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Greater Binghamton Chamber celebrates 2023 Building BC Award winners

Charlie Randall, president of McIntosh Labs, poses with the Building BC Innovative Award. (PHOTO CREDIT: Greater Binghamton Chamber)

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce awarded its 2023 Building BC Awards at its annual economic forecast event on Feb. 14. This year’s Building BC Innovative Award — which recognizes a product, project, or service that thinks outside the box — went to McIntosh Labs. Founded in 1951, the Binghamton company produces […]

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce awarded its 2023 Building BC Awards at its annual economic forecast event on Feb. 14.

This year’s Building BC Innovative Award — which recognizes a product, project, or service that thinks outside the box — went to McIntosh Labs. Founded in 1951, the Binghamton company produces luxury home-audio products. Charlie Randall, McIntosh Labs president, accepted the award.

Pritchard Development Corporation won the Building BC Restorative Award, which honors a project that brings new life into an aging building. Brett Pritchard, company founder and president, accepted the award. Pritchard’s company has worked since 2020 to revitalize properties at 33 S. Washington St. and 39 S. Washington St. in Binghamton.

The Building BC Transformative Award recognizes a project that impacts the entire community and fosters growth around it. BAE Systems received the award for its work in innovating low-emission and zero-emission technology like the hybrid-electric buses that Broome County Transit currently uses and the battery electric buses it soon will deploy. Rob Dykema, North American transit accounts director at BAE Systems, accepted the award.

David and Karen Sobotka were the recipients of this year’s Building BC Individual Award, which honors individuals whose investment positively impacts the quality of life and job growth in the community. The Sobotkas own the Binghamton Rumble Ponies baseball team and recently signed a 23-year lease agreement with the city. Upgrades at Mirabito Stadium are already visible, and Binghamton was recently ranked by Wallethub as the third-best small city for baseball in the nation.

For more information on this year’s winners of the Building BC Awards, visit: https://greaterbinghamtonchamber.com/congratulations-to-our-2023-building-bc-award-winners/

Traci DeLore