E-whupped retail developers extoll mixed-use planning
By GREGORY ZELLER // The experts have spoken, and their message about the future of retail real estate is clear: Mix it up. Faced with rising e-retail options and dwindling…
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Topspin finds an inspirational Remedy in NYC
A Long Island-born investment fund with a taste for tech has acquired an award-winning Manhattan-based digital health platform. Topspin Partners, formerly headquartered in Roslyn Heights and now based in Mamaroneck,…
In $2 million startup, 11,000 wines and one full circle
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the latest cog in a multistate corporate wheel likely to spin past $3 billion in revenue next year, Total Wine Spirits & More is not…
Comtech inks $96.2M in new emergency-call contracts
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island-based communications cornerstone will manage a 911 emergency network and wireless 911 services affecting millions of U.S. customers, according to a series of new…
Northwell’s ‘Health Story’ dives into Maria’s devastation
Northwell Health’s latest “Health Story” takes listeners into the heart of the storm, both literally and figuratively. The newest episode of the New Hyde Park-based health system’s monthly podcast follows…
Island gets the lead out, with Albany’s help
By GREGORY ZELLER // Four Long Island projects are included in a $20 million state funding package for municipal projects replacing residential water-service lines made from lead. Twenty-six individual projects…
Nassau IDA incentives snag NYC tech firm
A New York City-based tech firm will relocate to Port Washington, bringing 163 existing jobs and creating 255 more. Lured by an economic-development incentives package from the Nassau County Industrial…
Northwell innovators think outside the box, and in
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bioelectronics and “smart” tech won the day in the Northwell Health 2017 Innovation Challenge. The challenge, which invited the New Hyde Park-based health system’s 63,000-plus employees…
NYU Winthrop’s blood-loss program a gain for civilians
By GREGORY ZELLER // Law enforcers, educators and other potential civilian responders to trauma situations are benefitting from an NYU Winthrop Hospital program built around a critical emergency skill. The…
Driver-friendly app keeps on trucking, all the Thruway
By GREGORY ZELLER // When you hit the road on Thanksgiving – and according to AAA, 51 million of you Innovate LI readers/U.S. residents will do that – your trip…
Defense Logistics Agency re-ups on DNA markers
A federal contract extension will keep Applied DNA Sciences knee-deep in microcircuits for another year at least. The Stony Brook biotech said Monday that the Defense Logistics Agency has awarded…
For SUNY medical schools, difficult choices ahead
By GREGORY ZELLER // With various D.C. follies choking off federal funding, SUNY’s academic medical centers are starting to feel the pinch. And the State University’s teaching hospitals – including…
Suffolk IDA package gives relocating PT firm a leg up
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Whitestone-based physical therapy network has received a shot in the arm from the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. The IDA on Thursday offered preliminary approval…
Debrief: Ken White eyes tomorrow’s workforce, today
When last we chatted up Ken White, the manager of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Office of Educational Programs was jazzed about the progress the then-three-year-old Long Island STEM Hub was making…
Ronkonkoma Hub (finally) gets its Brookhaven IDA deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The ambitious Ronkonkoma Hub development project has at long last secured an incentives package from the Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency. The tax-abatement deal has…