But in a prepared statement he praised the project, saying that HarborCenter will bring «significant new tourist revenues to Buffalo and Erie County», as well as creating jobs which «might not have come to Erie County without incentives from governmental partners such as New York State and the Erie
County IDA.»
Officers of the Stakeholders Group's Board of Directors include: President — Sam Ferraro, Commissioner of the Niagara County Department of Economic Development and Executive Director of the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency; Vice President — Cathy Walker, President and CEO of Seneca Gaming Corporation; Secretary — Andrea Klyczek, Director of Marketing for the Niagara
County IDA; and Treasurer — Mary Whelan, General Manager of Fashion Outlets - Niagara Falls USA.
The new website, www.saratogacountyida.org, is easy to navigate, offers the operational transparency of a public authority, and promotes the Saratoga
County IDA's mission, economic development benefits, and the economic development projects it has successfully assisted since being created in 1971.
When the developer, COR, bypassed the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency and instead went to the Onondaga
County IDA, the city sued COR, saying it was going back on a previous agreement.
I think, as a matter fact, the local hiring component that the Onondaga
County IDA uses, the city modeled their own after it.
Also, I would say there's a key difference between
the county IDA and the city IDA in that we have goals for minority and women and business - owned hiring.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran «has already begun to implement reform in the Nassau
County IDA» by nominating a new IDA board, said her spokesman Michael Martino.
-- James Johnson, Steuben
County IDA
** Includes Fairport IDA, St Lawrence
County IDA, and Steuben
County IDA.
Bagley said he felt it was important to give state officials a directive to action — not just tell the Ulster
County IDA how they felt about PILOTs.
The Ulster
County IDA will hold a public hearing for Park Point's PILOT on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m., in the auditorium at New Paltz High School.
The legislature has authority over
the County IDA and had to authorize the borrowing.
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Now COR has turned to the Onondaga
County IDA for a proposed 15 - year payment in lieu of taxes to cover an estimated $ 324 million of new development around the harbor.
A 3.8 Million dollars federal disaster award was made by the Economic Development Administration to the Delaware
County IDA.
SKS and SEDC recently submitted an application to Saratoga
County IDA for a 10 Year Commercial Services PILOT — a payment in lieu of taxes — as well as sales tax and mortgage tax exemptions to facilitate the move and installation of equipment, machinery, furniture, and fixtures at the site.
«We are trying to bridge that (financial) gap,» said Steve Weathers, Erie
County IDA executive director.
Saratoga
County IDA will consider the application at its Dec. 12 meeting.
This is not the first time Delaware North has requested tax breaks from the Erie
County IDA to move their offices from one building in downtown Buffalo to another a few blocks away.
Did the tax dispute spur COR's decision to deal with
the county IDA rather than the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency?
Plus he offers an update on the county airport funding crisis, along with the search for a new director for the Chautauqua
County IDA.
Before COR applied to
the county IDA for tax breaks, the city IDA had already awarded the company $ 1.5 million in financial assistance for public infrastructure at the harbor and nearly $ 1.2 million in exemptions from sales and mortgage recording taxes on the construction of the first building, an Aloft Hotel.
Her husband's son, Terry Mannion, often does legal work for COR and is listed on company documents submitted to the Onondaga
County IDA.
The county IDA's Buffalo and Erie County Regional Development Corp. agreed to make a $ 2 million loan to TMP Technologies President Robert Laughlin and Kirk Dorn, the firm's corporate vice president, who are buying the Northland Avenue firm from current owner Jeff Dorn.
It's been six weeks since COR Development applied for a payment - in - lieu - of - tax deal from the Onondaga
County IDA.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A 2015 study by the Saratoga
County IDA found the annual Saratoga Race course meet has a $ 237 million economic impact in the Capital Region.
The rest is funded through tax incentives from the Saratoga
County IDA, totaling approximately $ 188,000.
We're speaking here of Ulster
County IDA board member Steve Perfit, this week's man - in - the - barrel in the seemingly never - ending saga of the Park Point / SUNY New Paltz student housing project.
We're speaking here of Ulster
County IDA board member Steve Perfit, this week's man - in - the - barrel in the seemingly never - ending saga of
Miner sued, saying COR promised not to seek a tax break on the project, then obtained one worth an estimated $ 44 million from
the county IDA.
The policy makes the Erie
County IDA the most aggressive in the state in pushing companies receiving tax breaks to comply with pay equity rules.
The pay equity policy, pushed by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, is intended to make sure that companies receiving tax breaks through the Erie
County IDA are complying with existing laws requiring that men and women receive equal pay for similar work.
He says the Cortland
County IDA was already using most of the policies including clawing back funds from under performing companies.
The policy, approved earlier this month by the Erie
County IDA's policy committee and sent to each of the county's IDAs for consideration, would cover for - profit senior citizen housing projects where at least 90 percent of the units are rented to, and occupied by, people who are at least 60 years old.
Moreover, Cuomo's proposal, if it had been in effect from 2010 - 2012, would have prevented support for more than 70 % of the Erie
County IDA's approved projects located in the City of Buffalo, including those such as the acclaimed Hotel @ the Lafayette.
Erie
County IDA director Al Culliton said the change will limit IDA's ability to support community redevelopment and smart growth projects.
In fact, the Niagara
County IDA has recently worked with companies including GreenPac, Franks Vacuum Truck Service, and Olin Chlor Alkali which are important to the economy of Niagara County, and relied on sales tax abatement to move these projects to successful completion.
Exactly what qualifies as a «significant number» is left to the discretion of IDA boards, said Mark Gabriele, counsel to the Niagara
County IDA.
David Zembiec is on the board of directors at the Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization and is deputy CEO of Jefferson
County IDA.
Miner filed a lawsuit this month seeking to halt the project after the Onondaga
County IDA approved tax breaks for COR Development Co., the Inner Harbor developer that acquired the land from the city.
The Saratoga
County IDA is a public benefit corporation created in 1971 to promote, develop, encourage and assist in the construction, expansion, and equipping of economically sound industrial and commercial facilities in order to advance the job opportunities, general prosperity, and economic welfare of the citizens of Saratoga County.
For several decades, the Ulster
County IDA was willing to overrule local objections to a policy its members felt were in the interests of the entire county.
COR received $ 44 million in tax exemptions from the Onondaga
County IDA.
The fund would be operated through the Regional Development Corp., or RDC, an affiliate of the Erie
County IDA, which approved the loan program during its meeting on Wednesday.
The focus now shifts to the Ulster
County IDA, which will be coming to town on Jan. 28 to hold a public hearing on Wilmorite's PILOT application for a basically «tax - free» Park Point project.
Merani and Strangio have received tax breaks worth a combined $ 9.2 million from the Niagara
County IDA.
The county IDA paid $ 787,500 in 2015 to buy the 23 - acre Roth property at 800 Hiawatha Blvd. W. from American Iron & Metal Co., which had planned to open a junkyard at the polluted site.
Mayor Stephanie Miner has not commented on COR's move to seek tax breaks from
the county IDA rather than the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency.
In hopes of bringing boats back to the Syracuse Inner Harbor, where the water depth is as little as two feet in places, the Onondaga
County IDA voted to let state canal officials dump mud dredged from the harbor on property owned by the county agency.