A former polluted parking lot will soon be home to 96 new apartments in Central Islip, as construction gets underway at the One Carleton Green development.

The mixed-use three-story building will include income-restricted apartments and 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space along Carleton Avenue, where a grassroots arts organization Teatro Yerbabruja plans to take space.

When the apartments are finished in about 16 months, the development will offer housing steps from Central Islip’s Long Island Rail Road station and a Suffolk County Transit bus stop.

A portion of the site had once been home to MacKenzie Chemical Works , a chemical manufacturer that operated there until 1987. It was declared a Superfund site in September 2001, with environmental remediation concluding in 20

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