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Like us on Facebook Freeport Memorial Library www.freeportbaldwinleader.com Freeport '© Kxaisfta @©mfflHii% Plaza West Development moving forward by Laura Schofer New development along Freeport's . Sunrise Highway corridor may'soon be a reality. Last month the Village of Freeport - received_• six proposals--to develop the; Plaza West'parcel:;, including the Meadow Brook: bank, building 'and adjacent -lot. as, - well aS the- Church Street triangle in .the heart of Freeport. : • The proposals' were submitted by Trinity Financial Inc. of Boston; Mill Creek of Wilton Connecticut; Conifer of Rochester.;.; _ Brisa Builders Corp of Brooklyn; Georgia' Green, of Jericho .. and Renaissance. Downtown of Plainview. As Four of the six bids mix residential and commercial development The other two include a hotel development, said Robert McLaughlin from Freeport's Office of Community Development, but he did not eleborate further on any of the bids. - The bids will be reviewed by Freeport's Village Board of Trustees and the Board of the Freeport Community Development Agency, and \a decision will be made by Resolution .of bot^i bodies,\ explained Mr. -McLaughlin: \A^idecj.sion .could,me made .withuvtw-'\''\\~\\ '*~\' \ ' : Development ';at?':thjs^slte ; hadsbSeir;; stymied due to litigation that lasted seven . years and cost taxpayers over $1 million. It was settled last year and the village issued an RFP in the\ spring'. That RFP provided • the village with a $5.5 million offer but the mayor and. village board decided to reissue the RFP-and increase the offering's foot- - print to include the Church Street triangle property and Plaza West Road behind the property on Sunrise Highway. The six bids are the result of that second RFP that was due January 6.. mmmi\^-- J^k-'.ll photo by Mike Daly SHOOTING ON RANDALL AVENUE: A shooting took place on Randall Avenue in Freeport Tuesday afternoon, February 5. One man was injured. The street was closed to traffic for most of the afternoon. Village police had no comment. Senate passes flood insurance relief bill pageS Friends of Freeport return page 7 Power of Math to Raise Funds page 6 Mitzy goes To Westminster page 10 \We want to see a hotel there and want a mixed use for that property,\ said Mayor Kennedy in a December 19 interview with the Leader. . What remains unknown is the fate of the old Meadow Brook bank building. The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities placed the building on its 2013 list of endangered historic places. SPLIA advocates saving the building by making use of rehab tax credits and multi-modal high-density downtown revitalization incentives. MEADOW BROOK BUILDING: This his toric building- is part of the Plaza West development 'project under review by the village. Its fate remains unknown at this time. Pictured here is the building circa 1950. Constructed in 1929, it is \distinctly reminiscent of an Art Deco version of the Flatiron building and was designed by the Hoggs brothers (sever- al of their other bank buildings are on the National Register),\ SPLIA wrote, (photo courtesy of Freeport Memorial Library collection) At Home Cozying up to winter Pull-Out AN lid £IS SZTT