Success Stories

By decision dated September 19, 2006, the Appellate Division Second Department reversed a decision of the Supreme Court and determined that HBA partner John A, Harras, acting as referee, had correctly concluded that a 1922 facially ambiguous deed had transferred a numbered unimproved lot in the configuration shown on an amended subdivision map, and rejected defendants claim that deed related to a larger lot bearing the same lot number as shown on an earlier filed map.

On February 8, 2007, HBA obtained a change of zone grant from the Islip Town Board in connection with the proposed conversion of an industrially zoned property to retail use.

HBA instituted federal claims against a municipality for violations of the Fair Housing Act and American with Disabilities Act in connection with the municipality’s delay in approving a site plan for an as-of-right 408-unit senior congregate housing community proposed by HBA’s client.

HBA successfully defeated a legal challenge asserted under the Religious Corporation Law by a member of a synagogue who sought to invalidate as unreasonable a real estate purchase contract between HBA’s client, as buyer, and a synagogue.

HBA, representing the sponsor/developer of a 1,100 unit golf course senior community, won summary judgment declaring that the sponsor was entitled under the by-laws of the homeowners association to continue to control the HOA board of directors until all homes in the community were sold.

Representing one of the foremost not for profit providers of senior congregate housing in the region, HBA successfully negotiated and closed a complex $326 million IDA financing transaction in connection with a proposed not- for- profit senior congregate care facility located in the Town of North Hempstead.