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WESTHAMPTON, NY-The Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Workforce Housing has retained Newmark Knight Frank to create a request for proposals for a 58-acre site here. The county wants to solicit lease development proposals for as much as one million sf of development.

The site is at Gabreski Industrial Park at the county's Francis S. Gabreski Airport. Jack O'Connor, principal and director, National Industrial Practice Group, along with Chuck Tabone, SIOR, managing principal and Brian Lee, executive managing director of Newmark Knight Frank's Melville office, are now working on drafting the RFP. They expect work to be completed in March.

Suffolk County officials would like to see a high-tech/homeland security economic hub at the airport. "They also stated that defense and communications firms and other low impact technology companies might find the property attractive," O'Connor says. "There is a definite need for industrial in the area." He notes that the site would not be rezoned.