September 5, 2008
Plan afoot for Nassau baseball team
A second minor-league baseball team would come to Long Island under a proposal to be presented today for redeveloping the area around the Nassau Coliseum.
Scott Rechler, president of Reckson Associates Realty Corp. and a partner in Charles Wang's Lighthouse Development Group, is expected to join with the Long Island Ducks baseball team's owner, Frank Boulton, and the Atlantic League's executive director, Joe Klein, to propose the minor-league team.
That joint venture is in a two-way competition against an alliance of Sterling Equities, owners of the Mets, and Blumenfeld Development Group, for rights to develop the Uniondale property.
Renderings by the Wang-Reckson team for a "new state-of-the-art minor-league ballpark in Mitchel Athletic Complex" is due to be unveiled at the news conference in Reckson Plaza in Uniondale, according to a statement from the group.
The group's spokesman, Howard Cannon of Rubenstein Associates, said the Suffolk-based Ducks would benefit from having a second Atlantic League team next door in Nassau. "It's almost like revenue-sharing," he said.
Cannon declined to say exactly where the proposed ballfield would go. The county's Mitchel Park athletic complex, which now includes a baseball field, is situated between properties leased from Nassau by Reckson Associates.
The complex is not part of the 77-acre Coliseum property that County Executive Thomas Suozzi is seeking an outside group to develop.
Cannon said the new Atlantic League team would go to Nassau only if the county chooses the Lighthouse development venture.
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