What Would You Do For Your Town With $300 Million

You didn’t win the Powerball Lottery on Saturday. (Or did you?) We all have dreamed about getting a windfall at one time or another and fantasized about what we’d do when we were flush with cash. But, what if someone handed us $300 million and the only stipulation was that we had to spend it on your hometown? What would you do then?

We asked people on Facebook over the weekend what they would do if they had that kind of money and had to spend it on something in Miller Place, Rocky Point or Sound Beach. Many had some great ideas and others were just really fun sounding.

Here’s what some people had to say:

Carol Bondy: I'd clean up the beaches. They are an embarrassment.

Danielle-Steve Moore: Rip down the disgusting empty nightclub on corner of Broadway and 25a and put something that would be good for the community there.... spend the rest on building up the rest of Broadway making it a pretty village looking road families will want to shop and eat at. Too many vacant shops right now!

Deborah Murray: Restore the drive-in!

Kasen Meyers: Pave roads

Tom Capodanno: I'd build a YMCA first

Vinnie Ciavatta: Make sure no one goes hungry

Laura Mikowitz Walsh: Balance the school budget and reopen that drive in movie theatre.

Patti Kozlowski: First I would buy an new home for the Brannigan/Duffy family. Then put 1/2 into a community assistance fund for local families in time of need, restore the community programs that have been cut from the town budget, buy up the foreclosed homes and restore them as affordable rental homes for families then clean up the beaches.

Matt Hetterich Clean up the beaches and allow fisherman access again!

Victoria Fischer: How about a nice big sports center with an indoor/outdoor pool, slides, whirlpool etc. and a couple of ball fields, and an arena/stage where the big school concerts can take place so that the entire family can come? That would leave enough for a fund to maintain the place, too.

Christine Zichittella-Heeren I would build a huge facility for the autism community.... school, playgrounds, pool, medical offices, health food store, etc.

Debra Fields-Sclafani Austin Put together a program for kids that keep them off the streets and it would be free of charge

John Easterbrook: I'd build a pier going out from Broadway beach

Continue the conversation. If you had $300 million to spend on your town, what would you do with it? Balance the school budget? Preserve an historic structure? Pave the roads? What's your idea?