4 years after Henry Schein left a Melville workplace constructing within the mud, a developer is getting ready to come back in and provides it a facelift.
B2K Improvement is in contract to buy the property at 80 Baylis Highway from The We’re Group, Newsday reported. The acquisition value within the settlement, first reported by the Lengthy Island Enterprise Information, wasn’t disclosed.
Jericho-based B2K plans to benefit from the native overlay district to redevelop the 11-acre parcel right into a mixed-use advanced. However the firm has but to resolve what one of the best use is for the property, in response to an organization spokesperson; potentialities embody for-sale housing, rental housing and an assisted dwelling facility.
B2K had not submitted an utility to the City of Huntington’s planning division as of Friday.
Henry Schein, a medical provide distributor and considered one of Lengthy Island’s largest public corporations, began moving out of the 180,000-square-foot constructing at 80 Baylis Highway in 2022. The corporate consolidated at 135 Duryea Highway, which spans 105,000 sq. ft.
The Melville City Middle Overlay District was created in December 2024, pursuant to the aim of a walkable downtown. In April, Huntington’s city board approved Bethpage developer Metal Equities’ plan for 110 condominium models and 290 residences on 17 acres of a light-industrial space throughout the district.
Terwilliger & Bartone can be planning a mixed-use improvement consisting of 168 luxurious leases and for-sale residences, 20 p.c of which will likely be put aside for workforce housing, in addition to 20,000 sq. ft of retail house. The city board held a listening to for that venture this month.
B2K can be planning a venture on the 49-acre Flowerfield Fairgrounds in St. James, Suffolk County, that would come with medical workplaces, an assisted dwelling facility and a lodge. That proposal faces opposition from native residents and officers, together with Suffolk Legis. Steven Englebright, over environmental considerations like elevated flooding.
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