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Canon U.S.A. Inc., Lake Success, N.Y., filed site plans in July with the Town of Huntington for a new headquarters facility that will serve as the corporate headquarters for Canon Americas, overseeing more than 10,000 employees in 23 affiliate companies across North, Central, and South Americas. The new Canon Americas headquarters will be built on a 52-acre site in Melville, N.Y., and will attain at least a Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) status.

  On June 4, 2007, Canon U.S.A. announced it had finalized an agreement to purchase land in Melville to build a new corporate headquarters and remain on Long Island. The site for the new Canon Americas headquarters is located just off of the Long Island Expressway, at Exit 49. The site is bordered by the Long Island Expressway service road on the North and Walt Whitman Road on the East.

  Canon currently employs more than 1,000 on Long Island and leases office space in Lake Success. The site plan filed this month calls for a 690,000-square-foot, five-story building on a park-like setting with reflecting pools, along with other sustainable innovations such as the use of natural lighting and energy efficient materials.

  Eventually, Canon U.S.A. will grow its workforce to 2,500 employees at the new headquarters. It is currently anticipated that the new facility will be completed by the end of 2010, subject to a timely approval process.