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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: R&D Campus Plan Controversy Continues

STONY BROOK, NY-A plan by the state university based here to construct a research and development park is continuing to be controversial as a former county executive calls the plan, "flawed, self-serving and created through a process that is rife with conflict of interest."

By Barbara Jarvie | Updated on June 23, 2004

STONY BROOK, NY-The State University of New York at Stony Brook’s proposal to develop a research and development campus on 246 acres it would acquire through purchase or eminent domain is continuing to generate controversy. A Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study for the 314-acre site known as Flowerfield was presented at a public hearing. Under the plan, the current owner of the entire site, Gyrodyne Co. of America Inc., would retain the remaining 68 acres. Former Suffolk County executive John V. N. Klein, who is counsel to Gyrodyne, says the DGEIS is “flawed, self-serving and created through a process that is rife with conflict of interest.”

In response, a SUNY Stony Brook spokesperson did not address Klein’s comments and tells GlobeSt.com, the university was “pleased to have had the opportunity to explain the importance of the research and development park to the community and Long Island, and the opportunity to answer their questions.”

The university, one of Long Island largest employers, plans to develop the site as the Stony Brook University Research and Development Campus. The first building to be completed would be the approximately 123,000-sf Center for Excellence in Wireless Information Technology, which would be finished in 2007. Following that construction, the master plan calls for nine additional research and development buildings that would be constructed over a 10-year period. The total for the project site would be approximately 830,000 sf. Stony Brook also plans to construct a dedicated roadway providing vehicular access to the campus via three existing entrances.

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