Bayport Senior Housing Project Gets Green Light from Islip Town

Bayport will be home to a new senior citizen condominum complex now that the Islip Town Board unanimously approved a change of zone from industrial to residential at its recent meeting.

The housing project by the Northwind Group, on nearly 24 acres at the southeast corner of Sunrise Highway and Church Street, will feature 148 two-story units priced at about $400,000 and cost $40 million to build, according to a Newsday report. Twenty percent of the unit are to be deemed affordable housing units in the complex called Bayport Meadow Estates. Construction is scheduled to begin next March and the complex will feature a putting green, pool and clubhouse facility.

One of the builder's most recent projects has been Eastport Meadows, in Eastport, which has sold 85 percent of the units in its first phase. It's billed at Long Island's first historic condos designed for active adults 55 and older.

Northwind has also built condo projects in Port Jefferson, Setauket and Westbury.