Nov. 18, 2005: “Spotlight on Our Economy” Monthly Column for The Palladium-Times
By L. Michael Treadwell, CEcD, Executive Director of Operation Oswego County

Business Expansion Center Offers Affordable Rental Space for Small Businesses

If you are looking for affordable rental space for your new or expanding non-retail, industrial or service business, you need not look further than Operation Oswego County’s small business incubator facility located on East Seneca Street in Oswego. The Oswego County Business Expansion Center (BEC) is designed to help businesses achieve significant growth and development during the first few years of business with the goal of eventually moving out of the building and into private commercial space. Space is available for lease starting at $4.50 per square foot.

The BEC is ideal for hi-tech and IT businesses as it is wired for computer and telephone network capabilities including 16 offices and three manufacturing spaces. The wiring installation is designed to support 1,000 MBPS (gigabit) in the future if needed. The building consists of 16 office spaces (about 10,000 square feet) and three factory spaces (about 9,000 square feet in total) and a receiving dock.

The BEC was established by OOC as an integral part of the Oswego Empire Zone program and potential tenants may benefit from various EZ incentives if eligible.

OOC’s other business incubator, the Start-Up Facility, is located immediately off state Route 481, exit 14 in Phoenix. The facility is currently fully leased by My Pet Enterprises, provider of My Doggy™ and My Kitty™ products for pets, and Fulton Machinery, a new tenant that manufactures machinery components for the paper, film and foil converting and paper making industries.

If you’re interested in leasing space in BEC, call my office at 343-1545. Information is also available at www.oswegocounty.org/incubators.html.

In other economic development news, Precision Wood Flooring Products is a new company that will manufacture high quality, pre-finished flooring to be sold to national and international distributors. The company will acquire the 200,000-square-foot former Jefferson-Smurfit plant in the town of Volney. The project will create 54 jobs and will receive funding assistance from the County of Oswego Industrial Development Agency.

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