Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Sysco settles on Central Islip

David Winzelberg //May 7, 2009 //

Sysco settles on Central Islip

David Winzelberg //May 7, 2009 //

Listen to this article

The nation’s largest food-service company has purchased a 526,000 square foot industrial property on about 46 acres in Central Islip for $30 million, according to a source.

Houston-based Systems and Services Co., better known as Sysco was to build a 375,000-square-foot distribution center and headquarters in Yaphank, but will now build it at 199 Lowell Avenue in Central Islip after the existing building is demolished.  The building, which had been owned by a private investor, formerly housed another food distributor, C&S Wholesale Grocers.

Sysco plans to incorporate locally, becoming Sysco Food Services of Long Island, and bring 300 new jobs. The company distributes products to nearly 400,000 restaurants and institutions. It has local offices in Jersey City, upstate New York and Rocky Hill, Conn., outside Hartford.

Frank Frizalone of Cushman & Wakefield’s Melville office represented Sysco in the purchase.