| Company |
County |
# Jobs |
Article Date |
Comments |
| B. Smith Restaurant |
Suffolk |
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09-20-2006 |
Barbara Smith, television hostess-author-entrepreneur, toured the main streets of Bay Shore and Patchogue in Suffolk scouting sites for a new 7,000 square-foot restaurant. B. Smith who already operates an eatery in Sag Harbor (Suffolk) and Manhattan, was accompanied on the search by Suffolk’s economic development commissioner James Morgo and local officials. (Newsday – September 20, 2006) |
| CPI Aerostructures |
Suffolk |
|
09-18-2006 |
Edgewood (Suffolk) - based CPI Aerostructures received a $1.1 million order for a variety of aircraft parts productions. The order is part of a 7 year contract worth $215 million. (Long Island Business News – September 11, 2006)
Edgewood (Suffolk) – based CPI Aerostructures, said it has been awarded a $2.1 million contract to provide the U.S. government with 19 landing gear door assemblies. (Long Island Business News – September 18, 2006) |
| Globecomm Systems Inc. |
Suffolk |
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09-22-2006 |
Hauppauge (Suffolk) – based Globecomm Systems Inc., a provider of satellite communications, said it received multiple contract from various U.S. government agencies worth $15.2 million. The work is to be completed over approximately the next ten months but the company did not specify more about the awards(Long Island Business News – September 7, 2006)
Hauppauge (Suffolk) – Globecomm Systems Inc., said it received an extra $2.7 million to support an existing contract with the Afghan National Army. (Long Island Business News – September 22, 2006) |
| Hilton Garden Inn |
Suffolk |
|
09-15-2006 |
The Riverhead (Suffolk) Town Zoning Board gave approval for a Hilton Garden Inn to be built on Route 58. (The News Review – September 2006) |
| Marriott Residence Inn |
Suffolk |
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09-15-2006 |
The Riverhead (Suffolk) Town Zoning Board gave approval for a 140-room Marriott Residence Inn to be built on Route 58. (The News Review – September 2006) |
| Medical Action Industries |
Suffolk |
|
09-12-2006 |
Hauppauge (Suffolk) – based Medical Action Industries, a supplier of disposable medical products has inked its largest and most significant deal by acquiring an $80 million medical supplies manufacturer Medegen Llc., a Scottsdale, Arizona company. (Newsday – September 12, 2006) |
| Orbit International Corp. |
Suffolk |
|
09-26-2006 |
Hauppauge (Suffolk) – based Orbit International Corp, won two F-16 program contracts worth $340,000. (Long Island Business News – September 7, 2006)
Hauppauge (Suffolk) – Orbit International received $350,000 in orders for its digital interrogator units from an unnamed defense contractor. (Long Island Business News – September 26, 2006) |
| Public Pre-K Classes |
Suffolk |
|
09-06-2006 |
Thanks to increased funding from New York state, five school districts in Suffolk County - Brentwood, Farmingdale, Middle Country, Patchogue-Medford and South Huntington - and one - Lawrence - in Nassau are offering public pre-kindergarten classes for the first time. Under a state law first approved in 1997 the legislature this year made an additional $50M (on top of $225M already beins spent) available for the pre-K programs. (Newsday, September 7, 2006) |
| Sleepy's |
Nassau |
|
09-07-2006 |
Sleepy's Inc., one of the nation's largest bedding retailers, is considering a major expansion and relocation of it's distribution and headquarters facilities from Bethpage to the nearby former campus of Northrop Grumman. In what one Long Island real estate insider described as "about the largest warehouse [deal] that I can remember", Sleepy's will leave the Bethpage (Nassau) headquarters it has occupied since 1994 in favor of a 65%-larger space in the nearby former Grumman plant. The company, Long Island's 15th largest by revenue according to LI Business News, has more than 400 stores in 7 states and, in 2004, had 1,300 employees, including about 500 locally. (LI Business News, September 6, 2006) |
| Telephonics Corporation |
Suffolk |
|
09-13-2006 |
Telephonics Corp., a subsidiary of Griffon Corp., received an $11 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop and qualify an encryption system used for transmission of secure communications. The work will be performed at the Telephonics facility in Farmingdale (Suffolk). (Long Island Business News – September 13, 2006) |
| Winthrop Wellness Pavillion |
Nassau |
|
09-27-2006 |
The Former Saks Fifth Avenue in Garden City (Nassau), vacant since January 2005, is set to be reinvented as a health center to be known as the Winthrop Wellness Pavillion. Winthrop-University Hospital and Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness will join forces to fill two-thirds of the space. Winthrop will use the space for physician’s offices, physical therapy and sports medicine, and health education classes and seminars. Healthtrax, will offer gym services including cardio, lap pool, yoga. (Long Island Business News – September 27, 2006) |
| Xiom Corp. |
Suffolk |
|
09-13-2006 |
Xiom Corp., a plastic coatings company in West Babylon (Suffolk) is tripling its space by moving next door. The expansion comes after the company received an 18-month Navy contract to develop a special spray and coatings gun to reduce Navy ship maintenance costs. The dollar amount was not discussed. (Newsday – September 13, 2006) |
| “Trump on the Ocean” Restaurant |
Nassau |
|
09-15-2006 |
Real estate mogul Donald Trump and Long Island restaurateur Steven M. Carl will join forces to launch an upscale dining and banquet facility at Jones Beach State Park (Nassau) dubbed “Trump on the Ocean”. The state will own the facility and take in about $200,000 a year, plus inflation, as a flat fee. New York will receive between 2 and 5 percent of the gross revenues from the catering hall and restaurant, once it passes the three year mark. Mr. Trump promises to invest $40 million of private money in the project. As a state-owned project on state land, the restaurant will be exempt from school and county real estate taxes, although the county and state would still collect sales taxes from the facility. (Newsday – September 15, 2006) |
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