A major redevelopment proposal for a corporate office corridor in Melville will go before the public later this month.
The Huntington Town Board has scheduled a public hearing for Thursday, March 19 at 6 p.m. at Town Hall on a proposal from Steel 75 Maxess, LLC to build a mixed-use development at 75 Maxess Road as part of the town’s Melville Town Center initiative.
Plans for the project — known as Melville Crossing — call for a residential and retail complex on a roughly 16-acre site currently occupied by an aging office building and large parking areas. The development would include a mix of apartments, condominiums and live-work units, along with ground-floor retail space and shared amenities.
According to plans submitted to the town, the proposal includes 290 rental apartments, 110 condominium units and 40 live-work units. The development would also feature more than 37,000 square feet of retail space and about 6,300 square feet of clubhouse and amenity space.
Renderings on the project website show multiple buildings arranged around pedestrian walkways, plazas and green space, designed to create a walkable, village-style environment within the corporate office corridor.
The proposal is expected to be among the first development applications considered under Huntington’s Melville Town Center Overlay District, a zoning framework adopted to encourage redevelopment of aging office parks with housing, retail and other mixed uses, according to a Newsday report.
Huntington Town Supervisor Ed Smyth told Newsday last month that the town believes the Melville Town Center concept will help modernize the corridor and create new housing opportunities while revitalizing aging commercial properties.
— rendering/melvillecrossing.com
