This is kind of a very, very random thought, but looking at a map, there is still some good open land around the university that it can develop should it ever want to expand. Not that it should, im just wondering whether the U has purchased open plots, for example, when it purchased Flowerfield. We all know the Southampton thing never really caught on as its too far away. Geography matters. This is why building LaValle at south P would’ve been a disaster.
I remember once I ventured a few miles west to the Kings Park Psychiatric Center. It’s empty, owned by the state, and even though its kind of eerie, it looks like some nice buildings that aren’t getting any use. There’s some open land. And its about 4 miles west of the U and there’s over 100 buildings (some in disrepair). I wonder if they’ve ever made a move for it and if so, what they could do with it. Random, I know.
Then I did some reading and saw that numerous developers made attempts to purchase it, but the obstacles are asbestos, unstable foundations, and the fact that it supplied its own power might have left contaminants. So it looks like its too expensive to clean up and some of the land converted to the nissequogue park 20 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park_Psychiatric_Center