Suffolk: County Exec. Romaine Dumps JLL, Wants New Developer for Ronkonkoma

"Suffolk County has terminated Chicago real estate conglomerate JLL as master developer of the $2.8 billion Midway Crossing project on county-owned land in Ronkonkoma and plans to seek new proposals to replace the convention center and health offices complex that had been proposed for the site," reported Newsday.

"The administration of County Executive Edward P. Romaine said JLL, formerly Jones Lang LaSalle, had failed to make significant progress toward hiring staff and arranging financing for the oft-delayed project, which also would have included a hotel and a new Long Island MacArthur Airport terminal. Supporters had hailed Midway Crossing as a 'transformative' project that would create tens of thousands of jobs and redevelop county-owned parking lots at the Ronkonkoma Long Island Rail Road station."

“That project is definitely moving [forward] and it’s going to move, because for seven years it didn’t move,” Romaine told Greater Long Island. "'Suffolk County has committed [as much as $50 million] in infrastructure alone' to attract private investment."