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From newsday.com

Opening the door to the biggest recreational project ever proposed on Long Island, Riverhead officials have picked the firm to build a huge theme park and resort featuring a 350-foot indoor ski mountain that could be seen for miles.

The project would transform 755 acres, one of the last remaining large vacant parcels in downstate New York.

Riverhead's town board, hoping to lure millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tourists, voted 4-1 to start negotiations with Riverhead Resorts to build the theme park, including a water park and sports complex, in Calverton.

The $155 million pricetag on the land would be enough "to let us retire all of our town debt and still have $100 million bucks in the bank from this one deal," Supervisor Philip Cardinale said.

Cardinale said the project would have an immediate fiscal impact, significantly reducing taxes by providing a steady annual revenue stream of $10 million and swelling Riverhead's tax base.

"They will have 3.8 million square feet of floor area ... our assessor estimates that could be 10 percent of our town's tax base," he said.

Not everyone was so confident. Town Councilman Ed Densieski, the sole vote against it, said he thought the proposed resort was overly ambitious and would never be built.

"The town board is making a big mistake," Densieski said, saying the competing developer had offered a more realistic proposal, an auto racing center.

The board picked Riverhead Resorts' plan to buy and develop 755 acres of vacant town-owned land. Riverhead Resorts expects to spend between $1 billion and $1.5 billion over the next decade to construct a park that will also feature a snowboarding center, spa, wilderness resort and camping area.

There will also be a conference center with a 100,000 square-foot exposition hall for product and trade shows and conferences, 2,200 hotel rooms and 2,000 timeshare units.

The project will stand where Grumman Aerospace used to assemble and test F-14 jet fighters. That runway will be torn out and some of the pine woods that surround it leveled.

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Great. There aren't enough schnooks on the Long Island Expressway screwing up my ride home. Now they want more. First it was the turds in their Bentleys and Ferraris heading out to the Hamptons. Now it'll be cousin Clem and the youngins fixin to go to the 'musement park. Wonderful.

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Great. There aren't enough schnooks on the Long Island Expressway screwing up my ride home. Now they want more. First it was the turds in their Bentleys and Ferraris heading out to the Hamptons. Now it'll be cousin Clem and the youngins fixin to go to the 'musement park. Wonderful.

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Someone done stoled my wheels.

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