Back to the New York Islanders Newsfeed

New York Islanders: Belmont project still on track despite extended review

As everyone close to the New York Islanders‘ Belmont arena project has continued to reiterate, everything is still perfectly on track.

Final environmental impact statement at Belmont due "hopefully" by end of second quarter, ESD official said at board of director meeting this morning. Isles had hoped to break ground in May or June, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said recently. So we'll see………..

— Jim Baumbach (@jimbaumbach) February 21, 2019

New York Arena Partners (NYAP) (comprised of the Oak View Group, Sterling Equities, and Scott Malkin Group) announced that they extended the period for public comment through March 1, but it was a contract-extension which caused rumblings of a delay to the project to begin circulating.