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A source has informed the Long Island Press that, although there has been no public announcement, the ambitious Lighthouse Project has already been abandoned internally by New York Islanders team owner Charles Wang.
This is coming from the LI Press, so take it with a grain of salt...but things aren't looking good for this project.
News 12 is reporting that he's abandoning it and Newsday is reporting that he's reorganizing people within his company but that everyone is keeping quiet. So who knows.
News 12 is reporting that he's abandoning it and Newsday is reporting that he's reorganizing people within his company but that everyone is keeping quiet. So who knows.
If Nassau shoots this down ....its doomed.
Wang should have some foresight and pitch it to Riverhead.
I'm not sure what to think. Overall, I think it's a good idea. But it seems like the developers are trying to avoid some of the environmental and traffic issues that came up at the last hearing. Also, not having this whole complex accessible via LIRR is stupid.
IMO, they should build a brand new arena out in Suffolk so that more of LI can get to 7:00 games without having to leave home at 4:00...and connect to the LIRR so that people from NYC can easily get there.
That leaves them more room for condos, offices, stores or whatever at the old Coliseum site.
Remember what happened when a promoter tried to stage a 3 day music festival at the abandoned Calverton site that would have drawn 50K people? "Field Day" back in 2003 or so? Nimby's crushed that. East End Nimby's will NEVER let anything worthwhile be built out there, even on an abandoned contaminated industrial site. They want to protect the pristine heavy metals in the soil.
You know what killed the Lighthouse project? The proposed housing there. If they would have left it at just shops and the ice rinks, then the NIMBY's wouldn't have killed it. But, new housing in LI always equates to new traffic, especially without LIRR access. You can't have a huge complex built with no railroad line going to it. You are just asking for trouble.
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