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by Laura Schofer
An overflow crowd attended the Hempstead Town Board's environmental hearing last week at the Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University on the proposed Lighthouse project designed to refurbish the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and redevelop the 150 acres surrounding the arena.
The hearing,'said Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, was an "opportunity for environmental experts, government leaders and the public to have their voices heard on ecological issues surrounding the Lighthouse development proposal. Issues such as traffic, air quality, sewage, drinking water and garbage disposal are important, and government officials must make sure that they are properly addressed by developers in any major development proposal."
"Green" clouds environmental issues
However, the state-mandated environmental hearing took second place
to the overwhelming financially "green" sentiments of most of the speakers, who urged the Town Board to approve the project as quickly as possible in order to stimulate the flaccid Long Island economy. Instead of water,
traffic and energy concerns, the hearing was all about the other green currency - money.
Charles Wang, the project developer, presented two videos to promote his project, which will include 2,300 residences, a 300-room hotel, 250,000 square feet of convention space, one million square feet of office space, and 500,000 square feet of retail ancTrestaurants.
Mr. Wang said his project would bring in 75,000 construction jobs and 19,000 permanent jobs and will be "a destination point that will reinvent the area."
It would have a grand canal, a five-star hotel, a sports complex, a minor league ball park, a movie theatre complex, a stage for live performances and, of course, a brand new coliseum that will be home for the New York Islanders, the NHL ice hockey team.
The first video showed image after image of shuttered stores, empty, dirty lots and broken down homes in contrast to the renderings of a bit of heaven in central Nassau that would be attainable with the completion of the Lighthouse project.
Mr. Wang submitted 15,000 letters in support of the Lighthouse project and then showed a second video in which average Long Islanders as well as Democrats Senator Charles Schumer, Governor David Paterson, Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, County Executive Thomas Suozziand a host of Republicans all stated, "I support the dream of a better Long Island," and endorsed the building of the Lighthouse project. (continued on page 3)
Greater Nassau
Chorus shines
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A healthy debate page 11
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-08-13 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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