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We don't need any more vacant housing. We need better employment/business opportunities. This would be another developers hit and run cash grab. We have enough of these laying around. Build a damn tourist attraction. A real one. Bring in healthy tourism and business will benefit. Financial and cultural growth is needed. Not more stupid housing and developments, and even stupider little strip malls.Enough already.
If they brought in a decent company the rest would take care of itself, instead they are building a development and hoping that will attract a company, backwards.
People you cannot have it both ways. You cannot complain of no jobs, no housing and when someone tries to build something all we hear is how wrong it is. Again I say please look at Nassau they cold sure use the tax money the light house project would be bringing in right about now and oh yea they are now going to have to foot the bill for that new arena with no marquee tenant, all because a greedy developer (according to some) wanted to get over (sounds familiar) now they have the empty land you all want and nothing to show for it.
We definitely need rental housing but there are many blighted areas that are already near mass transit that could be developed/redeveloped. I am sure it would be more costly but would make a lot of sense, rather than just building on vacant land that is remote.
I definitely agree. I know of one group on Long Island working hard on trying to make projects near mass transit happen. It's a hard road, no matter if its a revitalization or building something from scratch.
I love it. Long Island is so far behind the rest of the country in these sort of developments. I travel a lot, and it seems like there is modern progress in so many areas accross the country except for Long Island. We are so behind in the smart growth game its absurd. There is finally some positive momentum going on the island regarding this (Hempstead, Patchogue, Wyandanch Rising, Ronkonkoma Hub, East Farmingdale TOD), and Long Island needs to continue to break out of the 1950s. Please build Heartland, please. Can I say it loud enough?
I love it. Long Island is so far behind the rest of the country in these sort of developments. I travel a lot, and it seems like there is modern progress in so many areas accross the country except for Long Island. We are so behind in the smart growth game its absurd. There is finally some positive momentum going on the island regarding this (Hempstead, Patchogue, Wyandanch Rising, Ronkonkoma Hub, East Farmingdale TOD), and Long Island needs to continue to break out of the 1950s. Please build Heartland, please. Can I say it loud enough?
Which is ironic to me because Long Island used to be light years ahead of many places. I don't think it's a matter of living in the 50's, 60's or even 70's but of trying to not change from it's current form.
I love it. Long Island is so far behind the rest of the country in these sort of developments. I travel a lot, and it seems like there is modern progress in so many areas accross the country except for Long Island. We are so behind in the smart growth game its absurd. There is finally some positive momentum going on the island regarding this (Hempstead, Patchogue, Wyandanch Rising, Ronkonkoma Hub, East Farmingdale TOD), and Long Island needs to continue to break out of the 1950s. Please build Heartland, please. Can I say it loud enough?
People like you please just go over to queens brooklyn or where ever it is you came from already we have enough of this crap as it is and have nothing to do in terms of activites except for Wrong islands Love of shopping of course!
Excellent point, the other question who is staying?
The people in riverhead jail lol!
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