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The project that was to have crowned his long career was nicknamed WillyWorld. WILLYWORLD "WillyWorld" covers a vast collection of giant shopping malls, housing, and a few smaller malls, proposed by developer Wilbur Breslin ( of of a Breslin Realty REIT , Mr Breslin filed an S-11 Statement with the SEC which nowhere mentioned "North Shore Porperties", "WillyWorld", or even the idea of a 2,100-acre mixed-use development. {Link without Title} This idea dated back at least to 1969, when the notion of an "instant city" in the Yaphank , was later hired as a Breslin Realty consultant for an undisclosed salary. (See also related article on Urban Development Corporation , section on "Long Island Partnership" which is thought by some to have been intended to finance construction of WillyWorld with publicly-guaranteed loans.) Like the legendendary Wardenclyff Tower of Nicola Tesla , or the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant just down the road, WillyWorld seems likely to be remembered as another of Long Island's "Ghost Projects". Mr. Breslin decided to have much of the forest bulldozed in the mid-1990s, but this seems to have been more to make a political or philosophical statement than to prepare for any construction. |
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