Bids Come in to Redevelop LI Arena

UNIONDALE, NY-Responding to an RFP from Nassau County to reinvent the 40-year-old Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum here, four proposals have been submitted, according to published reports. The RFP is in line with the strategic reuse plan developed for the county by Forest City Ratner Cos.‘ Bruce Ratner, whom Newsday identified on Wednesday as one of the bidders.

Newsday reported that Ratner, who on Wednesday stepped down as CEO of FCRC while remaining chairman, told a sports facilities conference in Brooklyn that he had submitted a bid to redevelop the Nassau Coliseum with an “iconic design” that would “create a Nassau like never before.” The developer of Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which lured the Islanders hockey franchise away from the coliseum as of 2015, reportedly said he had put together an “unprecedented team” to bid on the RFP.