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BY ROSE ADAMS
The owners of Luna Park
will transform Coney
Island’s sprawling Stillwell
Avenue subway station into a
shopping and entertainment
complex, transit authorities
announced Tuesday.
The terminal’s soon-to-be
refurbished retail spaces are
slated to open by Summer
2020, and will include an
arcade and restaurant-bar,
a coffee shop, and fi ve other
food and retail vendors, the
city said.
Earlier this year, the
transit agency’s real-estate
branch awarded a 15-yearlease
for the transit hub
to Central Amusement
International, a corporation
that has run Luna Park
since 2010. The international
company plans to renovate
nine of the station’s 11 retail
units — about 7,000 square
feet in all — including
space currently occupied
by local souvenir vendors, a
newsstand, and three chain
restaurants.
Some Coney Island
residents met the plans with
excitement, anticipating that
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