Huntington Business Briefs

Canon Puts Down Roots in Huntington
Canon broke ground on its Long Island headquarters Monday.

The Huntington Town Planning Board approved plans in March for the five-story office building, totaling close to 700,000 square feet, including two multi-level parking garages. The 52.17-acre parcel is located at the southwest corner of the Long Island Expressway South Service Road and Walt Whitman Road.

"Canon breaking ground on its new Canon Americas headquarters represents a major milestone in the redevelopment of the Route 110 corridor, bringing a total of 2,000 immediate and future jobs and spurring additional, related growth. We look forward to working with Canon as the construction progresses, to the eventual ribbon-cutting, when we will formally welcome the Canon employees who will call Huntington their working home," said Huntington Town Supervisor Frank P. Petrone.

Telephonics Expands R & D Facilities
Telephonics has opened a 100,000-square-foot research and development facility on Park Avenue in Huntington "to strengthen its presence in the defense and civil air-traffic management market," according to a press release.

"The new facility is a commitment to our customers that we will continue to invest in our products and people in order to provide them with the most advanced and reliable products in a timely manner," Don Pastor, Telephonics Electronic Systems Division president, said in a statement.

Cookies! Coffee! Kosher!
Chip 'N Dipped will open this summer at 342 New York Avenue in Huntington. It obtained a building permit from the Town of Huntington for interior alterations on March 11 for a "food shop/bakery."

A note on the company's web site states that its retail store at 201 East Main Street will be closed until Memorial Day "when it will open in a site that is three times the size of its current location."

The company, which creates all-natural cookies, was founded by Peter Goldfarb using and improving upon his mother Roberta's cookie recipes. The cookies are kosher, as well, according to a note on its site which states that the Chip'n Dipped Cookie Company is under the strict rabbinacal supervision of Rabbi Yoel Adelman of Young Israel of Huntington.