Mixed-use building, with apartments, retail and office space planned Calverton site

A mixed-use apartment building is being planned on vacant land along Middle Country Road in Calverton, according to plans posted online by a real estate agent advertising the building for lease. 

According to a listing on the commercial real estate website LoopNet, the building being planned includes 36 apartment units — 20 one-bedroom units and 16 two-bedroom units — above 30,000 square feet of “farmhouse style retail or office space” on the ground floor. The building would have frontage on Middle Country Road, and a seven-lot residential subdivision is being planned for north of the mixed-use building, the plans in the listings show. 

According to the listing, the buildings and homes would be developed on a 15.8 acre parcel located between J&R Steakhouse and the Miloski’s Poultry Farm, which is currently vacant, wooded land. The parcel is owned by Calverton Hamlet Center LLC, according to the Suffolk County GIS. The parcel’s zoning is split between Hamlet Center — which allows commercial uses with apartments on upper floors — and a residential zone.   

The listing says there are “approved plans in place” for the development and the building would be available in 60 days. That’s not true, Riverhead Town Senior Planner Greg Bergman said in a call Tuesday. Although Bergman said a development has been discussed, he said there has been no application filed with the town’s planning department nor any approvals issued.

“They will eventually be coming in for an application but nothing has been formalized. Nothing has actually been submitted,” Bergman said. “So I don’t know what the actual scope of the application, when it is submitted, will actually entail.” 

The broker who posted the LoopNet listing, Michael Murphy of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. A Stony Brook-based developer reportedly involved in the project did not immediately return a call seeking comment.