A Village of Roslyn-based insurance provider introduced plans to the Board of Trustees on Wednesday for a 2,626 square-foot second floor addition to its Old Northern Boulevard office.
Ken Fabricant, a principal at Fabricant & Fabricant, said the company has outgrown the current space at 1251 Old Northern Blvd., and would also need the addition if its plans to purchase another agency are completed.
“As for the second floor, we don’t have people we’ve hired yet, so we don’t have a set number of people who are going to be coming in there, but we definitely need the space,” he said. “…We can’t wait until an opportunity arises, whether it’s buying this other agency, to say, OK, let’s work out where we’re going to put them.”
The construction would require a special-use permit that would be attained by approval from the board of trustees, after the project receives approvals from the village’s architectural review board and zoning board of appeals.
“We start you here so we have an idea of what’s going on and then those boards would make their decisions and you’d come back before us,” Village of Roslyn Mayor John Durkin said.
During its application process, Fabricant & Fabricant would likely require a parking variance to make up for an 11-space deficit based on its building requirements, officials said.
The company has a verbal agreement with nearby Hendricks Tavern to allow employees of the two businesses to share parking, Fabricant said, but village officials said the application would benefit from a written form of that agreement.
