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Friday, October 4, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 40
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
MAN SENTENCED FOR NASSAU’S FUTURE SEEN CRASH INTO VET IMPACTED IN DEMOS, CENSUS
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Town OKs Willis Avenue development
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Roslyn Heights shopping center will add fitness studio, restaurant BY R O S E W E L D ON The North Hempstead Town Board approved plans for renovations at a Willis Avenue shopping center in Roslyn Heights at a meeting last Wednesday. The 30,859-square-foot, 2.3acre shopping center at 361 Willis Ave., which currently houses a CVS Pharmacy and a Starbucks Coffee, will receive two new businesses, restaurant Chopt Creative Salad Company and fitness studio Barry’s Boot Camp. Kathleen Deegan Dickson of the Uniondale-based law firm Forchelli Deegan Terrana Law, which represents the applicant, RH 361 LLC, and its developer Adam Mann, said that the new businesses were meant to complement the existing ones. “The concept here is to create a lifestyle center where local residents could walk, spend a lot
of time shopping, eating, meeting friends, working out,” Deegan Dickson said. “It’s a place where people will find a sense of community.” The existing CVS will also receive a drive-through window for its pharmacy, the parking lot will be “reconfigured,” and a site will be added for future businesses. The project received variances for its “parking lot layout” and for signs “to be consistent with other similar shopping centers in the town” at earlier meetings with the town’s zoning board, Deegan Dickson said. “To make sure that the impacts truly are minimized, Adam Mann has had several meetings and discussions over the past several months with the neighboring civic associations,” Deegan Dickson said. “He’s really taken it very seriously to the community and to inContinued on Page 69
PHOTO COURTESY OF SID JACOBSON JCC
Harvey Marx with his dog Gibbs at last year’s Sid Jacobson JCC Stronger Than Cancer 5K, which benefits the Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness center, named for his late wife. See story on page 2.
E. Hills residents concerned with asbestos in Mackay estate BY R O S E W E L D ON
sue with confirmed and pos- Mackay estate. sible asbestos as a result of an The Mackay estate at 2A Residents of an East Hills environmental impact state- Melby Lane is owned by Steven neighborhood surrounding a ment performed for the “Hap- and Wendy Shenfeld, who in Continued on Page 69 storied property are taking is- py House,” part of the historic
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