Dental Office Yields Space to Developer

A dental office that opened in Huntington Station with a ribbon-cutting has closed and given up the space to a development company.

Town spokesman A.J. Carter said that Dr. Vikas Arora_decided to focus on his practice at other locations after a year in the Huntington Enrichment Center building on New York Avenue.

The ground-floor space is now being renovated for use by Renaissance Downtowns LLC, which has been designated as the master developer for the next phase of Huntington Station’s revitalization.

At the grand opening of the dental office in November 2010, the town said Arora would provide care to residents, including some free screenings for children, when the practice opened in January 2011.

Town Supervisor Frank Petrone and Town Board member Susan Berland attended the 2010 ribbon-cutting, which was described as another step in the town's revitalization plan for Huntington Station.

Councilman Mark Mayoka had welcomed the dental office at the time. "This office makes sense from both a medical perspective and an economic one. This office will also bring income to the town in the form of rent," Mayoka had said.