Forty Percent of New Homes on Former Army Base Sold

About 40 percent of the seventy-nine new homes that are set to be built on the former U.S. Army base in North Bellmore have been sold through pre-sales, according to an article in Newsday. 

At a recent North Bellmore Civic Association meeting, Michael Dubb, founder of the Beechwood Organization, said that the homes are in "tremendous demand." 

"It is a beautiful thing when you see young couples excited to move into this community,"  he said. 

The homes will include four to five bedrooms, two car garages, full basements and two and a half bathrooms.

Dubb said that the houses, which will have a price range of $600,000 and above, started to be built in July.

Construction of all the homes will take 18 to 24 months to complete and the first set of residents will move in around spring 2014.

The military base, once known as the Bellmore Logistics Facility, was used by the Army to repair heavy equipment and vehicles. Built during World War II, the facility was shuttered by the federal government in 1994.

Buildings that remained on the property were demolished about five years ago after it was purchased by the former owner KABRO Associates, a commercial real estate developer.

Karbo initially wanted to build market-rate senior housing.
 
In 1996, Habitat for Humanity of Nassau County proposed that 20 affordable houses be erected on the property. 

"We got a great deal of opposition," Kay McKiernan, president of Habitat for Humanity of Nassau County said. 

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