IDA News | Your Local IDA

IDA's have a wide range of influences in your local community. Which focus area is most important to you?

Poll Results

Creating/saving local jobs for local workers

Very Important

72%

Somewhat Important

Not Important

24%

Investing in our local communities

Very Important

71%

Somewhat Important

Not Important

23%

Growing the local tax base

Very Important

60%

Somewhat Important

15%

Not Important

25%

Helping local businesses grow

Very Important

69%

Somewhat Important

Not Important

24%

Supporting the next generation of workers

Very Important

62%

Somewhat Important

12%

Not Important

26%

Latest IDA News

Prevailing wage issue dogs IDAs

Wed, April 22, 2009

Legislation to require paying prevailing wages on projects financed by public industrial development agencies would significantly increase construction costs and discourage private-sector investment, upstate officials said Tuesday.

Greater Rochester Enterprise takes stand on issue of IDAs, wage rates

Sun, April 19, 2009

Greater Rochester Enterprise doesn't usually get involved in legislative matters. But in the contentious issue of IDAs and wage rates, the economic development organization is making an exception.

George W. Walker III: IDA wage ‘reform’ undermines region’s prospects

Wed, April 15, 2009

The Buffalo News Opinion

Craig W. Turner: State must drop job-killing wage mandates proposal

Wed, April 15, 2009

The Buffalo News Opinion

Legislative Gazette

Wed, April 1, 2009

Central New York IDA Special Section

Legislative Gazette

Wed, April 1, 2009

IDA Special Section

Letters to the editor

Wed, March 25, 2009

DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE -- IDA RESTRICTIONS WILL PREVENT PROGRESS

Bravo to the Democrat and Chronicle for the March 20 editorial on IDA restrictions ("Albany meddling"). What should be of concern in a state such as New York, with its rapidly aging population and a dire need to reduce its dependence on Medicaid spending for senior care, is the availability of low-cost Industrial Development Agency financing.
—CARL YOUNG

What Proposed State Law is Making Businesses Nervous

Wed, March 25, 2009

WROC-TV --A proposal in Albany has local industrial development agencies worried.

Steve Hyde of the Genesee County Economic Development Center and Mark Peterson of Greater Rochester Enterprise joined Katrina Irwin to talk about it on this week's Talk It Up Rochester.
For more information, click on the video.

Editorial: Reform IDAs, don't kill them

Mon, March 23, 2009

The Daily News -- Under proposed state legislation, the working man would get a good wage -- the so-called prevailing wage, which is considerably higher than market wage in Genesee, Wyoming and Orleans counties -- for working on any projects brought about with help from county industrial development agencies.

Local IDA officials say proposed state law 'handcuffs' them

Fri, March 20, 2009

The Daily News -- A proposed law under consideration this year by the state Legislature, if enacted, could mean the end of industrial development agencies and job-creation initiatives they sponsor, the chief economic development officials from Genesee, Wyoming and Orleans counties said Thursday.

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Dundee Foods

In 2004, Dundee Foods invested $1.3 million to renovate and begin production at an abandoned 20-acre campus. The 160,000-square-foot facility provided the perfect setup to produce and store many types of food and beverage products. It includes a large freezer, cooler, production area and warehouse space.

Since renovating the site, Dundee Foods has continued to expand its production lines within the facility and recently added a distilled spirits operation and a new organic line. The Dundee Foods location employs 30 full-time workers and is the Village of Dundee’s largest private-sector employer.