New Jersey developers Robert Weiss and Efrem Gerszberg have been battling local towns for almost a decade to build on the roughly 117-acre property that used to be the Woodmere Country Club in the town of Hempstead in Nassau County. The current proposal was pitched last year as a compromise to settle a costly ongoing court battle between the developers and the villages of Woodsburgh, Lawrence and Woodmere, which are all in the town of Hempstead. The legal war over the property has involved 10 lawsuits — eight in state court and two in federal — and left taxpayers on the hook for a mountain of lawyers’ and other fees.
Author: Brandon Cruz
Published at: 2025-07-06 19:52:17
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