Calverton Enterprise Park

Apparently, despite our (retired nurse) supervisor’s ongoing attempts to force a decision that Triple Five is not qualified and eligible to redevelop EPCAL, the...

It's still unknown whether a board majority will find the latest submission by Triple Five adequate for making a decision on the sale of Riverhead's remaining vacant acreage at the Calverton Enterprise Park — even as the board continues to wait for some word from the Riverhead ethics board on the complaint about Councilwoman Jodi Giglio's private meeting with the applicant.

The company looking to buy more than 1,600 acres of vacant land at the Calverton Enterprise Park submitted additional financial information, a concept plan and an economic benefits analysis to the Town of Riverhead today.

Riverhead Town officials have agreed to review the additional financial information Triple Five Group has offered to provide at the town's request. 

The town board has not had a chance to sit down and review the response together because it arrived late in the day on Friday, Supervisor Laura Jens-Smith. “We need to determine if what they say they’ll provide will be satisfactory.”

The town had set a deadline of 4 p.m. Wednesday for a response to its demand for financial statements from Triple Five. The town board is now considering a request to extend the deadline by a week.

Former Riverhead Community Development Agency director Chris Kempner acted as a broker for Triple Five earlier this year in the bankruptcy sale of Dowling College's Brookhaven campus, according to a report to the court filed by the college's attorneys in the bankruptcy proceeding.

A proposed rule change that would specifically allow the town board to make a 'qualified and eligible' determination without seeing financial statements from an applicant was shot down last week, unanimously. Here's why.

The Town of Riverhead has entertained more than 40 proposals from developers looking to buy some or all of the 2,900-acre former Grumman site in Calverton. Only a handful of proposals progressed to the point of a public hearing and of those, only two deals have closed — so far.

As Riverhead moved ahead with developing a master plan for the redevelopment of the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, the debate about protecting the L.I. Central Pine Barrens boiled over