Station Yards update: Construction to begin this spring, part of new phase in Ronkonkoma

Construction will start this spring as part of the next stage of Ronkonkoma’s $1.2 billion Station Yards project, an executive for the developer said, after Brookhaven Town officials approved hundreds of additional apartments and medical office space.

The town board, acting as the planning board, voted 7-0 Thursday to approve Tritec Real Estate’s plan to add 285 apartments and 30,000 square feet of medical offices in three new buildings on a 6.72-acre parcel on Carroll Avenue between Union and Railroad avenues.

The massive Station Yards development is under construction in a former industrial area on the north side of Long Island Rail Road tracks near the hamlet’s train station.

The next phase — Tritec calls it Phase 2C — will be completed in stages over a 27-month period, Tritec executive vice president and partner Jimmy Coughlan said in an interview after the vote.

He said the company is in talks to lease medical offices to a tenant he declined to identify.

Station Yards has been praised by residents and civic leaders for transforming a blighted section of Ronkonkoma by adding hundreds of new apartments, shops and restaurants while creating thousands of construction and retail jobs.

When it is completed in about a decade, it is expected to have up to 1,450 apartments, 195,000 square feet of retail and 360,000 square feet of office space, Newsday has previously reported.

The development is being built in phases on 53 acres stretching from Ronkonkoma Avenue east to Mill Road. The first, a 489-unit apartment complex called The Alston, was completed in 2020. Hundreds more housing units and about a dozen businesses have opened near Hawkins Avenue.

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