I was proud to serve on the media panel at Vision Long Island’s Smart Growth Summit last week. This Herald Community Newspapers editorial emerged out of that conference, which is always informative and inspirational:
Transforming the Hub will take political leadership
“What does the future of the suburbs look like?”
That was the question pondered by Rebecca D’Eloia, RXR Realty’s vice president for development and the project manager overseeing transformation of the Nassau County Hub, last Friday afternoon.
She was speaking before an audience of more than 1,000 people at the nonprofit Vision Long Island’s Smart Growth Summit, and all of them were eager to hear her answer. If RXR and its partner, BSE Global, succeed in remaking the Hub — the 72 acres surrounding Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum — it will look very different than it does now, D’Eloia made clear.
She outlined plans for a massive $1.5 billion project that would create a new mixed-use neighborhood with three distinct areas — a Sports and Entertainment District, an Innovation District and a Town Center. D’Eloia’s presentation was at once informational and uplifting. It gave us the sense that the acres of asphalt that now lie idle most of the time, except for the few hours during a game or event at the Coliseum, will at long last be put to good use and help propel the county forward.
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