Letters
Riverhead must say ‘no’ to an air cargo hub at EPCAL
Officials can require the developer to file covenants ensuring that this property will never be used for air cargo. Let's protect our environment and use our industrial land and public dollars to support employers that will benefit local workers. Long Island can have good jobs and clean air.
Letters
When push came to shove, the Town Board punted. Riverhead IDA should send Triple Five right back to the Town...
EPCAL Watch coordinator Rex Farr, in an open letter to the Riverhead IDA, urges the agency to send the Triple Five plan back to the Town Board for decision, because the application for IDA benefits is premature.
Guest Column
We must hold firm in our opposition
Guest column: Has the threat of an air cargo distribution hub at EPCAL disappeared? Or has it just been put in a memory hole? Too many questions remain unanswered.
Guest Column
Triple Five executive: ‘No cargo jetport for Calverton’
Guest column: Calverton Aviation & Technology CEO Justin Ghermezian says the company "will continue to work with the town to create a plan" for EPCAL consistent with the town's vision for the site and "these development plans will not include a cargo jetport."
Business
Triple Five-affiliate sues Luminati-owned company over parcel at EPCAL
A Triple Five-affiliate company is suing a Luminati Aerospace-owned company over the right to a 16-acre parcel of land along the 10,000-foot runway in Calverton where Luminati Aerospace once operated.
Business
Federal court green-lights adding Nader Ghermezian as defendant in civil racketeering lawsuit over counterfeit hand sanitizer
Triple Five Chairman Nader Ghermezian and other family members — including a nephew listed as a principal in Calverton Aviation & Technology — will be added as defendants in a civil racketeering lawsuit pending in the Southern District of New York, under a court order signed last week.
Community News
Discussion of potential air cargo hub in Calverton draws another crowd to civic meeting
Last night more than 100 people — 92 in person and 20 via Zoom — attended a Greater Calverton Cvic Association meeting to hear a presentation by EPCAL Watch on plans being advanced by Triple Five Group for a cargo logistics hub development at the enterprise park.
Guest Column
CAT’s EPCAL plan violates the very town ordinance it says it relies on for approval
Guest column: CAT's plan is a "nuisance" prohibited by Riverhead Town Code.
Editorial
Hey, Triple Five. We get it. Do you?
Whatever name they give Triple Five’s plan — a hub, a cog, a piece in the logistics and distribution puzzle — it’s still a place with runways where planes carrying cargo — typically 747s which, when fully loaded, weigh 89,000 pounds — would be landing. And it would generate truck traffic here the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Business
Crowd, angry about potential for cargo jets and truck traffic, blasts EPCAL developer at forum
A raucous crowd packed the Hotel Indigo meeting room beyond capacity Wednesday night to confront the Triple Five affiliate looking to build 10 million square-feet of industrial/commercial development at the Calverton Enterprise Park.