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Green Acres plan for major redevelopment Rather than a department store, landscaped open spaces, parking lots, and dining terraces are expected to stand in the To an older generation of Green Acres shoppers, it’s offi- place of the 150,000-square-foot bu i l d i n g , wh i ch cially the end of an shoppers from e r a . T h e Va l l e y Franklin Square Stream mall plans and Elmont can to tear down its look forward to. vacant Sears The developers will department store also be razing the a n d S e a r s Au t o f o r m e r store as it under116,000-square-foot goes its latest redeKohl’s department velopment. store to make way One of the mall’s for a large spread original anchor of retail stores and department stores, restaurants with Sears has steadily outside entrances. fallen out of The redevelopdemand with cusment plans were tomers, struggling shared with a to survive until it packed crowd of finally declared eager brokers and bankruptcy in 2018. financial heads It officially shutfrom the Commertered its doors at cial Industrial Brothe mall in 2021 ke r s S o c i e t y o f a f t e r n e a rl y 4 0 ERIC BUNYAN Long Island on years of operation. Macerich Jan. 18 at the forN o w, i n t h e representative mer Kohl’s space. hands of the Macerich Co., the California-based real estate invest- Accessible, comfortable, spament trust that bought the mall cious The redevelopment could be in 2013, new life is being breathed into the languishing described as something of a remains of the empty property.
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Tiffany Wong, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School, is a captain of the cheerleading team. She will be honored at the Nassau BOCES Education Partners Awards Gala on May 7 for her community service in Elmont.
Elmont’s Tiffany Wong to be honored for community service By NIColE WAGNER nwagner@liherald.com
Tiffany Wong, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School, goes above and beyond with her community service in Elmont. The 17-year-old tutors seventh-, eighthand ninth-grade math students, gives blood and encourages others to become blood donors, and takes stray cats to the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter to be spayed and neutered before they are adopted. Wong considers her role as a tutor a “great privilege.” One pre-algebra student she worked with was struggling, but Wong was happy to help her master long division. Once she got the basics down, Wong said, it
all clicked. “I wanted to make sure that she knew the basics, and once she got the basics down, using the calculator would be very easy for her later on,” Wong said. “So I was really proud of her to reach that light bulb moment of understanding and work from there.” As for her blood-donation advocacy, Wong is quick to tell people that donating a pint of blood can save up to three lives. “That’s something that I’ve always kept in the back of my head whenever I go in” to donate, she said. She first donated blood last year, when she turned 16, after rushing home to have her mother sign a permission slip to donate CONTiNuEd ON PAGE 5
e know that we need to create an environment that is accessible, where you can park, and where the customer feels comfortable entering and exiting the property.
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