The repaving of the Village of Great Neck Plaza’s Maple Drive parking lot got the go ahead Wednesday when trustees unanimously voted to approve a bid from Bohemia-based contracting company J. Anthony Enterprises.
“I am prepared that we can move forward and award this to them,” Village of Great Neck Plaza Mayor Jean Celender said. “I feel comfortable in doing so.”
Celender said J. Anthony Enterprises had submitted the lowest bid.
J. Anthony Enterprises was one of nine companies to submit bids to the village at an early February bidder’s conference, she said.
Celender said engineering firm TECTONIC was hired by the village to make a recommendation on all submitted bids.
“They have made a recommendation that we reward to the lowest bidder and believes that it’s a good contractor,” she said. “They meet the requirements and they checked out their references.”
While the village received a $675,000 state grant for the project, Celender said, the village will have to pay $200,000 to purchase LED lights and new Muni-Meter systems.
She said she wants work to begin by the beginning of April, but weather concerns may push the beginning of construction back.
Celender said she estimates construction will take between three and four months, lasting until the end of summer.
“I don’t think it will go as long as November,” she said. “But it will probably be around September-ish when they finish.”
Also at the meeting, the board adjourned discussion on an application for a conditional-use permit by the owner of the Shop Delight supermarket to operate a butcher shop three stores down on Welwyn Road.
Village Attorney Richard Gabriele said Paul Bloom, the attorney representing Shop Delight owner Edward Yakupov, requested the adjournment.
“For a variety of reasons, we agreed to put it over to the next meeting in March,” Gabriele said.
At the Feb. 3 meeting, Gabriele asked Bloom to return to the board with answers addressing trustees’ concerns regarding a comparison of ownership between the proposed butcher shop and Shop Delight, food delivery information including frequency of deliveries, identity of deliverer, what they deliver, delivery times and size of trucks and if Yakupov would fund a code enforcement officer either through the store or through the village.
Trustees have voiced concerns about the proposed butcher shop relating to safety and code violations.
The application was adjourned to the next board meeting on March 16.
