Governor George Pataki cited Dowling's groundbreaking ceremony for The National Aviation and Transportation Center Residential Village as "just the beginning" of a new era of "positive economic developments on Long Island."
"This facility (the residential village in the Town of Brookhaven) will fit right in with the rest of The NAT Center as it represents the best of what's yet to come," Governor Pataki said. "The young people studying here and the high-tech manufacturing that will take place here at The NAT Center and at Transtech Park are just the beginning of an economic future that will be unparalleled and unprecedented for Long Island and the rest of the country as well."
Attending the groundbreaking were New York State Senator Caesar Trunzo (3rd Senate District); Dowling College President Dr. Victor P. Meskill; and Dowling College Trustees Robert Mitchell of StorageMaster; Daniel Lehner of Lehner International, Inc.; community leader/volunteer Anne Ellis; Carl Klepper of Fenley & Nicol Environmental, Inc.; Gerald Curtin of Statewide Roofing, Inc.; distribution consultant Arnold Sadowsky and Gordon Corlew of Engineering & Production AIL Systems, Inc.
The Village, a unique 276-bed complex fashioned after the Marriott's Resident Inn concept, will have the comforts of home. The apartment-style campus, which is being built, financed and operated by professional hotel managers, is due to open this spring.
Michele Colletta
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