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Aerial Photos: Matt Lauer's Water Mill Horse Farm Comes Together

See the progress of Lauer's Edge of Woods Horse Farm.

The construction of "Today" host Matt Lauer's horse farm is well underway in Water Mill.

Aerial photos illustrate the state of the project in December 2012.

The Sag Harbor Express reported in May 2012 that Lauer's Edge of Woods Horse Farm is slated to include two 34,000-square-foot outdoor riding rings, a 23,940 square-foot-indoor riding ring, and a 17,455-square-foot barn with space for up to 36 horses.

According to The Express, the 30.3-acre property is a preserve, after Southampton Town purchased the development rights for $3.6 million in 2005, when it was known as Frankenbach’s Deerfield Nursery.

A number of Water Mill residents fought the horse farm plan, on the basis that it was a large project on preserved land, but it was ultimately approved, as a horse farm was a permitted use.

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GOLD FINGER January 8, 2013 at 03:24 pm
Is that Matt's wife in the bikini?
Hazel Wilkonson the First January 8, 2013 at 03:59 pm
How do you get approval to build on land purchased as a preserve? Oh, yeah, you have to be Matt Lauer.
tish graziano January 8, 2013 at 04:11 pm
Why is big money getting EVERYTHING they want????
Jaguar-Guy January 8, 2013 at 04:13 pm
NBC Ultra-Liberal gets the preferential treatment - no $#!& Sherlock.
Harold Wilson January 8, 2013 at 06:57 pm
actually, I believe that a "Horse Farm" falls under the agricultural heading... Just look up the street at the Zaluski Farm...same thing, different address.....
Jackie January 9, 2013 at 12:48 am
Better than an ugly oversized building
oonald January 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm
And they wanted to see mitts tax returns, a farm of horses is taxed as a farm very low tax. Hey Matt you pay the same tax rate for 30 acre as I pay for a half acre?????????? Sounds like warren buffet secretary story ooooohhhhh no BUSTED
christie nicolle January 11, 2013 at 05:10 pm
i've unfortunately run into bland + liberal Matt 2 times ... yikes, for me, bald heads + lefty mentality is just too gross... + the media plays him up to be handsome??
He's NOT.
Darren Gengarelly Sr. January 12, 2013 at 03:27 pm
Yeah i thought Bishop's war on Piping Plovers was bad.
They should all wear t-shirts that say do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do. Gore sucking up half the electricity in his area. Etc..............
Jackie January 12, 2013 at 05:41 pm
HORSES ARE MUCH KINDER THEN RUDE HAMPTONITES OR WANT TO BEES THAT COME OUT, RAVAGE OUR TOWN & LEAAVE THEIR CRAP BEHIND.
Jackie January 12, 2013 at 05:49 pm
DID YOU MEAN MAT NOT MITT ?????????
Jackie January 12, 2013 at 05:52 pm
I DIDN'T EVER LOOK AT THE NAME, MY IMMEDIATE THOUGHT WAS SOUNDS LIKE CHILDISH SILLY GIRL TAUK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jackie January 12, 2013 at 06:55 pm
childish comment grow up.
oonald January 12, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Jackie ; mitt Romney
Note Article
Just a short thought to get the word out quickly about anything in your neighborhood.
Share something with your neighbors. Write a new post... What's up? Make an announcement, speak your mind, or sell something
Sid Viscuous June 19, 2013 at 02:59 pm
Firstly, Maude, it is not Sid "Viscious" it is Sid "Viscuous" - look it up.Read More Secondly, all you tinfoil-hat wearing science deniers need to wake the heck up: "STOCKHOLM -- The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens." In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions of people in poverty." As a result, the Washington-based bank said it is stepping up support for efforts to curb climate change and to help the world adapt to it. "Urgent action is needed to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to help countries prepare for a world of dramatic climate change and weather extremes," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement." "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Tom Mulrooney June 20, 2013 at 12:33 am
Maud, very well presented. We as citizens should never be so blind as to have contempt prior toRead More investigation. I would hope all who read your post love the environment as much as it appears you do. If we citizens prefer to be stewards of our own lives and property than we need to stand up and investigate that which the town board so very much wants to approve.
Gian Pietro June 20, 2013 at 07:23 am
Great job Maud, the so called "counterpoint", to put it politely, is solely made up ofRead More typical Saul Alinsky radical tactics, short on facts yet big on insults, derision and mockery, as if that would somehow change the truthfulness of your well documented post.