News
Riverhead welcomes Peconic Crossing: ‘everything we want our town to be’
Rochester-based developer Conifer Realty, which partnered with Community Development Corporation of Long Island, today celebrated the completion of Peconic Crossing, with ribbon-cutting ceremonies and the grand opening of a first-floor art gallery being managed by East End Arts.
Government
Board members consider code revision to scale back downtown development
Town officials are moving forward with proposed zoning code revisions that would reduce the maximum building height on Main Street to 24 feet and the opportunity to build up to 48 feet with the transfer of development rights.
Denise Civiletti
No more wishful thinking: town board has the power — and responsibility — to act
Sure, you can hope developers will scale back plans. And yes, you can use the environmental review process to make sure they demonstrate their proposals will mitigate adverse impacts. But hoping and SEQRA will only go so far. You are a legislative body. DO SOMETHING about it.
News
New 7-Eleven proposed for West Main Street site; officials push back on design
The site of a vacant former auto repair shop and used car dealer on West Main Street is proposed for a new 7-Eleven store. The existing building would be razed and a new 3,060-square-foot retail store would be built there.
News
Downtown church members worry about construction impacts of new development
How will a five-story building with 170 rental apartments on the former Sears site on East Main Street impact downtown Riverhead? Members of Riverhead's United Methodist Church worry that pile-driving for the new development will impact the historic church, which they say was damaged by construction of the apartment building going up next to the one that's now being proposed.
News
Two public sessions set to scope out study of proposed 170-unit apartment building on former Sears site
The scoping sessions will be held during the next two regular town board meetings, on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. and on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. Their purpose is to help the town board define the issues and potential impacts the developer will be required to address in its environmental impact statement for the project.
Community News
Volunteers plant new garden beds at the Riverhead train station
“This place looks fantastic. It looks like a new train station.” More than three dozen volunteers turned out to help plant new garden beds at the Riverhead train station Saturday morning. The LIRR has worked to spruce up the station house and platform area, including installing security cameras and repointing the bricks.
News
Town pulls the plug on riverfront trash corral approved in 2012
The Riverhead Town Board last night voted to rescind a 2012 agreement that allowed a handful of downtown businesses to place trash containers in a town-owned parking lot on the Peconic Riverfront. The businesses have 15 days to have the containers removed.
News
‘You gotta have art’: Hopes for downtown revitalization still pinned on the arts
Riverhead has looked to the arts as an impetus for downtown revitalization off and on since the 1990s. Will the arts be the spark-plug that jump-starts revitalization this time around?
News
Riverhead will seek county grant to add downtown parking spaces
Riverhead officials are looking to move forward with a parking plan proposed by the parking district advisory committee five years ago that would add about 60 downtown parking spaces by reconfiguring and re-striping surface parking.