The Bryant Landing senior citizen housing facility, slated for construction in downtown Roslyn may be undergoing some changes.

Michael Daly, president of Forest City Daly, the Manhattan-based company that is building the facility, is seeking approval for changes in the size of the project.

For starters, Daly would like the facility to now be made up of two buildings, not three as the original plan had it. Secondly, he would like to cut down the total number of units from 250 to 210.

Finally, the company seeks to alter the nature of Bryant Landing by changing 90 units of assisted living to 50 apartments for people 55 years and older.

The result of such alterations to the original plan would be a decrease in the square footage of Bryant Landing by 1,000 ft., Daly said. Such changes would also decrease the environmental impact on the village--namely, traffic flow in the downtown area. Because of that, Daly said he thought the alterations would be "good news" for the village.

On Monday, Nov. 10, members of the Village of Roslyn board of trustees, plus the site review board and the historic board heard Daly's arguments in a meeting held at the Bryant Library. No decision was made and there will be another meeting to discuss the proposal on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. at Roslyn Village Hall, 1200 Old Northern Blvd.

For a number of years, Forest City Daly has received approval from all the necessary agencies in the village to proceed with Bryant Landing. Company personnel has been busy with other, similar projects in the New York area, but recently Michael Daly said that the firm was "ready to go" with a January official groundbreaking at the site in downtown Roslyn. In the summer of 2002, Forest City Daly held a symposium for potential residences and Daly has also said that his firm already has a number of depositors lined up for Bryant Landing.

If groundbreaking still goes through in January, the first piece of work will be the restoration of a waterfront access park. That project could be completed by the spring of 2004. Daly has said that it should take a good 24 months to be complete the entire project.

The exterior features of the facility will include a major walkway, one connecting the buildings to the waterfront along Hempstead Harbor and to Old Northern Boulevard. Also planned are a four-acre park, natural springs, and three freshwater ponds, themselves to be used for both blue fishing and bass fishing opportunities. The indoor space will include a library, a movie theater, a store and a café, and an arts and crafts room for the residents.