Our History
Where we came from and where we're going...
Through the Years
Broadway National, a family-owned and operated company with humble beginnings, was established by William Paparella in his parent’s garage in 1989. The company, then called Broadway Neon Sign Corp. (“Broadway Neon”) started off by manufacturing neon signs for Long Island businesses. Shortly after the business’ inception, Broadway Neon moves from the Paparella family garage to its first commercial location in Central Islip, NY.
Broadway Neon expands to include interior and exterior commercial signage with greater capabilities. The company twice re-locates into larger spaces to accommodate its rapid development. Broadway Neon wins its first contracts with region-wide retailers: Jiffy Lube, P.C. Richard & Sons, and Liberty Travel, and soon obtains its first nationwide service accounts—Jos. A Bank Clothiers and Levi’s—which helps pave the path for further expansion. Broadway Neon changes its name to Broadway National Sign & Lighting (“Broadway NS&L”), in recognition of the company’s additional lighting and electrical services.
Broadway NS&L adds a 24/7 emergency service team and completes several national multi-million-dollar projects including NY’s Citi Field, Reuters Corporate HQ, Radio City Music Hall, and FL’s Universal’s Motown Café, and the Fashion Mall in NV.
Capabilities grow to include national sign, lighting, and electrical roll-out projects resulting in rebranding’s for Citibank, Dave & Busters, and Loews Theaters. Broadway NS&L invests in a construction division to accommodate large scope projects, develops a wholesale lighting team for energy-efficient retrofit programs, and adds plumbing, HVAC, handyman, and carpentry repairs to the maintenance division.
In 2007 Broadway NS&L becomes Broadway National Group (“Broadway”), and in 2007, BEST is developed—Broadway’s proprietary software system and one of the original CMMS technology platforms in the industry.
Broadway continues to grow its industry footprint by onboarding 200+ national corporations, retailers, restaurants, and financial institutions. This encourages the company to invest more in its field operations, technology, and account management capabilities.
Broadway further expands, establishing offices and trusted partners from Florida to Arizona, while also expanding its self-performance capabilities. To support continued growth, Broadway moves into a newly renovated, green, state-of-the-art, 65,000 square-foot facility.
As the world economics and marketplace continues to evolve, Broadway has focused on its future expansion and advancements as a company. We continue to further our investments into a 360° business model in which we handle all our clients’ needs, rather than just a few. This includes development of a newly designed, innovative CMMS technology platform, Umbrava, and expanding our construction capabilities for larger scale projects.
What We Do
We customize essential facilities services to fit each client’s individual needs and deliver tangible results in cost reduction, operational efficiencies, minimizing risks, and protecting your brand.
Our project managers leverage their expertise to strategize and coordinate construction and closeout phases of projects, with a focus on quality, achieving objectives, and establishing open communication and transparency.
We provide turnkey signage and brand implementation solutions to ensure your brand always looks its best, no matter the environment. We leverage our nearly 35 years of experience to ensure total project satisfaction.
With a clear understanding of what facility managers, vendors, and service providers require, we developed the next generation in software, built to customize the users experience, improve efficiencies, manage assets, and provide real time reporting.
Our client dedicated account management teams focus on achieving the clients facility and project management goals, and becoming effective extensions of their own teams in order to foster long-term relationships.
We customize essential facilities services to fit each client’s individual needs and deliver tangible results in cost reduction, operational efficiencies, minimizing risks, and protecting your brand.
Who We Serve
Our comprehensive portfolio of facility management services is customized to match the specialized needs of your industry with a firm understanding of the challenges you face.