A small wholesaler of brand-name appliances in Bethpage wants to move back to Suffolk County, where it started 35 years ago, instead of to New Jersey, executives said. Imperial Sales hopes to purchase an office and warehouse at 135 Baylis Rd. in Melville for $20 million.
The 91,430-square-foot building had been home to beverage seller Keurig Dr Pepper until it moved to a newly constructed warehouse next door. Imperial has been renting an office and warehouse at 999 South Oyster Bay Rd. for more than a decade.
The property was once home to Grumman Corp. and was redeveloped into the Bethpage Business Park by the real estate firm Steel Equities with 40 years of tax breaks from the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. “Due to rising operational costs, including a substantial rent increase, we are looking to make a permanent investment .
.. by acquiring our own distribution center, which would allow us to expand,” said president and founder Danny Bindra.
“We’ve been actively looking in New Jersey and New York,” he said in a presentation to the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency with his nephew, Ben Bindra, Imperial's vice president. “We would very much like to stay on Long Island,” Danny Bindra said last month. “A bunch of our customers are here, a lot of our [vendors] are here, our employees are here, but we need your help.
” Property taxes, payroll taxes and other taxes in New Jersey, as well as employee wages, are lower than on Long Island, Bin.