Proposed Project
Slate Announced 11/8
Huntington Station DRI Local Planning Committee has recommended 10 projects to be considered for the State’s DRI award.
Huntington Station will receive $10 million in funding as the Long Island region winners of the sixth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI).
The DRI annually provides a $10 million award to one community in each of the State’s ten Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) regions. Applicants must demonstrate their readiness and capacity to identify and implement a slate of synergistic projects that collectively achieve a community-based vision for the downtown. The REDCs review applications and nominate winners to the DOS for final review and approval.
Announcements & Upcoming Meetings
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Local Planning Committee Meeting #6
Wed. Nov. 8
9-11 AM
Huntington Station Library
1335 New York Avenue
Huntington Station, NY 11746At the Local Planning Committee (LPC) Meeting, the LPC will provide final input on the draft DRI Plan.
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Proposed Project Slate Announced
The Local Planning Committee has recommended 10 Proposed Projects for funding. NYS will announce the final DRI awards in Winter-Spring 2024.
Welcome to Huntington Station
Huntington Station's DRI area focuses on the walkable downtown Huntington Station neighborhood immediately surrounding the LIRR Station and continuing south along the New York Avenue corridor. With the pending completion of the East Side Access project, this area is beginning to undergo commercial revitalization that will ultimately serve as a major commercial and social attraction to the community. Huntington Station seeks to re-energize its urban core and attract new opportunities to build on its vibrant, diverse and walkable downtown. Huntington Station's vision is to transform the downtown by developing key sites for mixed-use projects, burying and/or relocating utilities and overhead wires along the New York Avenue corridor, expanding broadband, creating a centralized park or public gathering space, implementing a business façade program and making streetscape and transportation improvements.
About the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI)
The Downtown Revitalization Initiative launched in 2016 to accelerate and expand the revitalization of downtowns and neighborhoods in all ten regions of the state to serve as centers of activity and catalysts for investment. Led by the Department of State, the initiative represents an unprecedented and innovative plan-to-act strategy that couples strategic planning with immediate implementation, bringing with it an interagency team of state experts to support local government capacity in realizing their community's vision.
The initiative is headed by New York State Department of State. Communities receive support from private sector experts and a team of state agency staff led by the Department of State in close partnership with Empire State Development, and state Homes and Community Renewal.
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