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Friday, March 11, 2022
Vol. 97, No. 10
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IDA postpones vote on Middle Neck Rd. plan
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Cites need to address community concerns, discuss with developer BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Plans for a four-story mixeduse apartment project in Great Neck could be approved by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency’s Board of Directors on March 31, officials said. The IDA’s agenda for last Thursday night’s meeting listed the project, developed by Gesher Center LLC, as subject for an approval resolution for its plans and proposed tax breaks. IDA Chairman Richard Kessel, during the meeting, said the board decided to table the resolution so that discussions could be held between the client and the village stakeholders. “I know that there are a lot of people in the village and throughout the Great Neck peninsula who are interested in the project,” Kessel said. Kessel said it is the board’s intention to address the application
during the March 31 meeting. The amount of the tax breaks was not clear. The project is a proposed four-story, mixed-use building at 733-41 Middle Neck Road in the Village of Great Neck that would stand 44 feet high and contain 60 homes – including 56 two-bedroom apartments and four onebedroom apartments – along with 93 below-grade parking spaces, a recreation center and a public art gallery. Five buildings riddled with chipped and faded paint currently occupy the space. In December 2019, the project started out as a 25-unit complex with 12 incentives later granted by the Board of Trustees in February 2020. Village officials later said that the original proposal was withdrawn by the developer, and plans for the 60-unit complex were taken directly to the village’s Board of Continued on Page 34
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Parkville School had a crazy hat day to celebrate National Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2.
Plaza’s mayoral race headlines G.N. elections BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The Village of Great Neck Plaza’s mayoral race headlines the peninsula’s slate of elections that will take place on
Tuesday. Plaza Mayor Ted Rosen and the United Residents Party are running for re-election against mayoral challenger Leonard Katz and the Revive Great Neck Plaza Party.
Rosen, a practicing lawyer, was first appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1985 and served as the village’s deputy mayor before defeating Katz in the 2020 election. Rosen is Continued on Page 33
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