4 years after Henry Schein left a Melville workplace constructing within the mud, a developer is getting ready to return in and provides it a facelift.
B2K Growth is in contract to buy the property at 80 Baylis Highway from The We’re Group, Newsday reported. The acquisition value within the settlement, first reported by the Lengthy Island Enterprise Information, wasn’t disclosed.
Jericho-based B2K plans to benefit from the native overlay district to redevelop the 11-acre parcel right into a mixed-use advanced. However the firm has but to determine what one of the best use is for the property, in line with an organization spokesperson; prospects embrace for-sale housing, rental housing and an assisted residing facility.
B2K had not submitted an utility to the City of Huntington’s planning division as of Friday.
Henry Schein, a medical provide distributor and considered one of Lengthy Island’s largest public firms, began moving out of the 180,000-square-foot constructing at 80 Baylis Highway in 2022. The corporate consolidated at 135 Duryea Highway, which spans 105,000 sq. ft.
The Melville City Middle Overlay District was created in December 2024, pursuant to the purpose of a walkable downtown. In April, Huntington’s city board approved Bethpage developer Metal Equities’ plan for 110 condominium models and 290 residences on 17 acres of a light-industrial space inside the district.
Terwilliger & Bartone can be planning a mixed-use growth consisting of 168 luxurious leases and for-sale residences, 20 % of which will likely be put aside for workforce housing, in addition to 20,000 sq. ft of retail area. The city board held a listening to for that mission this month.
B2K can be planning a mission on the 49-acre Flowerfield Fairgrounds in St. James, Suffolk County, that would come with medical places of work, an assisted residing facility and a lodge. That proposal faces opposition from native residents and officers, together with Suffolk Legis. Steven Englebright, over environmental considerations like elevated flooding.
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