All Entries Tagged With: "Scott Rechler"
EXCLUSIVE: Town Of Hempstead Reaction To Casino
I tracked down a ToH source who would give me a straight answer about yesterday’s Nassau County bombshell which ended up on the front page of Newsday. Source: “No conspiracy here, BD. She found out same as you did. She was caught off-guard.” Was she pissed? After all, the Town of Hempstead put a lot [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Questioning the Status Of The Lighthouse Project
(This is not an April Fools) April 1st, 2010 What began with a song and greeting: “Meet Me at the Lighthouse!”, which even blared from a holiday card they sent us at the end of 2008, has turned into a whimper. As the lights have gone dark from some shake-up, more is coming clear… The [...]
RUMOR: Charles Wang Looking to Sell?
Funny thing happened on last night’s HNIC telecast…they had a quick blurb on that Charles Wang was fed-up with the Lighthouse situation and was looking to sell the team. Funny…in that all the way back in Feb 09 I had a piece on just that scenario as Charles Wang was meeting one potential buyer at [...]
THE LIGHTHOUSE BRAWL? After Thursday It Was Every Which Way You Can But Loose, Until . . .
One would think that at the start of the Islanders season we’d actually talking about hockey. Sadly, we are not. As what has been made clear, weeks even before the hearing, was a polarization of two sides. One: a town board who likes to do things their way. Albeit, the criticism is that this way [...]
NY ISLES LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT GETS LEASE FROM COUNTY: Video From the Press Conference
Today, I went over to Mineola to be there for when Tom Suozzi announced that he and the Lighthouse Project’s Charles Wang and Scott Rechler came to a lease agreement. I expected the usual fare, with them putting the pressure onto the Town of Hempstead as the “certainty” deadline quickly approaches a mere few days [...]
TOWN BOARD WANTS LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT SMALLER: ToH Source Speaks to HockeyIndependent
According to a highly placed source in the Town of Hempstead, the Lighthouse Project will have to scale the project down. Per the source, the town board is not comfortable with the size nor scope of such a project. They would like Wang to do what many others who have projects do “like what Scott [...]