Office of Economic Development | Town of Islip

Bill Mannix, Town of Islip’s Director of Economic Development, meets with representatives from the other Long Island IDA’s and Discover Long Island. All eight IDA’s are working on a cooperative effort to market the area and bring more businesses to Long Island. Find out more about this collaboration: https://libn.com/2019/07/19/idas-and-discover-long-island-join-in-marketing-effort/

Islip, NY – The Town of Islip is happy to announce its 9th Annual CEO summit. Come gain valuable ideas and practices, and hear stories from some of Islip’s most successful business leaders. Join Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter and LI Builders Institute’s CEO, Mitchell Pally, for our “5-minute” speaker format, which will give you the opportunity to hear several insightful topics. A light breakfast will be served and it’s all FREE! Learn more and register today.

Back when Long Island was undeveloped farm country, the Town of Islip was founded by William Nicoll in November of 1683. Now, 335 years later, our beautiful town is thriving and has grown to be the third largest township in all of New York State. In our year-long birthday celebration (you’d celebrate all year long too if you were 335 years old) of our beautiful town that brings industry and a bustling community together, many local businesses have participated in the celebrations with special offerings, especially many of our local restaurants.

Islip officials have leased the Hauppauge and Holbrook landfills to a company that will build solar arrays that are expected to produce enough energy to power 2,500 homes a year. Islip Town officials said they are transforming their trash piles into renewable energy treasure with solar farms planned at two closed landfills...