North Norwich business park to get overhaul
NORWICH - Responding to interest expressed by an anonymous enterprise in a parcel at the county’s Earl B. Clark Industrial Park in North Norwich, Chenango County Industrial Development Agency President Maureen Carpenter received approval from her board Wednesday to rid the area of excess rubble and have the property appraised.
“We need to clean it up if we are going to market it,” she said.
“It’s been there a long while,” IDA Chairman Hugh Kearney commented. “It’s time to get it cleaned up.”
The park has acreage available for the construction of incubator facilities. These facilities offer IDA benefits such as: below market lease rates, sales tax exemption, and is located in the Greater Norwich Empire Zone. Rivercraft Search and Rescue Airboats and American Blade Corporation are currently tenants.
Carpenter received the go ahead to get quotes for the debris removal. Some of it might involve asbestos, she said. The next step would be to revisit an environmental study completed in 2000. “We need to focus on what types of businesses we might want in there,” she said.
The study identified 10, 4 to 5 acre parcels on the 35 acre site north of OSG Norwich Pharmaceuticals and across from Rea-D-Pack Foods, Inc. The site is not yet served by municipal water and sewer systems. But plans show each lot housing a 2,500 gallon tank that would function as a typical septic system for businesses not requiring extensive waste treatment.
IDA member Tom Knapp asked whether a water and sewer system would be required for the park in the future. Carpenter said each unit would be responsible for their own services until the park’s occupancy rate increases.
In other IDA news, the board agreed to make application on behalf of Bainbridge-based Creative Energy Group, LLC for a $20,000 state sponsored Public Access Program loan. The start-up biodiesel fuel producer, located on 5-7 Scott St. in Bainbridge, must purchase a railroad spur in order to decrease its distribution expenses.
“Hopefully we will be able to get this through for them, but there’s no guarantee. It is a competitive program,” Carpenter said.
While the business anticipates creating only five jobs, and was thereby disqualified from many state economic development funding streams, Carpenter said “five jobs is five jobs.”
“We appreciate that even though the state might not view it the same way. They’ve worked hard and spent a lot of their own money to get their business off the ground,” she said.
Under old business, the board learned that the IDA would not have to take full title of the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich in order for the museum to receive Department of Environmental Conservation funding for remediation efforts required at one of its buildings.
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“We need to clean it up if we are going to market it,” she said.
“It’s been there a long while,” IDA Chairman Hugh Kearney commented. “It’s time to get it cleaned up.”
The park has acreage available for the construction of incubator facilities. These facilities offer IDA benefits such as: below market lease rates, sales tax exemption, and is located in the Greater Norwich Empire Zone. Rivercraft Search and Rescue Airboats and American Blade Corporation are currently tenants.
Carpenter received the go ahead to get quotes for the debris removal. Some of it might involve asbestos, she said. The next step would be to revisit an environmental study completed in 2000. “We need to focus on what types of businesses we might want in there,” she said.
The study identified 10, 4 to 5 acre parcels on the 35 acre site north of OSG Norwich Pharmaceuticals and across from Rea-D-Pack Foods, Inc. The site is not yet served by municipal water and sewer systems. But plans show each lot housing a 2,500 gallon tank that would function as a typical septic system for businesses not requiring extensive waste treatment.
IDA member Tom Knapp asked whether a water and sewer system would be required for the park in the future. Carpenter said each unit would be responsible for their own services until the park’s occupancy rate increases.
In other IDA news, the board agreed to make application on behalf of Bainbridge-based Creative Energy Group, LLC for a $20,000 state sponsored Public Access Program loan. The start-up biodiesel fuel producer, located on 5-7 Scott St. in Bainbridge, must purchase a railroad spur in order to decrease its distribution expenses.
“Hopefully we will be able to get this through for them, but there’s no guarantee. It is a competitive program,” Carpenter said.
While the business anticipates creating only five jobs, and was thereby disqualified from many state economic development funding streams, Carpenter said “five jobs is five jobs.”
“We appreciate that even though the state might not view it the same way. They’ve worked hard and spent a lot of their own money to get their business off the ground,” she said.
Under old business, the board learned that the IDA would not have to take full title of the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich in order for the museum to receive Department of Environmental Conservation funding for remediation efforts required at one of its buildings.
e-mail: melissad@evesun.com
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