Glen Cove Mayor to Speak on Downtown
Revitalization at C.W. Post's Turning 2000 Conference
The move to revitalize downtown public areas is a major trend
on Long Island. Thomas R. Suozzi, Mayor of the City of Glen Cove,
will give a first-hand account of such efforts when he speaks
on Saturday, October 16, 1999 at the Turning 2000 Millennial
Weekend at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
In his talk, "Downtown Revitalization: Glen Cove,"
Mayor Suozzi will trace the efforts to revitalize Glen Cove's
waterfront. The three-time mayor of Glen Cove has worked with
major federal, state and local officials to spearhead this project,
which makes the city a Brownsfields Showcase community and one
of only 16 towns in the nation to receive $1.4 million in funding
for such redevelopment. The ultimate goal of the revitalization
project is to make the Glen Cove waterfront a regional tourist
destination. Mayor Suozzi's talk is sponsored by the Long Island
University Institute for Sustainable Development.
Mayor Suozzi's environmental efforts are recognized throughout
the state and
nationwide. In 1997, he was the only elected official to receive
a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 Environmental
Quality Award. He has been named Environmentalist of the Year
by the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor and was honored by
the Long Island Progressive Coalition for Innovative Leadership
in Community Revitalization. In April 1998, the Long Island Sound
Watershed Alliance honored Mayor Suozzi for Excellence in Achieving
the Goals of the Long Island Sound Study. He is responsible for
the permanent closure of the Glen Cove incinerator.
Glen Cove's downtown revitalization will be just one topic
of discussion at Turning 2000, a conference on the new millennium
at the C.W. Post Campus on October 15, 16 and 17, 1999. The future
of evolution, the economy, literature, politics, health care,
the arts, and the environment will be up for debate and discussion
as well. More than 50 lectures, discussions, exhibits and theatrical
performances will probe issues of special importance to New Yorkers.
Mayor Suozzi will join such renowned speakers as Oliver Sacks,
Stephen Jay Gould, Harold Bloom, Anna Deavere Smith and Danny
Hillis. The conference will offer lectures and workshops for
the general public as well as elementary, secondary and college
students. Admission fees are: three-day full weekend pass: $100;
two-day pass: $80; one-day pass: $40. The C.W. Post Campus is
located on Northern Boulevard (Route 25A), Brookville, New York
(exit 41N off the LIE). For more information, call (516) 299-2700,
e-mail turn2000@cwpost.liu.edu or visit the web site at www.liu.edu/turn2000.
For more information call the C.W. Post
Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu or send
mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
