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

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