Feb. 10, 2010: Cleaning Service
Expands, Relocates
OSWEGO, NY—Davis Cleaning
Service, LLC (DCS), a woman-owned business specializing in commercial
janitorial services, has relocated to Walgate Commons from the Oswego
County Business Expansion Center (BEC), both in the city of Oswego.
Owner Anne Davis began operating DCS out
of her garage in 2002 with one commercial account. By 2005, Davis’
daughters Niki Hilton and Julie Anne Winklestine became partners
in the business which had grown to include several clients and a
need for more space.
“As we built our customer base and
diversified our services, we found that we really needed to relocate
to a larger space where we could store our equipment. The BEC was
a great place for us to grow our business because we could have
a space to house our equipment and set up a small office with affordable
rent and a convenient location,” Davis said.
The BEC is owned and managed by Operation
Oswego County (OOC), Oswego County’s designated economic development
organization. The facility offers affordable rental space for fledgling
non-retail, industrial and service businesses designed to help them
achieve significant growth and development during the first few
years of business with the intention of eventually moving out of
the building and into private commercial space. The building is
wired for computer and telephone network capabilities and consists
of about 10,000 square feet of office space, 9,000 square feet of
manufacturing space and a shipping/receiving dock. In addition to
the BEC, OOC also operates another small business incubator, the
Start-Up Facility, in the Oswego County Industrial Park in the town
of Schroeppel. The 10,000 square foot building has three receiving
docks, and is located immediately off state Route 481, exit 14.
According to Davis, the company has doubled
its business over the past two years and now employs 20 full and
part-time employees. DCS now provides cleaning services for more
than 55 commercial buildings on a regular basis and more than 50
on an occasional basis throughout Oswego, Onondaga and Jefferson
Counties. DCS also services accounts in Binghamton, Albany and Pennsylvania.
Services offered now include commercial cleaning
for office, industrial, medical and banking facilities, carpet cleaning,
rest room sanitation, construction clean-up, special event service,
home and apartment move-outs, emergency cleaning and floor maintenance.
The company also provides residential cleaning services and specialty
services such as painting, upholstery repair and other minor maintenance
repairs.
Expansion plans include the addition of a new bathrooms-only cleaning
service for residential and commercial customers.
“There are a lot of people that
are interested in only having their bathrooms cleaned either because
this is not a favorite task, or that’s all they need done
on a regular basis. This is truly a niche business that we’ve
discovered has great growth potential,” Davis said.
“We are now leasing a space
at Walgate Commons that accommodates our increased need to do laundry,
store more equipment and has parking just for the business vehicles.
It is also easier for us to load and unload equipment,” she
said.
DCS is also hoping to increase its staff
in order to accommodate its growing business.
“We are looking for ambitious, flexible
and, most of all, dependable people that are available nights and
weekends. We offer healthcare and other benefits and will train
new employees,” Davis said.
“Davis Cleaning Service’s success
is an example of the incubator facilities operating the way they
are designed to,” said L. Michael Treadwell, CEcD, executive
director of OOC. “The goal of the incubators is to help businesses
grow during the first few years of business and then move into private
commercial space. It’s especially positive that this company
remained in Oswego County and we wish them continued success.”
For more information about Davis Cleaning
Services, contact Anne Davis at 315-447-6428.
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