[CPEO-BIF] Darby Drug site, Rockville Centre, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge upholds $85 million project

By Jeremy Harrell and Dawn Wotapka Hardesty
Long Island Business News (Ronkonkoma, NY)
July 7, 2006

ROCKVILLE CENTRE – After years of delays and fighting, developer Chase 
Partners has been given clearance to build an $85 million luxury 
apartment building on the former Darby Drug site in Rockville Centre.

Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Bruce D. Alpert last month nullified a 
decision by the village’s zoning board to deny the Chase project, a 
349-unit rental complex located a block from the Long Island Rail Road 
station. In his June 26 decision, Alpert said the project, dubbed 
Signature Place, met the village’s zoning code and chided village 
officials for intentionally delaying the project in order to change code 
requirements.

The judge also ordered the village to issue a building permit for the 
420,000-square-foot project, without modification, as soon as Chase 
Partners completes an estimated $10 million cleanup of the brownfield site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.libn.com/breakingNews.htm?articleID=5291

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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