New $20M apartment project planned for Kings Park

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A new $20 million apartment development is planned to replace a long-vacant restaurant building in Kings Park. 

Farmingdale-based developer Terwilliger & Bartone Properties has proposed to build a 61,356-square-foot building that will have 50 apartments on the site of a shuttered restaurant at 30 Indian Head Road in the Tanzi Plaza shopping center. The development site is located just steps away from the Kings Park Long Island Rail Road station. 

The rental complex, to be called Cornerstone Kings Park, will bring six studio apartments, 35 one-bedroom apartments and nine two-bedroom apartments. Rents have not been set, however, five of the apartments will be designated as affordable and offered at reduced rates. 

Amenities will include a clubroom, fitness center, virtual entry system, elevator and trash valet service. 

Islandia-based GRCH Architecture is designing the project, and its civil engineer is Huntington-based R&M Engineering. 

The project, the first pitched for Kings Park’s ongoing revitalization effort, was conceived in 2018 when the Town of Smithtown completed a comprehensive plan for Kings Park’s downtown following community visioning sessions led by the Kings Park Chamber of Commerce, the Kings Park Civic Association and Vision Long Island. But the development wouldn’t have been possible without Suffolk County’s expansion of the Kings Park sewer system that is currently underway. 

The apartment plan still needs to go through the town’s approvals process. The developer will be holding an open house on the project from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, at VFW Post 5796 at 40 Church St. in Kings Park. 

“We’re very excited. This has been a long time coming for Kings Park,” said Anthony Bartone, a principal of Terwilliger & Bartone Properties. “We’re proud to be the first project in the ongoing revitalization of Kings Park’s downtown.”