Listen to this article More than 1,000 local business, community and government leaders are expected to attend the 23rd annual Long Island Smart Growth Summit on Friday, Dec. 6. This year’s summit, which takes place at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, will focus on helping small businesses, planning locally for new housing options,…
Listen to this article Wegmans Food Markets has announced the much-anticipated opening of its first Long Island store will be in February. The supermarket chain will hold a grand opening for the 101,000-square-foot store at 3270 Middle Country in Lake Grove at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26. “We have been actively hiring and training…
Listen to this article A design shop in Roslyn has transformed into a New England holiday house, inspired by Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.” Serena & Lily, which is headquartered in Sausalito, CA, and has 18 shops across the nation, selected its Roslyn location to partner with Landed Interiors, a design studio in Manhattan. The Roslyn…
Listen to this article The Long Island Cannabis Club, the area’s newest cannabis retailer, will hold its grand opening Friday. The 4,200-square-foot dispensary at 94 East Industry Court, which has been in the works for two years, joins the slowly growing crop of Long Island’s retail cannabis businesses. Courtesy of Long Island Cannabis Club Unlike most…
Listen to this article Mount Sinai South Nassau has opened a walk-in primary care center at B2K’s mixed-use development in Long Beach. The new clinic is the first commercial tenant to open at the $369 million waterfront complex from Jericho-based B2K Development and its partner Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. YogaSix recently leased 2,077 square feet at the development…
Listen to this article A former Long Island resident, who made headlines as a poker professional, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Central Islip in connection to a “massive” sports-betting fraud scheme, officials said. Cory Zeidman is a former World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Now a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, he pleaded…
Listen to this article An East End entrepreneur who stole more than $385,000 from clients over a three-year period was sentenced to prison, officials said Tuesday. Mark Ripolone, formerly of Montauk, had pleaded guilty last year to grand larceny charges. This week he was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, Suffolk County District…
Listen to this article State and local elected officials joined business and civic leaders Tuesday to mark the completion of a $13.7 million sewer project in Central Islip. The infrastructure project along Carleton Avenue, which received $2 million from New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative funds, is aimed at supporting mixed-use development around the Central…
Listen to this article CBIZ, which recently acquired Marcum, which has offices in Melville, announced a new leadership change. The professonal services advisory firm said on Tuesday that Brad Lakhia will become its next senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective March 17. Lakhia will succeed Ware Grove, who is retiring after serving in…
Listen to this article Construction crews and Suffolk Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation officials celebrated a milestone last week in the $210 million expansion project at Jake’s 58 Casino Hotel. Ronkonkoma-based Aurora Contractors, the project’s general contractor, and Islip-based J.C. Steel Erectors, the project’s steel erection subcontractor celebrated the topping-off of the construction of the casino’s…