The Long Island Power Authority said Friday it is close to buying a Medford amusement park and converting the site for use as a PSEG Long Island storage depot.
LIPA spokeswoman Jen Hayen said in an email the utility was “finalizing” the purchase of the Route 112 site of Country Fair Entertainment and Event Park. The amusement park announced Wednesday on its website it would not reopen this summer, Newsday previously reported, but had provided no information about why it closed.
Elizabeth Flagler, spokesperson for PSEG, which provides electric service to Long Island homes and businesses under contract to LIPA, said in an email the utility plans to open an operations center on the 24.3-acre site between July and September of 2026. The facility would employ about 115 people, she said.
Operations centers are used to store trucks and equipment but do not generate power.
“This property will be used for a new centralized operational center to enhance response times and the quality of service in the Brookhaven area,” Flagler wrote.
Real estate records show the property’s owner is Country Fair Leasing LLC, whose managing partner, Rocco Trotta, is chairman and co-founder of the LiRo Group, a Syosset-based construction and engineering firm.
Attempts to reach Trotta through LiRo Group and the firm’s current and past attorneys and spokespeople were unsuccessful.
Country Fair had operated for 23 years at the site, offering go-kart racing, mini-golf, arcade games and other amusements.
The park had been closed since the end of its summer season. Employees said they were told Tuesday the park would not reopen.
Brookhaven Supervisor Dan Panico said Friday he had spoken to LIPA officials about the utility’s plans. The town has no role in approving the new use of the property because LIPA, as a public utility, is exempt from local zoning, he said.
Panico said he enjoyed bringing his two young children to Country Fair for the batting cages and to ride go-karts.
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