By Samuel Glasser
The Village of Great Neck Board of Trustees on Tuesday night approved further modifications to the proposed redevelopment of the Millbrook Court garden apartment complex, including the elimination of a third floor and removing underground parking.
The 240-250 Middle Neck Road project initially received approval in August 2018 and was amended in 2019 and 2022.
The garden apartment complex now has 119 units. The plans call for the demolishing of 34 units and the construction of 101 new apartments, giving the completed complex 186 apartments.
The previous iteration would have added a third story to the remaining 1948 vintage garden apartments and proposed three new buildings: two of four stories and a two-story amenity building.
The plans also included an underground automated parking system.
The revisions accepted at the board’s regular monthly meeting eliminate the third floor for the original structures and connect one of the proposed four-story buildings to the amenity building, now reduced to three floors. The other four-story building is unchanged. The underground parking system was dropped.
In addition, the developer, Northshore Millbrook LLC, proposes to build nine individual rooftop amenity areas and increase the height of the buildings by three feet.
Millbrook wants to change its waiver for the required number of parking spots for the third time, this time to 101, down from a high of 144. The new plans also include rush-hour shuttle bus service to and from the Long Island Rail Road station.
Jason Schlesinger, the managing member of Northshore Millbrook, told the board, “we are diligently working” on beginning construction despite several challenges.
“Tough interest rate environment. Difficult construction cost environment. We are highly motivated and hope to start in the next number of months,” he said.
He said that for this to happen he needed the board to grant approval to the latest iteration of the project.
In other business, the board granted a permit for the Don Joe auto body shop at 247 East Shore Road to operate a paint spray booth.
The board also agreed to purchase four new garbage trucks for approximately $1.5 million to replace vehicles that are as much as 20 years old. The new fleet is expected to be delivered by spring or summer of 2025.
The board appointed Grace Lin as deputy treasurer from June 17 to June 30 to fill the unexpired term of Denise Mordente. She will then begin a one-year term on July 1. Mordente left Great Neck to take the position of village clerk treasurer for Westhampton Beach.
The village will hold its annual Music Festival and Street Fair on Saturday, June 8, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The event will be held at the Village Green, Middle Neck Road and Beach Road, and along Middle Neck Road from Hicks Lane to Baker Hill Road.
The bands will be Get Poison’d, a tribute to Poison, and Side Car Band, a tribute to The Cars, performing on Saturday evening.
Sunday’s performances starting at noon will be 1 Wild Night, a tribute to Bon Jovi; New Kindred Soul, playing hits from the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s; New York’s Finest, a tribute to Sting and The Police; and The Gathering Gloom, a tribute to The Cure.
