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THE BLUEPRINT:

  • Ultra Bright Lightz purchases 12,000-sq-ft Holbrook industrial building.

  • Company relocates from Hauppauge to support growing emergency lighting demand.

  • Business founded in a West Islip backyard now employs 12 and expands product lines.

 

When a teenaged Justin Tomney began his business in a wooden shed in his parents’ West Islip backyard, he couldn’t have imagined what his real estate needs would eventually become. 

Now, Tomney’s company, Ultra Bright Lightz, a supplier of emergency lighting, is the new owner of a Holbrook industrial property, where it has plenty of room to grow. 

Light bars for construction and emergency vehicles are featured in Ultra Bright Lightz product line. / Courtesy of Ultra Bright Lightz

The lighting firm purchased a 12,000-square-foot building on 1 acre at 1401 Lincoln Ave. for $3 million. The company is relocating from about 8,000 square feet it had been leasing at 40 Oser Ave. in Hauppauge. 

Ultra Bright had a humble beginning. After dabbling in sales of assorted products on E-bay, Tomney turned on to the lighting business when he was still a student at West Islip High School, making his own LED light strips with parts sourced from hardware and home improvement stores. 

Though he had set out to become a CPA and graduated from Dowling College, Tomney had his lightbulb moment, deciding to concentrate on his fledgling business. 

“It started growing,” he told LIBN, “and I saw its potential.” 

Ultra Bright Lightz left the backyard shed for leased space in Deer Park before moving to Hauppauge in 2019. This month, he’s setting up shop in his new Holbrook digs. The company founder and CEO sees the expansion as an opportunity. 

“We can keep up with demand, expand our product line and have some room to grow,” Tomney said. 

Ultra Bright Lightz, which has been in business since 2006, supplies emergency lighting equipment for first responders and the public safety sector. The company, which has grown to 12 employees, offers a wide range of LED warning lights, police sirens, speakers, controllers and its best-selling plug-and-play vehicle flasher modules, which Tomney helped create. 

Ultra Bright Lightz sells its products directly to consumers, as well as to fire departments and government agencies.  

Alberto Fiorini and Niko Khetaguri of Alliance Real Estate represented Ultra Bright Lightz, while Andrew Blumenthal of Metro Realty Services represented the seller, Ellenwood Realty Company LLC, in the Holbrook sales transaction. 


David Winzelberg

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