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A row of polished beer taps along a bar, with glasses lined up beneath
Business

Foleys of Smithtown Is Opening a Second Bar in Massapequa Park

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

The old Woody's Village Saloon at 1015 Park Boulevard has a new operator. The State Liquor Authority issued the on-premises license on September 3.

A golfer mid-swing in an indoor bay
Real Estate

An Indoor Golf Club Is Coming to Station Yards, Opening at 5 in the Morning

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

Island Greens, started by two Chaminade graduates in a Franklin Square basement, has signed for 9 Hawkins Avenue at Ronkonkoma's Station Yards, with 2027 penciled in.

An open-plan office with long windows and plants along the desks
Business

After 136 Years, Lessing's Has Built Its Own Headquarters in Great River

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

The sixth-generation hospitality company behind more than 120 locations has opened the first building it has ever built for its own team, at 3525 Sunrise Highway.

New homes at a Long Island housing development
Real Estate

Forty-Eight Years Later, Matinecock Court Opens in East Northport

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

The affordable housing development first proposed in 1978 is finished: 145 limited-equity co-op homes at Elwood and Pulaski. Workforce housing is a business issue, and this is the clearest local example of it.

A hospital building
Innovation

A $650 Million Hospital Expansion Is Approved for East Patchogue

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

Brookhaven approved the site plan for a 270,000 square foot patient pavilion at NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk, with 144 private rooms and roughly three years of construction ahead.

A research laboratory at night
Innovation

Suffolk County Just Hosted a First for American Quantum Networking

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

Entangled photons crossed 13 miles of open air from a Stony Brook rooftop to Brookhaven National Laboratory. The research corridor on our doorstep is doing work nobody else in the country has done.

A lumber and building materials yard
Business

A Second Long Island Family Business Sells to Another This Summer

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

Riverhead Building Supply is buying Contractor Express, the Oceanside lumberyard the Lucas family has run since 1981. Its president retires after 48 years in the trade.

A shopping center anchor store
Real Estate

The Last Kmart in America Reopens as a Target on October 11

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

One of the most watched retail vacancies on Long Island is filled. The 90,000 square foot anchor at Bridgehampton Commons goes back to work this fall.

A soccer stadium at night
Business

Long Island Is Getting a Professional Soccer Club at Hofstra in 2028

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

The United Soccer League has awarded a franchise to a Long Island ownership group. A 1999 World Cup champion from Greenlawn is its president, and home is Shuart Stadium.

Exhibitors and visitors at a Long Island trade show
Events

Eighty Exhibitors Come to the Melville Hilton on September 27

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

The Over 50 Fair returns to 598 Broadhollow Road for a seventeenth year with more than eighty booths, twenty free classes and a $7 advance ticket. It is a low-cost exhibiting option worth a look.

A Long Island supermarket aisle
Business

King Kullen Is Being Sold, and the Buyer Is Another Long Island Family

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

Giunta’s Meat Farms is acquiring all 24 King Kullen supermarkets and four Wild by Nature markets. The company credited as America’s first supermarket stays in local hands.

A large distribution facility
Real Estate

Amazon Has Filed for a 4.2 Million Square Foot Building in Holbrook

by Melville Chamber of Commerce ·

A roughly $1 billion package origination center on 143 acres off Sunrise Highway would be the largest building Amazon has ever proposed on Long Island, with about 1,000 jobs and 300 trailers a day.

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