Post demolition photos, the Greenport alternative

Choose now:  Diminish or enhance

 the irreplaceable community resource

 of the Town Square park.

Area behind fencing to left will either be a five story Petrocelli 

hotel / condo  or a wider open green from East Main Street 

to the amphitheater and the river

The Suffolk Theater will either be overshadowed by Petrocelli's 80 

room luxury hotel  +  condos or the focal point of an open town square

The historic buildings of the East End Arts Council will either

be hidden behind Petrocelli's box like hotel / condo

 or be the visible east side of the open town square

The Petrocelli hotel / condo will take ten feet beyond the not yet fully

 demolished wall and relocate a marginalized East End Arts Council

The attractive East End Arts Council building that could

 become the border of the Town Square park if the hotel

 project is canceled and a Mitchell Park style lawn replaces it.

To the right is the hotel / condo box that Petrocelli wants to build

and profit from in the currently public owned town square park.

 

The alternative: Mitchell Park*, Greenport

before...

...after

Riverhead can do as well as Greenport!

Tell the Town Board and new Supervisor Jerry Halpin that 

Petrocelli's five story luxury hotel / condo must be stopped 

and not allowed to dominate and exploit the town square park.   townclerk@townofriverheadny.gov    

For background about this controversial project, click here 

 https://saveepcal.blogspot.com/2025/08/submissions-on-q-e-for-petrocelli.html

*  Before its redevelopment into Mitchell Park, the site was a vacant and blighted waterfront lot that had been empty since a fire destroyed Mitchell's Restaurant, Bar and Grill in 1978.  Mitchell's was a popular local landmark restaurant that had opened in an old automobile shop in 1941 and grew to include a large bar and marina. 

After the fire, the property sat unoccupied for over 15 years, sometimes described as a "rotting cancer" in the middle of downtown Greenport, as various private development plans failed. The Village of Greenport acquired the property in 1996 and, after a design competition, began the process of turning it into the public space that opened as Mitchell Park in June 2001, with the carousel installed shortly after.

https://suffolktimes.archive.timesreview.com/2015/09/real-estate-from-mitchell-park-to-the-barclays-center/#