Long Island business and civic leaders will join local elected officials Tuesday morning for a panel discussion on the ongoing and future redevelopment in Ronkonkoma.

The event, called Ronkonkoma Rising, will focus on two projects: the $1 billion proposal to build an arena and convention center complex on about 40 acres between the Ronkonkoma Long Island Rail Road station and MacArthur Airport and the $650 million mixed-use project from Tritec Real Estate currently under construction on about 50 acres on the north side of the station.

At full build-out, Tritec’s redevelopment is slated to include 1,450 residential units, 195,000 square feet of retail space and 360,000 square feet of office/commercial space.

On the other side of the tracks, Suffolk County and the Town of Islip are working on a proposal from JLL and a Chicago-based investment group called Ronkonkoma Vision Project that would create an arena, a convention center, 360,000 square feet of office space, a 500-room hotel and 90,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. The redevelopment of the property has been supported by the Ronkonkoma Civic Association, which conducted a visioning of the site with the Regional Plan Association that began in 2016.

Long Island Business News Editor and Associate Publisher Joe Dowd will serve as moderator for the panel that includes John Cameron, principal of Woodbury-based Cameron Engineering; Suffolk Legis. Tom Cilmi; Bruce Edwards, a past president of the Ronkonkoma Civic Association and chairman of the Ronkonkoma Visioning Implementation Committee; Mitch Pally, CEO of Long Island Builders Institute; and Suffolk Legis. Robert Trotta.

The breakfast event, hosted by LIBN, takes place Tuesday, May 22 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Villa Lombardi’s at 877 Main St. in Holbrook.