EPCAL

In first public appearance in Riverhead Town Hall since Triple Five signed a $40 million land deal in 2018, company chairman Nader Ghermezian told the town board Triple Five wants to close as soon as the town is able.

The dates of the two drag racing proposals at the Calverton Enterprise Park have changed after an environmental assessment found that the event’s would interfere with local birds’ nesting season.

One year after the contract deadline for the town to gain approval of the land subdivision required to complete the $40 million sale to Triple Five, the subdivision remains in limbo. Triple Five says it's ready to close, but will allow the town another year to get its approvals, the company's attorney said.

To the Editor: I personally feel having the drag strip at EPCAL is a positive thing for Riverhead and...

After public comments and board discussion that lasted nearly two hours, the Riverhead Town Board delayed action on the Scrambul drag race event planned for June 19 & 20 until it received and reviewed the fire marshal's report and confirmed coordination with the police department, Manorville Fire Department and Riverhead ambulance.

Triple Five Group, the company in a $40 million land deal with the Town of Riverhead to buy nearly all of the town's remaining vacant land at the former Grumman site in Calverton, detailed losses at its American Dream retail and entertainment complex in New Jersey in financial statements made public Thursday.

A two-day drag-racing event on the runways at the Calverton Enterprise Park won unanimous approval yesterday from the Riverhead Town Board. A second series of drag-racing events over eight days this summer remains under consideration.

There will be town-sanctioned drag racing on the EPCAL runways over five weekends this summer, if two separate proposals for drag-racing events are approved by the Riverhead Town Board.

The town board will schedule a public hearing on the site plan for a new recreational facility in Calverton that's been two decades in the making.

The town board voted unanimously last Tuesday to authorize a lawsuit commenced three weeks earlier on its behalf by an outside law firm — after deputy town attorney Ann Marie Prudenti spent about 20 minutes explaining why it wasn't really necessary.