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A new report from CoStar presents a striking reality for the national multifamily market: across many major U.S. metro areas, luxury apartment vacancy rates remain stubbornly high. Yet here on Long Island, the data tells a different story — one of accelerating absorption and vanishing availability, even in the most premium segments of the market. While national headlines focus on oversupply in cities like Austin, Denver, and Miami, Long Island stands out as an outlier — and n

Over 200 leaders from Long Island’s construction, architecture, and engineering sectors gathered on Thursday, December 12, 2025 for a breakfast event that was as insightful as it was impactful. Hosted by HIA-LI in collaboration with the Long Island Builders Institute and the Long Island Contractors Association , the event spotlighted the findings of the Grassi 2024 Construction and Architecture & Engineering (A&E) Industry Survey Report . It was a morning of thoughtful discu

Long Island Business News has announced this year’s 40 Under Forty honorees. 40 Under Forty recognizes Long Island professionals 40 years of age or younger who are distinguishing themselves in business, government, education and the nonprofit sector. They have a proven track record of career success, are actively engaged in mentoring and promoting their professions, and find time to give back to their communities. The honorees were selected by a committee of previous recipien

Elected officials, state and local leaders will join developers Friday for a groundbreaking of a $33.75 million affordable and supportive housing project in East Patchogue. Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine, Brookhaven Supervisor Dan Panico and New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner and CEO Ruth Anne Visnauskas are expected at the ceremony that marks the start of construction of The Grove, a 55-unit mixed-use development. GGV Grove Apartments LLC, a grou

A plan to build a new $35 million warehouse in Hauppauge has added a youth sports component to be donated to the community. The developers, a partnership of Roslyn-based Barone Management and The Kulka Group in Hauppauge, first pitched a project that would bring a 138,150-square-foot warehouse building to a 10-acre vacant lot at 471 Blydenburgh Road located across from the Town of Islip Recycling Center and landfill. The developers had a public hearing with the Islip Planni

Developers of a workforce apartment project in East Patchogue have closed on a package of economic incentives from the Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency. GGV Grove Apartments LLC, a development group headed by Jericho-based Georgica Green Ventures, is planning to build a $33.75 million three-building rental complex on a 2.78-acre site at 400 E. Main St. The development, called The Grove, will be located on the southeast corner of East Main Street and Grove Av

We’re proud to share that Team Mannino-Kulka Fights Cancer was named the #1 Friends and Family Team at the 2023 Long Island Light the Night, hosted by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). This recognition highlights not only the strength of our team, but the impact of coming together for a cause that hits close to home. Team Mannino-Kulka was formed in support of Rob Mannino, The Kulka Group’s Chief Operating Officer and a blood cancer survivor. Rob’s diagnosis and recovery

Plans for a five-story mixed-use apartment building on the corner of West Main Street and Sweezy Avenue were presented for the first time to the Riverhead Town Board yesterday. Georgica Green Ventures of Jericho, the developers of Riverview Lofts on East Main Street and one of two developers designated to do the transit-oriented development across from the Long Island Rail Road station, and the Kulka Group of Hauppauge are proposing the construction of a 58-foot 7-inch tall b

Business advocacy group HIA-LI has added three members to its board of directors. Joining the HIA-LI board are Devin Kulka, CEO of The Kulka Group, Kelly Murphy, deputy executive director of the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency and Michael Sabatini, managing partner of Citrin Cooperman . “These three outstanding individuals each bring specialized expertise that will help HIA-LI achieve its organizational goals,” Terri Alessi-Miceli, president and CEO of HIA-LI,

Residents gather to discuss East Patchogue development It’s not a shock to anyone that the Long Island real estate market is the highest and most competitive it’s ever been. Still facing the repercussions of a pandemic, rent and sale prices on apartments and houses are through the roof, and the waiting lines for open house tours wrap around street corners. On Thursday, April 21, the Focus East Patchogue group held a public meeting at the Patchogue-Medford Library to give proj

The Kulka Group, a Hauppauge-based commercial construction company, has launched a media platform for industry leaders to share expertise and business opportunities. Called Kulka Interactive, it features an internet-based interview program “Breaking Ground” hosted by company CEO Devin Kulka. “Over the past few years we have invested heavily in the concept of being a construction and real estate development company driven by the powers of technology,” Kulka said in a company s

Smithtown officials will propose zoning changes to encourage construction of as many as 1,000 apartments in the Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge, Smithtown Supervisor Edward Wehrheim said. The rezoning, which the town council is scheduled to take up at a future public hearing, would enable mixed-use development on a far larger scale than Smithtown officials have previously contemplated. Apartments, commercial and office space along with resident- or shopper-friendly a

The 1970s were a time of turmoil, including the Vietnam War, which wouldn’t end until 1975, an oil crisis and the Watergate scandal. In 1975, President Ford refused to provide the federal assistance that would rescue New York City, essentially telling the region to “drop dead” – a phrase he would later deny. On Long Island, Hofstra University opened its law school in 1970, and Stuart Rabinowitz, now the university’s president, joined the faculty. Hofstra Law’s clinical progr

Four of the region’s largest solar companies are working with the Hauppauge Industrial Association on an initiative that would install solar panels on many of the members’ 459 rooftops, generating up to 20 megawatts of solar power. The companies, Harvest Power, EmPower Solar, EnterSolar and SUNation Solar, have been working with the HIA to study rooftops to determine which are best suited to solar. The solar companies sent letters to more than 400 buildings in the Hauppauge I

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Young Jewish Professionals (YJP) recently held its 40 Under 40 Winter Gala, honoring 40 CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and rising corporate talent in the Jewish community. The annual event took place on January 27th, at Espace New York City, with over 1,000 members of the tri-state area’s business class in attendance. Each of the 40 honorees had graciously joined YJP’s Mentorship Council, providing educational support and career

Hauppauge, NY Nearly 40 years ago, Jack Kulka founded Kulka Construction and the concept of construction management to give clients quality build at lower costs. Since then, Kulka Construction has built over 22 million s/f across the tri-state and south Florida with a portfolio that includes world-class waterfront residences, community centers, retail centers, hotels, industrial facilities and corporate offices. Construction management is a method of construction where Kul

Devin Kulka has learned the construction business from the ground up. The son of Jack Kulka, who founded Kulka Construction nearly 40 years ago, Devin Kulka started out as concrete laborer before rising through the ranks of his father’s firm. With his dad hampered by health issues, the young Kulka was pressed into service running the company’s day-to-day operations.Now CEO, Kulka has rebranded the firm as The Kulka Group, expanding its services to offer general contracting,

Perfume Center of America Inc., a Plainview-based wholesale distributor and online retailer of fragrances, plans to move next month into a $45 million solar-powered facility in Ronkonkoma. The company's new 220,000-square-foot headquarters at 2020 Ocean Ave. will house about 100 employees and boast Long Island's second-largest, privately owned commercial solar installation, according to PSEG. Perfume Center currently has three facilities on Long Island and wants the new site

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. FIVE years ago, the Long Island Weekly examined the rapid rise and success of several

AFTER several years of fruitless efforts by various developers, the area of Long Island that one hotel executive has termed part of ''the most exciting hotel market in the country'' has two definite hotel starts, controversial applications for two others and nearby construction for yet one more. If each of these development plans comes to completion, this area, which now has no lodging facilities, will have almost 1,500 available hotel rooms. The Route 110 corridor, cutting a