The plans have been unveiled for the Lighthouse Project in Nassau Long Island. The project is not only one of the most amibitious developments to ever take place on Long Island, but also involves two of our good friend's companies. Rexcorp Realty and The Spector Group.
Note: 3Dwalkthroughs.com did NOT create any of the 3D assets for this project.
Phase 1 of The Lighthouse Project includes a new home for the NY Islanders with a redeveloped Coliseum, twin towers 31-stories tall that will house Long Island's first five-star hotel overlooking: a conference center, offices, homes and a "Celebration Plaza" larger than New York's Bryant Park.
Phase 2 includes a residential village sub-district with a neighborhood more or less built on top of parking decks, with each block a circle of multi-story townhouses and condominiums looking out over green courtyards, many of them with swimming pools. Below on street level will be grocery stores and dry cleaners.
In addition, the plans include four new office buildings comprising 1 million square feet under the residential subdistrict, with two each to be built on the Coliseum parcel's northwest corner and just west of RexCorp Plaza. The tallest would be no more than 175 feet.
The Lighthouse project will help to bring a ton of new jobs and tax revenues to Long Island and also serve as an important incentive to keep the NY Islanders on Long Island. The project will also follow green-building and smart-growth neighborhood development principles and include bicycle and jogging trails that connect with Hofstra University, Nassau Community College, Museum Mile and wind all the way to Eisenhower Park.
The complicated part now will be to get approvals for all the zoning, planning and environmental permits. It will be up to Hempstead Town to decide whether the site and its surrounding neighborhoods can handle the traffic and parking demands this development would place upon it.
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