The construction work on the $90 million, 82,000-square-foot facility started in June, Tim Winters, project manager for COR Development Company, LLC, said in remarks to reporters on Friday morning.
He spoke at the Collamer Crossings Business Park near the construction site for the Soraa facility.
The office of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney invited the media to learn more about the project.
Soraa plans to relocate its manufacturing and research and development operations from and create 420 jobs.
Besides COR, Albany–based EYP Architecture & Engineering provided the design work on the project.
Albany–based CHA, a design and construction firm, handled the civil design work. Cork, Ireland–based DPS Engineering is handling the engineering work on the project.
Construction is on pace for shell completion by the end of this year with production beginning in the second half of 2016, the office Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news release posted to his website on Thursday.
MACNY statement
Randall Wolken, president and CEO of the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY), on Thursday released a statement welcoming Soraa to the local manufacturing community.
“On behalf of MACNY and the regional manufacturing community, I would like to both congratulate and welcome SORAA to New York State, as one of the newest members of our thriving and growing high tech manufacturing community. You decision to invest here in Central New York was a wise one: with our strong manufacturing roots, our skilled and growing workforce and our high tech industry community of manufacturers and businesses, SORAA will not only thrive here, but it will be a welcome addition to our world class high-tech manufacturing sector, that of which remains the backbone to our State’s growing economy.”
Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com
PHOTO CAPTION: COR Development Company, LLC continues its work on the 82,000-square-foot facility that will house Soraa, an LED lighting company relocating from California to DeWitt. The construction site is in the Collamer Crossings Business Park off Route 298 in DeWitt and near the CNY Hub for Emerging Nano Technologies. (Eric Reinhardt / BJNN)