Decades later, HIA-LI is still making the industrial grade
By TOM MARINER // One of Long Island’s most powerful business organizations was originally sparked by a power outage. The HIA-LI launched after a 1978 blackout, which left many of…
Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge
A decade later, ‘demonstrable success’ from the SCIDA
By GREGORY ZELLER // Ten years, 10 towns and one historic effort later, the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency has finalized a winning downtown-redevelopment strategy – and is sharing the…
In this ‘Talent Pipeline,’ an innovative workforce plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // The long-term competitiveness of the greater Long Island workforce – and the Northeast’s largest industrial park – gets the royal treatment in a new study by…
Workforce development? A walk in the industrial park
By GREGORY ZELLER // A specialized task force will assist workforce development at the Northeast’s largest industrial park. The HIA-LI, one of Long Island’s most muscular business-advocacy organizations, has launched…
‘Everything everywhere’ with Anne Shybunko-Moore
By TOM MARINER // The title of the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” accurately describes a treasure of Long Island, Anne Shybunko-Moore, CEO and owner of an important 52-year-old…
Fifty years and one full circle at Contract Pharmacal
By TOM MARINER // A familiar theme for success – and for staying on Long Island – is “family owned and operated.” Look no further than Contract Pharmacal Corp., which…
No. 679: On videogames, Tazers and Twinkies, with Island IDAs in beast mode
Farm report: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we shake off these April showers and get our hands good and dirty, tilling the back 40 of socioeconomic progress. It’s…
No. 518: In which pipers pipe, pilots soar and Lazarus rises – and an LI biotech cures COVID (maybe)
Onward and upward: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the national pandemic, the coast-to-coast heat wave and our universal drive toward socioeconomic greatness all press on, undaunted. DeFina point:…
In Smithtown, a blueprint for mixed-use progress
By TERRI ALESSI-MICELI // Some live only in the present, heedless of the future. Happily, however, the Town of Smithtown is thinking about the future. Specifically, the town has been…
No recovery without trade groups, which need support
By TERRI ALESSI-MICELI // We generally think of COVID-19’s devastation in terms of its human toll and its economic toll. Indeed, the pandemic is registering a terrible impact on the…
No. 430: Growing up fast, helping Northwell’s ‘dependents’ and plugging Innovation Park
In country: You’ve done it again, intrepid innovator – another workweek in the books, another weekend on tap. It’s Aug. 16 on Long Island and around the world –…
No. 415: On Cheerios, Stooges, smarter schools and ignored internships – plus, action in Innovation Park
Sunny disposition: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the final Innovate LI newsletter of Spring 2019. That’s correct – whatever soggy gloom the Weather Channel predicts, summer officially begins…