The public will get its first look this morning at long-anticipated plans for the Petrocelli hotel proposed for the Riverhead town square.
Riverhead Town Board members are expected to review plans for a 94-room hotel filed by J. Petrocelli Riverhead Town Square LLC at today’s work session.
The application calls for construction of a five-story, 69,738-square-foot hotel building at 117–127 E. Main St., adjacent to the planned town square and East End Arts campus.See plans below.
Plans submitted to the town show the project would include a 116-seat restaurant with bar and outdoor terrace overlooking the riverfront, a coffee shop, nearly 2,900 square feet of retail space, hotel lounge and fitness facilities and 94 guest rooms, including 14 fifth-floor suites with balconies or terraces.
The “Peconic River Hotel” proposal replaces an earlier concept reviewed during the town’s downtown revitalization environmental review process that included 76 hotel rooms and 12 condominium units.
The plan represents one of the most significant vertical development projects tied to the town’s broader downtown redevelopment initiative, which includes construction of a new public town square, flood mitigation improvements and a planned parking garage.
Planning department staff and the town’s environmental consultant identified several infrastructure and operational issues that remain under review as the project moves into the formal site plan and special permit approval process, according to reports posted online with the work session agenda.See reports below.
Among the most significant are questions involving sewer and water system capacity.
The town’s environmental consultant, Jeffrey Seeman, said in a May 11 consistency review that formal letters of availability are still required from both the Riverhead Water District and Riverhead Sewer District before site plan approval can be granted.
According to the application materials, which are posted on the town’s website with the work session agenda andembedded below, the hotel is projected to require approximately 20,000 gallons of potable water daily and generate about 16,568 gallons of wastewater flow per day.
Source: RiverheadLOCAL
