From The Batavian's news partner, WBTA:
An announcement of a company to occupy Genesee County’s long anticipated STAMP project in the Town of Alabama could be just weeks away.
The Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park has been in the works for years and holds the prospect of hundreds, if not thousands, of high-paying jobs.
Steve Hyde is the president of the county’s Economic Development Center:
“We are weeks away on the final decision on the one we have been working on, less than weeks away. This has been over 12 months we have been working the sales process on this one project. It has been long with multiple versions and very competitive. We have competed against 54 different sites and eight states.”
Hyde issued his annual report to the county legislature’s Ways and Means Committee last night.
The committee went on record opposing a change in state industrial development regulations that would transfer final decisions on state tax breaks from local IDAs to Albany.
If you've downloaded the Reacht App for your smart phone, at some point within the next day, we'll ask you this poll question: Do you think a manufacturing company will commit to STAMP within the next few weeks? To download the app, click here.
"thousands of high paying
"thousands of high paying jobs"...you got to be kidding me.......in Alabama, N.Y. ? somebody please tell me the wage of a high paying job...If The Emperor has his way, a low paying job is going to be $10.50/ hour.
A carrot is being dangled in front of the taxpayers when someone promises 100's of jobs and the whole frigging carrot farm is dangling when promised with 1000's. I do not believe any of this non-sense. Call me what you will but the days of wishful thinking and the pep rally are over. How much is this charade going to cost Us. ?
With all the tax breaks being
With all the tax breaks being given, it will take a very long time before the taxpayers see a return on this park. And with the location of it, will new employees move to Alabama, Oakfield, Corfu or Batavia? Or will they move to Lockport and Medina?
And David makes a good point, what does "high paying" mean?
let's not forget about Route
let's not forget about Route 77 from Alabama to the Thruway entrance will need to be improved and probably widened. Anyone want to guess who pays for that. Hint it won't be the "mystery" tenant.
Howard Decker, a
Howard Decker, a Rochester-based architect and urban designer, said STAMP will repeat old mistakes and cause "enormous economic problems."
"Dwindling public services are all around us. Towns and villages are trying to merge or go broke. We have less firemen, less policemen, libraries hours are shortened, less social services can be provided, and this is a result of the fact that our taxes are so high and the services are dwindling," Decker said.
He said "it's a waste of tax money to make things in new places while we can just as easily build them in places where the infrastructure already exists."
Just maybe this is why the new Buffalo Bills stadium rejected suggestion of a site near Thruway exits 48 & 48A... ?
But, Assemblyman Hawley's friend Governor Cuomo has lots of money to pass out. Subsidize, subsidize, subsidize.
The committee went on record
The committee went on record opposing a change in state industrial development regulations that would transfer final decisions on state tax breaks from local IDAs to Albany...
Maybe if the county legislature keep a closer watch on the GCEDC then Albany wouldn't have to do it for them.. Ex..making the COR property a tourist destination...Glad to see Albany slow down these BS tax abatement's....I'm on record as for the change in state industrial development regulations ...I don't need the county talking for me..
"Officials said the site
"Officials said the site could cost $4 billion."
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/05/02/sci…
THE VISION (?) While the
THE VISION (?)
While the STAMP site is designed to include several different types of business, the ultimate goal is to attract a computer chip maker, something similar to an Intel plant in Hillsboro, Ore., which employs more than 15,000 workers who make an average of $117,000 a year.
"That's a realistic profile of what happens and certainly is the potential at STAMP," Hyde said.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/05/02/sci…