On Staten Island, 10-acre retreat hits market for $16M

From left: Guthrie Garvin, a shot of the Staten Island retreat and Michael Schneider
From left: Guthrie Garvin, a shot of the Staten Island retreat and Michael Schneider

Praise the Lord. A 10-acre Jesuit retreat on Staten Island that is ripe for development has hit the market for $15.95 million, Crain’s reported. Guthrie Garvin and Michael Schneider of Massey Knakal Realty Services are marketing the property for the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order that owns the site.

The lot, located at 239 Fingerboard Road, will be delivered vacant and is already zoned for residential development. A developer can build up to approximately 113,000 square feet on the site.

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“We decided to consolidate the traditional retreat house operations into Morristown, N.J.,” Father Vincent Cooke, of the New York Province, told Crain’s. “We are hoping to get a buyer there who can use it, upkeep it as a private house, perhaps.” He added that he has already received interest from developers and the non-profit The Trust for Public Land.

“These parcels don’t come along very often,” Garvin told Crain’s. [Crain’s]Zachary Kussin