Archive for the Lighthouse
1:10 pm - At the conclusion of today’s hearing, the D.G.E.I.S. (Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study) was delivered by the Lighthouse developers. I’m told the document is 1,800 pages.
Traditionally, after a scope is accepted - as it was today by the TOH board - developers take months before delivering a D.G.E.I.S. Charles Wang and Scott [...]
The Town of Hempstead will vote to adopt the scope of the environmental studies for the Lighthouse Project in a meeting on Tuesday at 10:30 am at Hempstead Town Hall. The studies have been completed and will be submitted to the Town soon after the adoption of the final scope.
Point Blank will be there and, much [...]
The Lighthouse Project has a healthy pulse.
The developers’ goal of having a shovel in Coliseum property ground this summer - perceived by many (including this space) as a longshot - is still a possibility.
Positive momentum, if not flat-out good news, could be officially detailed as early as next week.
Over the last 24 hours, Point Blank received more [...]
There is no discernible progress over the last several months to report on the Lighthouse Project, Charles Wang and Scott Rechler’s transformation of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and surrounding property.
Conversations over the last week with sources on all sides of the Islanders arena project - Nassau County, the Town of Hempstead and the Lighthouse - revealed scant optimism that a [...]
Tom Suozzi yelled at me once, which I thought was pretty cool. I was with Charles Wang and some Islanders executives far more senior than me for a meeting with the Nassau County Executive on the Lighthouse Project. Suozzi wanted our marketing materials to focus on renovating the Coliseum and keeping the Islanders, but “All [...]
Editor’s Note: Just as I published this entry, I heard from Nassau County. My interview with County Executive Tom Suozzi will run on Thursday…CB
Throughout the last week many of you have called for Point Blank to create a petition, host a rally, storm Town Hall and do all sorts of stuff on behalf of the Lighthouse Project.
I appreciate where [...]
3:55 pm - In an interview recorded this afternoon, NHL commisioner Gary Bettman said Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead must pave the way for ground-breaking on the Coliseum property by next summer.
The interview is part of “NY Hockey This Week” with Don La Greca and I on 1050 ESPN Radio and will be [...]
Even when the NHL commissioner speaks about the Lighthouse Project, it’s clear that Charles is in charge.
This was Gary Bettman with reporters yesterday at the Coliseum, when asked what happens if Charles Wang and Scott Rechler do not get a deal to transform the arena and surrounding property:
“I don’t want to have that conversation. This [...]
Long Island resident Charles Wang purchased the New York Islanders in April of 2000. Ever since that day, he has steadfastly refused to play political hardball. Since he doesn’t, the plight of the Islanders never gets enough attention, while the owner of the Islanders never gets any credit for his willingness to be patient while working [...]
