Norwich - With his $246 million plan for Norwich Hospital "off the table," Long Island developer Donald Monti will give an hour-long presentation to the City Council June 1 on his ideas for revitalizing downtown in conjunction with several downtown property owners and the city.

Mayor Benjamin Lathrop and planning director Peter Davis held a half-hour conference call with Monti Thursday to inform him of the Norwich Hospital Review Committee's decision Tuesday to "set aside" Monti's proposal for the city's portion of Norwich Hospital. City officials instead will try to form a collaborative agreement with Preston on a joint approach to development of both the Norwich and Preston portions of the hospital property.

They also asked the Long Island developer to forgo a private meeting planned for Monday with downtown property owners and instead make a full presentation of his ideas to the City Council at 6 p.m. June 1 prior to the regular council meeting.

"We had a very positive conference call with Donald Monti and his staff," Lathrop said Thursday. "I think he is a very capable developer, and he will be given a fair chance to give us a presentation."

Brandon Palanker, director of marketing and public affairs for Monti's firm, said the June 1 presentation would focus on downtown. For the past year, Monti has been meeting with downtown business leaders and property owners, including Ronald Aliano, owner of the Marina at American Wharf.

Aliano had been asked to arrange Monday's meeting with several participants, possibly including Norwich Community Development Corp. Executive Director Robert Mills. But Lathrop asked that the Monday meeting be canceled in favor of the public presentation. Aliano agreed.

Aliano said he plans to attend the June 1 meeting to hear the presentation. "He has an interesting perspective on downtown, and it's worth hearing," Aliano said.

In an interview a few days after he submitted his Norwich Hospital proposal, Monti said the success of the hospital development would be very connected to the revitalization of downtown. Part of his proposal called for a commuter ferry to downtown from the hospital property.

He stressed the concept of "urban suburbia" to connect the hospital property to downtown.

Palanker said Thursday that Monti is focusing more on urban revitalization in recent months, so much so that he changed the name of his firm from Renaissance Realty to Renaissance Downtowns.

C.BESSETTE@THEDAY.COM