First public hearings set on proposed $500M redevelopment of Mastic Beach downtown
"The objective is to write a new, positive chapter in the history of Mastic Beach [and] to turn vagrancy and vacancy into vibrancy," Brookhaven Supervisor Dan Panico said on Aug. 18 in a telephone interview. "Mastic Beach and the good people who reside there deserve a downtown that they can be proud of."