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NUAIR Alliance hires airworthiness manager
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The NUAIR Alliance today announced the hiring of Cady Kepler, Jr. of Chittenango as its new airworthiness manager. NUAIR Alliance is short
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — The Greater Watertown – North Country (GWNC) Chamber of Commerce today announced the renewal of funding through the U.S. Department of Defense
IPD: Engineering expands with new department, employees
SYRACUSE — IPD: Engineering, a Syracuse–based engineering firm, had been working to add a structural-engineering department since opening its doors nearly five years ago. The firm’s customer base “typically has a need” for structural engineering, says Sam Cosamano, president and co-owner of IPD: Engineering. The firm on Aug. 25 announced the addition of a structural
New York Air Brake, Bendix to launch mechatronics laboratory at RIT
WATERTOWN — A Watertown firm and its Ohio–based sister company are working with an Upstate school on a new engineering-laboratory initiative. New York Air Brake, LLC (NYAB) and Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC have created the Knorr-Bremse North America Mechatronics Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The laboratory, which opens this fall and
Improvements planned on Romanelli building in Clinton
CLINTON — Work is scheduled to start in early September on the building in the village of Clinton that’s home to Romanelli Communications, a marketing-communications firm. A trust in the name of the Romanelli family owns the structure at 2-4 College St. at the intersection with Park Row, according to a news release the Romanelli
Ascent Wealth Partners expands into Southern Tier with Elmira office
ELMIRA — Utica–based Ascent Wealth Partners has expanded into the Southern Tier region with a new employee and new office in Elmira. The firm has hired Douglas Bissonette as a managing director to head up a 500-square-foot leased office at 250 E. Water St., located near the Chemung River in downtown Elmira. Bissonette will focus
New tenant arrives at Lyndale Commercial Park
SALINA — A new tenant at the Lyndale Commercial Park puts the facility, once home to Syracuse China, at just over 90 percent capacity, but there is still plenty of room for further development on the 55-acre parcel. River Valley Paper Company — a manager, processor, and exporter of waste paper headquartered in Akron, Ohio
CenterState CEO, Preservation League call for saving federal historic tax credit
SYRACUSE — CenterState CEO is joining the Preservation League of New York State in pushing Congress to renew and enhance the federal historic tax credit, which some lawmakers have targeted for elimination. The credit, which economic developers see as a tool in revitalization projects, is “at risk of elimination” as part of an effort to
National nonresidential construction index dips in Q3
A national measure of nonresidential construction activity declined in the third quarter compared to the second quarter as rising costs took a toll. That’s according to the recently released “2014 Third Quarter Nonresidential Construction Index (NRCI)” from FMI Corp., a provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry. The
BC Surf & Sport opens 7,700-square-foot store at Destiny
SYRACUSE — Central New York snowboarders, skateboarders, and those interested in trying surfing have a new outlet for their hobby. BC Surf & Sport, an action-sports retailer, opened a 7,700-square-foot store on the first level of Destiny USA on Aug. 15. The shop is situated near Eastern Mountain Sports, under the mall’s food court. “Central New
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