Cash-starved Suffolk selling Yaphank tract
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone. (April 5, 2012)
Bellone: Suffolk in fiscal emergency
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone
It was once a 230-acre expanse in Yaphank slated to be part of former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's instant downtown -- a skating rink, an arena, a hotel, 1,200 units of affordable housing and a solar industrial park.
Now, County Executive Steve Bellone has put forward a pair of measures to declare much of the same tract as surplus and sell it for close to $20 million; it's slated...
