Lynbrook Seeking Developers for Feather Building

The Lynbrook village board is still trying to find a developer to revitalize the Mangrove Feather building on Broadway, a multistory warehouse that has suffered on-and-off vacancies for nearly a decade. The building is currently boarded up, and has many broken windows.
   
Village officials say they would like to see the property — located just north of the Lynbrook train station — redeveloped into residential units. Lynbrook Mayor Brian Curran said he was leaning toward loft condominiums.
   
"It's a great redevelopment project," Curran said. "The village is playing an active role, finding developers for the current owner and bringing them to him to effectuate a sale of the property for condominiums."
   
A developer has not yet been selected.
   
The Broadway eyesore is a similar situation to one the village faces on Atlantic Avenue, where a strip of vacant stores below the railroad trestle has had a negative effect on other businesses in the area. Both Broadway and Atlantic Avenue are otherwise bustling business districts.

Curran, who is running for Assembly in November, said he would like to get the Mangrove Feather project moving in the right direction before the election.
   
"There's a model that I believe in for local downtowns," he said. "The model that is tested and proven to succeed is you surround your downtown with things that provide foot traffic — things like condominiums, residential units, office spaces — things like that so they can fuel your downtown businesses."