University Support Services signs new LI lease

Remember the U.S. invasion of the island of Grenada? President Ronald Reagan said at the time that the October 1983 invasion was to rescue American medical students at St. George's University after the country's prime minister was overthrown in a violent coup.

Even if you are among a declining number of people who remember all that, you may not have known that the medical school is run out of Long Island.

This past week, University Support Services, which conducts business in the United States on behalf of the university, reaffirmed its roots here, signing a 13-year lease for 50,000 square feet at the Sunrise Business Center complex in Great River. USS is currently in Bay Shore.

USS will locate 180 employees to the center later this year.

The center, once a Grumman electronics facility and later a facility that tried to attract only technology companies, is now occupied by Aetna Life Insurance Co., Motorola, Schoenfeld Securities and the Suffolk County Department of Social Services' medical division.

The building is owned by Metropolitan Realty Associates. Eric Launer of Newmark Knight Frank's Melville office, along with NKF director Dan Oliver, represented the tenant. Eric Englander of Metropolitan Realty, and CB Richard Ellis, represented the landlord.