Soloviev’s North Fork plan causes local backlash

November 6, 2025 / no comments

Billionaire Stefan Soloviev’s latest North Fork play is testing how far the East End’s quieter half can bend before it breaks.  He wants to turn 372 acres of farmland straddling Cutchogue and Peconic into nearly 50 luxury homes, the Suffolk Times reported. The plan has triggered fierce backlash from locals worried the North Fork is going the way of the Hamptons. The Soloviev Group’s proposal, called the Colusa Conservation Subdivision, would carve 47 residential lots out of one of the region’s largest remaining farm tracts. Plans call for 18 bluff-top parcels overlooking Long Island Sound and 29 inland lots, while […]

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Hakimian, CW Realty plot rebuild from rubble of Innovation QNS

November 6, 2025 / no comments

Innovation QNS may be no more, but developers are still hopeful of squeezing housing projects out of the Astoria megaproject site. The Hakimian Organization and Cheskie Weisz’s CW Realty filed plans for projects at 35-17 42nd Street and 42-08 35th Avenue in the Queens neighborhood, Crain’s reported. The developers acquired the adjacent sites at the start of the year for $15.8 million. On 35th Avenue, the partners are planning a 13-story, 90,000-square-foot property with 99 residential units, ostensibly seeking to duck the 485x wage requirements that would kick in with the addition of one more unit to the development. The […]

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David Tabak purchases Gowanus site for $59M

November 6, 2025 / no comments

David Tabak appears to have found his next Brooklyn project, one likely to be less complex than the much-watched Brooklyn Yards development. Tabak acquired the development site at 563 Sackett Street in Gowanus for $58.5 million, the Commercial Observer reported. The 38,500-square-foot site traded for nearly $1,520 per square foot. The seller was the Mazzei family, who has owned the one-story garage on the site since 2005. Demolition permits for the garage have yet to be filed, but it could be nothing more than a matter of time. Tabak is already looking at a 12-story, 350-unit residential building at the […]

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