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What's important to you?

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

Creating/saving local jobs for local workers

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Investing in our local communities

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Growing the local tax base

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Helping local businesses grow

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Supporting the next generation of workers

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Wayne County IDA

Where success starts with our support

If you want to grow your business, you won’t find a better partner than the Wayne County Industrial Development Agency (WCIDA). The WCIDA is your one-stop resource for site assistance and financial and tax incentives to accelerate your business—whether your company is small, medium or large, local or just moving to town.

We will support all aspects of your growing company, from working with public utilities to help meet your energy requirements in an efficient, economical manner, to helping you search and select productive, qualified workers.

WCIDA will do everything we can to make your expansion as smooth as possible. You will soon experience what more than 150 manufacturing firms already know: the Wayne County IDA is focused on growth and will use every resource at its command to help your business — and our community and its residents — prosper!

 

Top three industries

The Wayne County Strategic Plan for Economic Development cites agriculture and agriculture-related manufacturing; sustainable energy; optic and technology-based manufacturing; and equipment manufacturing as its targeted industry clusters. Tourism is an emerging cluster in this rural area with both Lake Ontario –the top of the Finger Lakes- and the historic Erie Canal.

 

A success story

Garlock Sealing Technologies
In 2005, with its 100-year-old manufacturing facility operating at a competitive disadvantage, Garlock Sealing Technologies looked at options for upgrading its facilities in Palmyra. These options included alternative sites outside of New York State.

The company’s private investment plus significant concessions by the local labor force leveraged $9.125 million in assistance.

All in all, there was a total investment of approximately $35 million over five years to re-build and re-equip Garlock’s facilities. This investment preserved at least 450 local manufacturing jobs.
 

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What's your IDA doing?

Between December 2007 and December 2008, companies with Payment-in-lieu-of tax agreements in place continued to create jobs, whether under a new PILOT or an aging PILOT. Although 2008 saw a challenging economic climate, particularly in the second half of the year, PILOT companies together had a net growth of jobs at 105 FTE.

 

Companies in the Empire Zone, administered by the IDA for Wayne County, saw job growth as well. The Business Annual Reports comparing 2006 full-time equivalents with 2007 saw 286.32 additional jobs. The investments tracked by Empire Zone certified companies totaled $44,279,856.33 in capital investment for 2007.