Brookhaven Planning Board Unanimously Approves 285 Apartments, Medical Offices at Station Yards

Brookhaven Town board members, sitting as the planning board, voted 7-0 Feb. 17, 2026 to approve Tritec Real Estate’s Phase 2C of Station Yards: roughly 285 apartments and 30,000 square feet of medical office space in three new buildings on a 6.72‑acre site on Carroll Avenue between Union and Railroad avenues. Construction is slated to begin this spring, and Tritec says the phase will be built in stages over a 27‑month schedule, with mobilization and staging expected along Carroll Avenue north of the Long Island Rail Road tracks.

Phase 2C is part of the larger Station Yards master plan, a roughly $1.2 billion, 53‑acre redevelopment stretching from Ronkonkoma Avenue east to Mill Road that when complete is expected to deliver up to 1,450 apartments, 195,000 square feet of retail and 360,000 square feet of office space over about a decade. The project has already produced The Alston, a 489‑unit complex completed in 2020, and has preceded “hundreds more housing units and about a dozen businesses” opening near Hawkins Avenue, changing a former industrial strip into a transit‑oriented node near the Ronkonkoma LIRR station.

Tritec executive vice president and partner Jimmy Coughlan told town officials after the vote that the company is in talks to lease the new medical office space to a tenant he declined to identify and that Phase 2C will proceed in staged construction over 27 months once work begins this spring. A rendering of the three proposed buildings, showing the 285 apartments and medical office space, is credited to Spector Companies.

The Carroll Avenue parcel sits directly north of the Ronkonkoma train station tracks, and the approved plan concentrates new residential and medical-office square footage along Union and Railroad avenues. Residents, commuters who use the Ronkonkoma station and businesses along Hawkins Avenue should expect construction traffic and staging during mobilization and throughout the phased buildout; Tritec and town planners have indicated the work will create additional construction and retail jobs as past Station Yards phases have done.

Several details remain to be finalized for Phase 2C: Tritec and the planning board have not released a unit‑mix breakdown for the 285 apartments, building heights or parking counts, nor have they identified any affordable or workforce housing set‑asides for this phase. The exact contractor, permit milestones, environmental mitigation measures and the calendar date for initial site mobilization have not been disclosed publicly and are items residents and civic groups may want to raise at upcoming planning‑board meetings.

The Town of Brookhaven has seen other recent approvals: in Coram the town approved a $20 million, 72‑unit apartment project at 1710 Route 112 developed by Nelin Real Estate Management, with 10 percent of units designated workforce housing and an expected 24‑month build timeline. Those separate local approvals underscore ongoing housing and commercial activity across the town while Station Yards continues its multi‑phase transformation of Ronkonkoma.