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Top: A rendering of RXR's Glen Isle development. (Courtesy RXR) Bottom: Construction crews at work building a development in Glen Cove. (Photo
by Amanda De Lauzon).
COST OF CONSTRUCTION
BY JAMES BERNSTEIN
On a recent late summer afternoon, Joe Graziose gently maneuvered his van across a
bumpy construction site in Glen Cove that will one day be home to 1,100 residences
in a waterfront section of the city known as Garvies Point.
“Beautiful,” the gravelly-voiced Graziose, an executive vice president of RXR Realty,
the developer of the Garvies Point project, said of the structures rising rapidly off the
waterfront during a tour of the 56-acre site, as he pointed the van toward a sliver of a
creek lined with sailboats and motorboats. “It’s going to be just beautiful.”
Garvies Point and a sister project are taking shape fast, and they continue to generate
both enthusiasm and criticism from residents and a city councilwoman, Marsha
Silverman, who has waged a long battle against what she calls the “absurd” tax
breaks RXR has received. She has also expressed reservations about the depths of
environmental cleanups at Garvies Point.
Uniondale-based RXR is building not only Garvies Point, but about half a mile away,
another project called Village Square, 146 market-rate rental apartments spread
over 16,500 square feet of retail space in the heart of
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CHARITY
CORNER OFFICE SHAKERS
WHOLLY MOLI EVENTS
PRESS BUSINESS
QUESTIONS LINGER ABOUT GARVIES POINT DEVELOPMENT IN GLEN COVE
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