Islip backs Hummus Fit’s $19 million Islandia food plant expansion

A $19 million Hummus Fit expansion could deepen Islandia’s role in Suffolk County’s food-production economy, as Islip backed a 51,000-square-foot plant at 1800 Motor Parkway that would build on the company’s existing shop at 14 Central Avenue.

The project matters because it puts more industrial activity in the middle of a busy commercial corridor, where every new food-production site can mean more delivery traffic, more supplier spending and a larger local tax base if the building performs as planned. It also raises the standard Islip tradeoff: how much public support should go into helping a growing private company expand, and what the town gets back in jobs, long-term assessed value and reuse of industrial space.

Hummus Fit is not an outside chain dropping into Suffolk for the first time. The company already operates 22 locations and has positioned itself as a Long Island-based meal prep service with ready-to-eat meals tailored to diets including keto, vegan and gluten-free. Its website identifies Tony and Liana Mavruk as the husband-and-wife team behind the business, and the brand has kept its local identity front and center even as it has widened its footprint.

That growth has been visible on the ground. The company opened a Miller Place location in March 2026, a move that marked its 14th Long Island store and underscored how quickly the brand has moved from a niche meal-prep concept to a regional food business with multiple outlets. The Islandia project would take that model a step further by shifting more of the operation into a larger production facility rather than just another storefront.

Islip’s Office of Economic Development says it helps companies identify relocation or expansion sites, fast-track permits and access economic programs. The Town of Islip Industrial Development Agency, established in 1974, says its mission is to promote business facilities and job opportunities. In practice, that means inducement resolutions like the one supporting Hummus Fit are often the opening move in a larger package of public incentives for qualifying projects.

For Islip, the real test is whether the Islandia expansion becomes a meaningful economic gain or another routine subsidy-backed deal. If Hummus Fit keeps adding Long Island locations and concentrates more production in Suffolk, the payoff could extend beyond a single plant to a stronger local food-manufacturing corridor.