EPCAL

Luminati's senior scientist and chief operating officer have left the company, as have seven other people of the 18 staff members depicted on the company's website.

Laura Jens-Smith said the town is not properly vetting suitors for land at the park and criticized the supervisor for using the site's potential as "a political football."

“Aviation and aerospace will be reborn on Long Island. It’s being re-birthed right now," former congressman George Hochbreuckner told the Riverhead planning board at a public hearing last night. "Don’t ruin this fantastic opportunity.”

With Luminati Aerospace getting its work underway at EPCAL and two potential purchasers for the balance of the town-owned acreage there, some board members are wary of green-lighting an addiction research and rehab facility adjacent to the active runway.

The terms of the sale, which will close in stages over 18 months, include a nonrefundable $1 million down payment. The developer plans to build an industrial office park

After five-and-a-half years and more than $600,000, Riverhead Town is at last in the home stretch of a long, difficult and sometimes contentious process of subdividing, zoning and marketing the remaining land it owns at the former Grumman plant in Calverton.

Riverhead Town has landed another $150,000 to help it complete a biking/hiking trail at the Calverton Enterprise Park, but what to do about an unpaved section of the trail remains in dispute.

Riverhead Town has completed a five-and-a-half-year environmental review process on a new development plan for its remaining property at the former Grumman facility in Calverton. The...

America's conversion to a gambling nation has fed government's addiction to growth. A tribal casino for L.I. is not as far-fetched an idea as it may have seemed — and the Calverton Enterprise Park continues to be the subject of discussion among developers, real estate brokers, bankers and politicians.

Luminati's ultralight aircraft, capable of perpetual flight — being developed to bring internet connectivity to unserved regions of the world — also has "obvious" military applications for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance purposes. The company, now readying to move into a much larger facility at EPCAL, will seek defense contracts, its founder said.