The nursing home, with a day program for seniors, would be housed in a new eight-story building.
The roof was 80 feet high, the equivalent of an eight-story building.
Another man fell to his death from a eight-story building.
The store will be moved to a smaller space on the third floor of the eight-story building.
The eight-story building, to be completed in April, has also 15,000 square feet of commercial space.
Apartments in the eight-story buildings will be ready for occupancy this fall.
At least $16 million is needed to demolish the 145th Street structure and replace it with an eight-story building, he said.
The first of two eight-story buildings is to get under way this fall.
He set off in what seemed the most direct route toward the eight-story building.
The housing project consisted of 256 units within four eight-story buildings.
