Before Goshen, there was Woodbury.
Before Woodbury, there was Chester.
Before Chester, there was a missile silo near Lake Placid.
All are places where Liliana Trafficante has proposed building a water park in the past few years.
So far, though, all she's managed to build is a reputation for stringing sellers along and failing to pay her bills.
Trafficante, who works out of a Manhattan office, is the founder of Bouchville Manors. The organization is dedicated to finding jobs for young people leaving foster care, according to its Web site.
Trafficante's latest effort in that quest is the GoOcean water park and resort. Trafficante said she'd like to build a $100 million-plus complex including an indoor/outdoor water park, a hotel, retail space and housing on a 120-acre parcel near Route 17's Exit 124.
The project would include housing for young adults making the transition out of foster care. They would work at the water park and hotel and gain valuable career skills, said Trafficante, who has fashioned a persona as a crusader for children's rights.
She's a 1985 graduate of the Dwight School, a private elementary and secondary school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The school's mission is to prepare students for a life of public service. It expects its students to 'use their unique 'spark of genius' to build a better world, ' according to the Dwight Web site.
Former business associates say Trafficante fixed on the idea of a water park and mini village for foster kids as long as a decade ago. The history of the project is memorialized in virtual scraps of paper scattered across the Internet, many with missing words and other typos.
One of the earliest, a 2002 PRWeb news release, announced that Trafficante's companies, Bouchville Manors and International Dreams, planned to build 'The First Foster Home, mini park, and water park in history housed in a missile.'
The document seeks financial assistance.'EMMEDIATE INVESTOR ACTION NEEDED $5,000.00 to start and 45 million in purchase and construction, ' it reads.
The Lake Placid plan never materialized, and by 2003 or Trafficante had turned her attention to Orange County.
In an Oct. 8, online news release, Trafficante announced plans to break ground on a foster home, mini-town and water park the following April in Chester. She tried to buy a home with land there, but the deal fell through when she didn't come up with cash, according to sources familiar with the deal.
Liliana trafficante is an incompetent, stupid, crook
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