Town reschedules public hearing on $30M hotel plan for Tuesday

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The Town of Huntington has rescheduled a public hearing on a plan to turn a Cold Spring Harbor estate into a hotel and spa. 

Originally scheduled for February, later pushed back to March and then April, the public hearing will now be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11 at Huntington Town Hall. 

The owners of the sprawling estate at 473 Woodbury Road have been seeking a zoning designation that would allow the 23.75-acre property to become a 23-room hotel and spa, according to town documents. 

Known as RozeWood Farm, the Cold Spring Harbor estate property was purchased by 473 Woodbury LLC, an affiliate of Jan and Jude Rozenveld in August 2022 for $6.5 million. 

Hunebed Holdings LLC, another affiliate of the Rozenvelds, has applied to the town to have most of the site designated as a Historic Building Overlay District, which would allow it to operate as a hotel and hospitality business. 

The Rozenvelds, who have decades of experience in the hospitality industry, have been involved in the operations of hotels and resorts throughout the world. They are planning on extensive renovations to the Cold Spring Harbor property and create 23 hotel rooms, with 10 in the main house and the rest in the other buildings. The $30 million project, which is expected to take two years to complete, also calls for the construction of a building to house an enclosed swimming pool. 

Besides seeking the Historic Building Overlay District, the property owners are seeking historic designations from the town for the buildings on the property, including the manor house built for the Charles Bateson family in 1930 and the much smaller John Bumpstead House, which was built in 1835 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The Huntington Historic Preservation Commission has voted to recommend the entire property for historic designation, which is required to qualify for the overlay zoning. 

Under its current zoning, the property can be subdivided to accommodate 10 single-family homes on the property and its owners proposed to retain 4 acres of the site for a future subdivision of two lots. RozeWood Farm is the last remaining undivided estate off Woodbury Road, according to the town’s Department of Planning and Environment.