{"id":363268,"date":"2026-06-16T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:59:19","slug":"scaled-down-108m-long-beach-condo-plan-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363268\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaled down $108M Long Beach condo plan advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long-planned project to develop a waterfront condominium building in Long Beach<\/a> is finally moving ahead after a review from the Nassau County Planning Commission.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The\u00a0project from Manhattan-based 73rd Meridian Partners LLC, first pitched a decade\u00a0ago, has been scaled back significantly\u00a0since,\u00a0with the latest plan to\u00a0bring\u00a0106\u00a0condo\u00a0units\u00a0on\u00a0a 1.72-acre site at 530 West Broadway<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0$108 million\u00a0development would replace the long-shuttered Hebrew Academy of Long Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The developers, a partnership between Wittek Development<\/a> and\u00a0Sackman Enterprises<\/a>,\u00a0who\u00a0bought the Long Beach property for $13 million in 2017, had originally proposed a plan to build twin 14-story towers with 154\u00a0condo\u00a0units on the site.\u00a0After that plan was met with community opposition and pushback from city officials, the proposal was reduced\u00a0to include two 11-story towers with 126 units.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Further public input resulted in the latest\u00a0version of the project, which consists of two eight-story towers\u00a0with 106 units.\u00a0In the city\u2019s statement\u00a0of SEQR\u00a0findings, the comments said: \u201cThe proposed action will improve and revitalize the site, providing a more\u00a0appropriate land\u00a0use on this high-profile waterfront property<\/a> which has been vacant for many years.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Greg Kalnitsky, Long Beach corporation counsel, said the latest project revision is more palatable.\u00a0\u201cBased on what they submitted in 2017, what they have now is much more scaled down,\u201d\u00a0he told LIBN.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the newly amended plan, each tower\u00a0of the project\u00a0will\u00a0contain\u00a048\u00a0condo\u00a0units, with the entire development consisting of 16 one-bedroom units, 42 two-bedroom units, and 48 three-bedroom units.\u00a0
\n\"\"\"\"The development will bring 106 condo units to the blighted site at 530 West Broadway. \/ Courtesy of City of Long Beach\n<\/p>\n

A\u00a0central\u00a0two-story\u00a0structure\u00a0above the mezzanine level\u00a0connecting the two residential buildings will have\u00a0the development\u2019s amenities, including a 2,016-square-foot club room and caf\u00e9 with restrooms on the first floor; and a 2,092-square-foot fitness center,1,367-square-foot theater space, 566-square-foot\u00a0multipurpose room, and restrooms on the second floor, according to the City of Long Beach SEQR documents.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

A patio with outdoor swimming pool and seating areas, two dog-run spaces, and perimeter landscaping are planned for the exterior, and there will be a ground-level garage\u00a0parking\u00a0to accommodate\u00a0213\u00a0vehicles.\u00a0The project also includes a\u00a0covered public seating area\u00a0next\u00a0to\u00a0the boardwalk.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Nassau County Planning Commission, which rejected the original development proposal,\u00a0had no objection earlier this month to its\u00a0slimmed-down\u00a0plan, sending back to the city for a local determination\u00a0and final approval.\u00a0The\u00a0city accepted the developer\u2019s final environmental statement in\u00a0March\u00a0and the\u00a0project will\u00a0likely get\u00a0a public hearing<\/a> this summer.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long road,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Kurt Wittek, principal of Wittek Development. \u201cWe\u2019ve\u00a0been through many iterations in cooperating with the\u00a0city\u00a0and I think\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0close to being done.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-planned project to develop a waterfront condominium building in Long Beach is finally moving ahead after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[147579,147580,147581,131,133,132,147582,85642,147583,134644,147584],"class_list":["post-363268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-530-west-broadway","tag-73rd-meridian-partners","tag-condo-units","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-nassau-county-planning-commission","tag-public-hearing","tag-sackman-enterprises","tag-waterfront-property","tag-wittek-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}