VIDEO: $30M Mason Technologies Headquarters Breaks Ground In Hauppauge Innovation Park

HAUPPAUGE, NY — Mason Technologies broke ground Tuesday on a new $30 million headquarters in the Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge.

The new facility, to open next year, is expected to further grow the company’s workforce and serve as a collaborative hub for businesses across the region.

Founded in 2002 by Islip Terrace and Ronkonkoma native Jennifer Mason and later joined by her husband Adam, the company specializes in structured cabling, audio-visual systems, data centers and security integration for clients across multiple industries nationwide.

“It provides Long Islanders an opportunity to work in a high-tech industry, and it’s great to have it right here in Hauppauge in Suffolk County," said Babylon Town Councilman Anthony Manetta.

The company is currently headquartered in Deer Park and has offices in New York City, the Carolinas and Florida while handling projects nationwide and internationally.

The company has already surpassed its initial job-growth commitment tied to the project. While the company originally pledged to add 25 new positions within two years, Adam said its workforce has already expanded from roughly 235 employees to 275 employees since the deal was finalized.

“This is an overwhelming moment for us and for the history of Mason Technologies,” Adam Mason said. “We could not have done it without the wonderful people at Mason, our Mason family.”

The ceremony drew more than 100 attendees, including dozens of employees, elected officials and economic development leaders, including Ed Romaine, Terri Alessi-Miceli and Ed Wehrheim.

“We are business friendly, and we will move projects because we understand that at our level of government, time is money,” Wehrheim said of Smithtown.

Officials said the project points to signs Long Island can still attract and retain growing businesses despite rising costs and competition from other states.

“I welcome people to Suffolk County that will create jobs and economic opportunity,” Romaine said. “Come to Suffolk. This is where hard work pays off. I am encouraging some of the businesses to the west of here not to look at Florida. Don’t look at Texas. Come to Suffolk County.”

The Long Island Innovation Park at Hauppauge is the second-largest industrial park in the nation behind Silicon Valley, according to officials. The park includes approximately 1,300 companies, 55,000 employees and billions in annual economic output.

“You have just added another $30 million investment,” Alessi-Miceli said of the Masons’ expansion. “We can’t thank you enough.”

Jennifer and Adam Mason said they spent years searching for the right headquarters location across Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester before deciding to stay in Suffolk County because they wanted to keep the company local.

Jennifer Mason reflected on founding the business after leaving pediatric nursing due to a back injury, saying her experiences working in hospitals inspired her to improve technology infrastructure environments.

“Sometimes you lose in the beginning, and it’s a learning process,” she said of starting a business. “It does not come with a manual.”

While working in hospitals early in her nursing career, she said she noticed unsafe and poorly managed cabling infrastructure inside medical facilities. The experience inspired the company she would later build.

“When I first started nursing, I actually relocated one of the first wings to a new wing,” she said. “In that experience, I actually noticed all the cabling and the unsterile environment that they were keeping in the hospital, and it always stuck with me to try to do better.”

The company’s early work in hospitals helped shape both its business model and culture, she said, eventually growing into a national technology integration company with offices outside New York while still maintaining Long Island as its home base.

“Suffolk County, Long Island, is home to some of the greatest people and brightest talent in the country,” Adam Mason said. “This is my wife’s baby, and I am so proud to steward that towards the future.”