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The Community Newspaper
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Building Freeport's ''new" Main Street
Village master plan proposed
A new vision for Freeport?
The Village of Freeport, home of the Nautical Mile, is on its way to becoming one of Nassau County's Cool Downtowns, with residents living and working in multi-story buildings near the raikoad station, which is within walking distance of shops, restaurants, and other amenities.
The project, called "The North Main Street Vision Project" announced last week by Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, will include a one-mile stretch from the transit hub at the LIRR station to the border separating the Village of Freeport from the hamlet of Roosevelt.
Freeport Village Major Andrew Hardwick joined Mr. Suozzi, Legislator
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Kevan Abrahams, representatives from Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy's office, the Regional Plan Association, Sustainable Long Island and other community organizations, to announce this joint downtown visioning project.
"The end result is to be a comprehensive plan that will offer both upscale and affordable housing for our seniors, newcomers and the next generation of Freeporters, while helping to create economic development and jobs for our residents," said Mayor Andrew Hardwick. "I have said for years that Freeport has great potential to become a 'Cool Downtown' and I am delighted to be working with Mayor Hardwick and the commu-
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nity to develop a vision for Freeport's future," said Mr. Suozzi. "We will build upon Freeport's existing assets, including the beautifiil waterfront, to make Freeport an exciting destination place where people, especially young adults and empty nesters, all live, work and play in close proximity to public transportation."
The North Main Street Vision Project will be part of the county executive's "New Suburbia" and "Cool Downtowns" initiative. This visioning process provides a series of workshops and public meetings for Freeporters to plan for the future of their downtown.
The Freeport visioning team will hold its first public meeting on September 15,
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from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Freeport Recreation Center. At that forum, the community will learn about the visioning process and have the opportunity to share ideas and provide initial feedback.
The goal of the visioning project is to assist the village in developing a 21st century master plan to help enhance its economic, social and environmental sustain-ability.
"I am happy to see that North Freeport will get the much needed rehabilitation so that all of Freeport looks like one community. This visioning will have the residents of Freeport who travel along the north main corridor feel
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-08-27 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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