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ENV Insurance Agency is doubling its space in Clay

Ed Vaughn (left) and Terry Engels (right), senior partners and co-owners of ENV Insurance Agency, plan to add a 5,000-square-foot space to their existing 5,000-square-foot building at 7789 Oswego Road in the town of Clay. (Eric Reinhardt/BJNN)

CLAY — ENV Insurance Agency is adding a 5,000-square-foot space to its existing 5,000-square-foot building at 7789 Oswego Road (Route 57) in the town of Clay to accommodate its business growth. ENV is a provider of employee-benefit programs, property and casualty insurance, home and auto insurance, and other financial services. “We’re growing,” says Ed Vaughn, […]

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CLAY — ENV Insurance Agency is adding a 5,000-square-foot space to its existing 5,000-square-foot building at 7789 Oswego Road (Route 57) in the town of Clay to accommodate its business growth.

ENV is a provider of employee-benefit programs, property and casualty insurance, home and auto insurance, and other financial services.

“We’re growing,” says Ed Vaughn, a senior partner and co-owner of the firm. “Our space that we’re currently in … no longer meets our needs. We need more space.”

The firm is working with “a lot more” business clients that self-fund their employee-benefit programs. The agency needs more client-services employees and more people in its call center, according to Vaughn.

The addition will include a conference center that the firm can use for client meetings and for education webinars and seminars on human resources and financial topics. Its clients can also use the space for meetings and conferences, says Vaughn.

ENV has about 40 employees. It plans to hire up to 12 additional people through 2019, according to Vaughn.

The firm services about 1,400 clients, both locally and nationally, he adds.

ENV decided to pursue the expansion project in January of this year. The firm owns the land where crews are building the addition.

DeWitt–based Whelan & Curry Construction Services, Inc. started work on the 5,000-square-foot addition after the Labor Day holiday and ENV hopes to occupy the structure by the end of November.

Whelan & Curry is handling both the project design and construction, according to Terry Engels, senior partner and co-owner of the firm. Both Vaughn and Engels spoke to CNYBJ on Sept. 10.

It’s a $1.1 million project, which ENV is funding with a combination of its own cash and a loan from M&T Bank.

ENV Insurance Agency is one of three entities under the ENV brand. The others are ENV Financial Services, which “falls under” ENV Insurance Agency, according to Vaughn. The third entity, ENV Property & Casualty, LLC, is “a separate company,” he added.

ENV Property & Casualty operates in a nearby building at 7787 Oswego Road in the town of Clay.

Eric Reinhardt