Communications Officer Terry Lynam.
The move from 100, 145 and 155 Community Drive, a single building with multiple addresses, to 2000 Marcus Ave, which is expected to take place in mid-2015, will bring additional space for 500 people, including communications, operations, fundraising, legal, managed care, strategic planning, business development and senior executives., Lynam said.
“The current building has reached its capacity,” he said. “Moving to one bigger location will make things more efficient.”
The health system’s headquarters, which currently works in conjunction with the system’s dialysis and sleep disorder center at the same location, operates in a single three-story 100,000 square-foot building Lynam said. The new building, a three-story 112,000 square-foot building previously owned by Astoria Bank in 2011, was signed for a 30-year lease in November of 2013, he said.
Currently, Lynam said, the Marcus Drive property is being renovated floor by floor.
“We’re going through and removing all of what was previously there,” he said.
Lynam was unable to provide the cost of the move but said that move was of “significant cost.”
The property at Community Drive will still be used for the clinical practices there now, he said.
The hospital system includes 19 hospitals on Long Island and New York City and employs 54,000 people, making it the largest private employer in New York State.
