Foxwood residents plan to rally at Costco construction site
Foxwood Village residents will hold a rally along Route 58 Tuesday to speak out against the developers of the Shops at Riverhead shopping center being built next to the retirement community.
Residents have been up in arms ever since the developers clear-cut the entire property, which stretches north from Route 58, even on land for which there are no current plans to build.
Just a small wooden fence now divides the shopping center property and Foxwood homes. Residents have also complained about the fence.
The developers had been given a deadline by the town by which to submit new plans for a proposed buffer separating the properties, and although they did file new plans by the town’s deadline, town attorneys had said those plans were insufficient.
The town is threatening to revoke the building permits for the project, which will feature a Costco Wholesale as its anchor store.
“They have just stalled the town with extension after extension and they have not kept their promise to make it right,” resident Paul Spina said as the reason for the rally along Route 58. “We will be asking that they stop stalling and improve both the berm and the fence.”
The event will run from 10 a.m. to noon.
