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The Neptune Avenue shopping center is set to be replaced with a 40-story tower.
Real estate developer Rubin Schron is the founder of Cammeby’s International.

Billionaire real estate tycoon Rubin Schron is in a battle with upset Coney Island residents that don’t want the 40-story tower planned to be constructed on Neptune Avenue

According to The Daily News, a longtime resident of Cone Island, Barbara Sherman said, “We have to fight this. It will destroy our whole quality of life here.”

Sherman’s home is across the street from the shopping center on Neptune Avenue, which is set to be destroyed and replaced with one of the highest building in South Brooklyn, and twice the size of the surrounding Trump Village housing complexes.

Building plans reported by YINBY, show the project including commercial businesses on the bottom three levels and 544 residential units above them. The tower would combine several properties that currently reside besides the F train’s Neptune Ave. Station.

The ground work has already started by Cammeby International. This process included letting the operators of businesses sitting with in the Trump VillageCams shopping center know that there will not be renewals of any if their leases.

On Wednesday, January 28, a special public meeting was held at Lincoln High School by Councilman Chaim, at which more details about the project’s plans were provided by the developers, as well as the remediation of the site discussed by city environmental officials.

Deutsch expressed his concerns regarding the businesses that will be displaced, increased traffic as well as the contamination on the once gas manufacturing plant site. He said, “I think it was only the right thing to let the community and elected officials know.”

Many of the businesses along the Neptune Ave, strip provide basic necessities for the residents of the neighboring complexes, such as banks, laundromat, two pharmacies, mailing facilities and restaurants that are all walking distance from the nearby co-op complexes.

One of the merchants to be effected told The Daily News, “They’re trying not to hurt anybody.” “They’re offering people money to buy them out” of current leases.

The Royal Palms spa, approximately a block from the Neptune shopping center, has been promised by Cammeby representatives, to be the relocation site for the businesses that are pushed out of the strip mall.

A spokeswoman gave confirmation of the company’s plans to set up the once bathhouse to accommodate the stores and satisfy their patrons who rely on them.

In a statement, spokeswoman Christa Segalini said, “The building is just one block from the existing shopping center and will enable tenants to continue to meet the needs of the neighborhood’s residents.”

Many neighboring residents remain upset and concerned over having access in walking distance to the businesses that meet their daily needs.

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