Office of Economic Development | Town of Islip

Lab Crafters details how the Town of Islip aided in their expansion with permit assistance and tax breaks used to hire more local talent.

Ronkonkoma, NY - Retlif Testing Laboratories, a leading U.S. independent testing and strategic compliance organization headquartered in Ronkonkoma, NY, has inaugurated Phase One of an expansion program to offer more solar radiation testing, including both heat and photochemical testing, to military and commercial product manufacturer.

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...

NYT, By Marcelle Sussman Fischler –After 22 years in a condo near the beach in Shirley, N.Y., Dan and Donna Cresci longed for a home in a walkable community. They considered Port Jefferson, Bellport, Patchogue and East Hampton, but finally settled on Sayville, a congenial 5.4-square-mile hamlet with about 16,853 residents, on the South Shore of Long Island, midway between Manhattan and Montauk.