Bold new vision unveiled for Nassau Hub transformation.

Nassau County Executive, Tom Suozzi, recently unveiled his vision for New Suburbia at Nassau Centre, a bold new vision planned and designed by Fox & Fowle Architects.

In collaboration with The STV Group, Inc., the vision addresses the need for planned development within a three square mile area in the center of Nassau County, Long Island, known as the "Nassau Hub".

The plan begins with a new transportation system that will link existing communities, recreational areas, and business centers with the hub. (Transit options include: bus rapid transit, light rail transit and automated guideway transit.) Building off of the transportation improvements, the plan suggests new office buildings, new sports entertainment and tourism venues, a zoo at Eisenhower Park, college housing in Hempstead Village, improving Museum Row at Mitchel Field, a greenbelt "emerald ribbon" of pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths connecting existing parks and preserves, and a new transit boulevard from EAB Plaza to Roosevelt Field Mall.

"Currently, our residents believe we are overdeveloped, over-trafficked, under-planned and over taxed--and, they are right and for too long, developers have driven development and residents are fearful that each new development takes from us another piece of our suburban serenity," said Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi. "We need a new vision for the future. A vision that protects our suburban dream, preserve our quality of life and expands our tax base. I call the vision New Suburbia," and the "Nassau Hub," disjointed for 25 years, will become the Nassau Centre," added Suozzi.

"It takes a long time for redevelopment to happen suddenly," says Mark E. Strauss, Director of Planning at Fox & Fowle Architects, and VP/President Elect of the New York Chapter of the AIA. "This should not be viewed as a finished plan but as a framework for redevelopment, which may take fifty years to be realized."