Three years after lightning struck Great Neck Village Hall, triggering a fire that rendered the building uninhabitable, Mayor Pedram Bral is ready to break ground on the village’s new $14 million home.

Bral is hopeful the groundbreaking will occur shortly after Labor Day. Earlier this month, the village awarded bids to four contractors to help build a Village Hall that will “bring honor and respect to the people,” he said in an interview.

“It’s going to be a historic building,” Bral said. “We’re not putting up a Taj Mahal, but at the same time, it has to be something that is functioning and respectable.”

Since the August 2022 fire , the village’s building department, court, zoning board and more have operated out of a series of trailers in the Department of Public Works’ parking lot.

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