In 2011 the Glen Cove City Council approved the demolition of this collection of offices in the center of downtown. I have showed you photographs of this before, and now it is even more overgrown. The problem has been that one doctor with his office in the complex has not agreed to a buyout of his office. There have been talks about using eminent domain to take over his property. There are competing lawsuits, because the chosen developed has been unable to start the project, six years later!
So today I drove by the site and was surprised to see this enormous backhoe and some dumpsters parked at the site. Guess what it is there for? Only question is when does this begin to happen? Oh, and want to hear an interesting coincidence? The demolition is being done by the same company that demolished the power plant, and which I spent more than a year photographing.
This is the office of the doctor who has been refusing to sell his part of the building. Stay tuned - I will be sure to drive by the site every day so that I can photograph the start of the demolition.
What is the plan once these buildings are torn down? Six years is a long time to be paying taxes on property that is mostly vacant.
ReplyDeleteJoan
It will be a big development with multi story housing and shopping areas, and a piazza.
ReplyDeleteI am going to disagree with you. We live in America. Private property is one of the pillars of our free and capitalistic society. In this case the State (Glen Cove) and all the other residents (you and your neighbors) should have no right to tell someone to sell their property. They purchased it, it meets the zoning requirements and I will assume the safety requirements, so it is theirs to do with as they please.
ReplyDeleteTo suggest the State exercise eminent domain to seize the property (as in Kelo v. New London) is a misuse of what eminent domain is for. Perhaps the developer should rethink what they want to do with the rest of the property. Clearly no place on Long Island needs another shopping center and nobody is going to be harmed if it isn't built.
Just my two cents.