Downtown Riverhead is receiving a new traffic signal at the intersection of East Main Street and Ostrander Avenue. READ
Tag: Joe Petrocelli
Builder Joe Petrocelli has decided to restore the historic Howell House on East Main Street after all.
About a week ago, he had planned to demolish the 112-year-old structure, which sits within a Riverhead Town historic district and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and replace it with a parking lot. READ
The Riverhead Town Board granted site plan approval Thursday to a five-story hotel and restaurant planned for the northwest corner of East Main Street and Ostrander Avenue. READ
A new traffic signal is a possibility for East Main Street at Ostrander Avenue as a proposed restaurant and five-story hotel is considered on the northwest corner of the intersection, according to an attorney for the developer of the project. READ
Courtesy rendering of Preston House rehab and five-story hotel proposed by Joe Petrocelli
Second Street and parts of Ostrander Avenue could join downtown Main Street on the National Register of Historic Places, under a proposal from the Riverhead Town’s Landmarks Commission. READ
Without tax incentives from the Riverhead Industrial Development Agency, the Long lsland Aquarium in downtown Riverhead would pay close to $1 million a year in taxes and would not be able to stay open, according to Bryan DeLuca, the executive director of Atlantis Holdings, the company that owns the complex containing the aquarium, the Hyatt Place hotel, Treasure Cove Marina and Jerry and the Mermaid. READ
Critics of Councilman John Dunleavy’s proposal to increase the salaries for town officials didn’t mince words Tuesday night. The plan was called “terrible” and “premature.”
And by the end of the meeting, only Mr. Dunleavy voted in favor of the measure. READ
The Riverhead Town Board voted 4-1 to adopt its 2016 town budget and to pierce the state’s two-percent tax levy cap at its meeting Tuesday night. READ