Newsday · Oct 21, 2018
From the archive: Sorry he bought the team
An artist's rendering of a renovated Nassau Coliseum that would have been part of the Lighthouse Project proposed by Islanders owner Charles Wang and RXR Realty chief Scott Rechler. Photo Credit: New York IslandersThis story originally appeared in Newsday on May 3, 2009.
Frustrated with the pace of his Lighthouse Project and sick of sinking more than $20 million a year to keep the Islanders afloat, Charles Wang has a case of buyer's remorse nine years after purchasing Long Island's hockey team.
"If I had the chance," Wang said, "I wouldn't do it again."