Long Island Science Center

Riverhead officials voted 3-1, with one abstention, to move ahead with eminent domain process against the L.I. Science Center's East Main Street property.

Riverhead officials defended a proposed eminent domain taking of the Long Island Science Center property during a contentious public hearing Wednesday night.

A split Riverhead Town Board voted Tuesday to set a May 20 public hearing on condemning the Long Island Science Center’s long-vacant East Main Street building.

The Long Island Science Center submitted a 92-page packet Tuesday in a failed last-minute bid to stop Riverhead from advancing acquisition of its East Main Street building.

Riverhead officials seem poised to move ahead with condemnation of the long-delayed science center building.

Riverhead Town will end its effort to seize a blighted building on East Main Street from the Long Island Science Center, clearing the way for the nonprofit to build a new museum on the town square.

The presentation by the science center’s architects and its development consultant Thursday made town officials optimistic about plans for developing the blighted building at 111 E. Main Street, which sits on the west side of the town square. 

The Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday scheduled public hearings to acquire the East Main Street building owned by the Long Island Science Center and to buy out the lease of the downtown bar Craft’d using the town's power of eminent domain.

Riverhead Town is moving ahead with eminent domain proceedings to buy out the lease of the downtown bar Craft’d and acquire the East Main Street building owned by the Long Island Science Center, according to resolutions on the Town Board’s agenda today.

The Long Island Science Center’s president says Riverhead officials are obstructing the organization's plans to build a new museum on East Main Street, as the Town Board moves a step closer towards taking the nonprofit's property using eminent domain.