CenterState CEO plans to move to Pike Block by late summer

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SYRACUSE — CenterState CEO, the area’s major business and economic-development group, says it will relocate to the Pike Block project in downtown Syracuse by late summer. The group, which has more than 2,000 members, is currently housed at the former Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce building at 572 S. Salina St. The chamber and the […]

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SYRACUSE — CenterState CEO, the area’s major business and economic-development group, says it will relocate to the Pike Block project in downtown Syracuse by late summer.

The group, which has more than 2,000 members, is currently housed at the former Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce building at 572 S. Salina St. The chamber and the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York (MDA) merged to form CenterState CEO in 2010.

“We’ve been contemplating the possibility of relocating since we merged the two organizations,” CenterState CEO President Robert Simpson says. “We knew that we had more space than we needed in that building. It’s been on our radar screen.”

The 130,000-square-foot Pike Block project involves four adjacent structures: the Chamberlin Building, Witherill Building, Wilson Building, and Bond Building. The $25 million development is located at the corner of South Salina and West Fayette streets.

VIP Development Associates, the development arm of VIP Structures of Syracuse, is Pike Block’s developer. The company is transforming the buildings into a combination of apartments, offices, and ground-floor retail space. Work began in 2011.

CenterState CEO was able to start working more aggressively toward a move when it started seeing interest in the former chamber building. The group spoke with several interested buyers and the South Salina Street building is now under contract for sale, Simpson says.

The organization hasn’t disclosed the buyer yet, but Simpson says that will happen in the next few weeks.

When it came time to find a new home, there was no shortage of options. CenterState CEO considered sites including the Merchant Commons project at 220 S. Warren St. and the Onondaga Tower, the former HSBC building, at 125 E. Jefferson St., Simpson says.

But Pike Block is at the historic heart of downtown Syracuse and developers have spoken of it as an effort to extend the success of Armory Square into a new area of the city.

“At the end of the day, this project, it met our needs from a size standpoint and I think speaks to what we stand for as an organization,” Simpson says. “I think it was really important to us as we thought about making a move to be part of a project that was part of the renaissance of the city and in our downtown area in particular.”

The project takes advantage of the New York State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, which CenterState CEO pushed for strongly, he adds. Beyond that, the group has a long history with the Pike Block buildings.

The project itself began in 2005 when Adapt CNY, Inc., a nonprofit entity spun out of the 40 Below young professionals organization, secured control of the Wilson Building from the city of Syracuse. Adapt CNY eventually raised more than $1 million toward redevelopment. 40 Below is now sponsored by CenterState CEO.

The former MDA eventually acquired three of the Pike Block buildings, packaged the properties together, and negotiated the redevelopment as one project.

CenterState CEO will serve as an anchor tenant at Pike Block and occupy 12,000 square feet on the second floor of the Witherill Building and the first floor of the Chamberlin Building. The first floor space will be a reception area and include information for visitors.

CenterState CEO affiliates, including the Syracuse Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, and Benefit Specialists of New York, will also relocate to Pike Block.

The MDA-chamber merger left CenterState CEO with 21,000 square feet of space at the former chamber building, which is more than it needs, the group said. Office areas are divided tightly and the space includes several large common areas the chamber used in the past for events.

CenterState CEO has been holding most of those functions at member businesses in recent years, Simpson says. It’s a move that allows local companies to showcase their work.

“We were hearing more and more from folks that they wanted to do that,” he says.

CenterState CEO employs about 70 people. All of the organization’s staff members, except those at the Syracuse Tech Garden, will be housed at Pike Block after the move.

VIP announced Pike Block’s first retail tenant, Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop, earlier this month.

“We were not in the market for office tenants,” VIP Chairman and CEO David Nutting says. “We want the lights to be on. At 11 o’clock, we want the lights to be burning.”

But if there is one office tenant VIP would want for Pike Block, it would be CenterState CEO, he adds. Given the group’s history with the project and its role in downtown’s redevelopment, it’s a great fit, he says.

CenterState CEO is taking some space originally meant for residential units, Nutting says. The finished project will now have 68 apartments instead of 78. Between Tim Horton’s and CenterState CEO’s ground-floor space, about 20 percent of the development’s 25,000-square-foot retail area is spoken for, he adds.

VIP is in close to signing a lease with another tenant for 7,000 square feet and is in talks with four or five others, Nutting says. The company expects to wrap up all of the work on the project by the end of September.

Pike Block is set to host the Downtown Living Tour in May so much of the residential areas will be finished by then, he says.

VIP has the rights to the building adjacent to Pike Block to the south and expects to redevelop that structure next, Nutting adds.

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Synapse to sell local car-charging network

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SYRACUSE — Synapse Sustainability Trust, Inc. of Syracuse is selling its network of electric-vehicle charging stations in the region to a nationwide provider of charging services. Car Charging Group, Inc. of Miami Beach, Fla. announced plans March 12 to acquire the network from Synapse. Synapse is a nonprofit focused on sustainable environmental initiatives. Financial terms

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SYRACUSE — Synapse Sustainability Trust, Inc. of Syracuse is selling its network of electric-vehicle charging stations in the region to a nationwide provider of charging services.

Car Charging Group, Inc. of Miami Beach, Fla. announced plans March 12 to acquire the network from Synapse. Synapse is a nonprofit focused on sustainable environmental initiatives.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The local network includes 68 stations at sites including Destiny USA, the Towne Center at Fayetteville, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse University, and the Oncenter in Syracuse and the JFK Arena in Rome. The network also includes stations in the Westcott neighborhood and a total of 39 stations at commuter parking locations in downtown Syracuse.

As a nonprofit, the Synapse Trust is in a position to take on innovative projects ahead of their time, says Eckardt Beck, executive director of the trust. Once those initiatives have achieved a measure of success, they can be moved to a for-profit entity.

Beck notes the trust began building the local network when electric0vehicle sales were rarer than they are now.

The sale to Car Charging will foster better rates for the network’s users, he adds.

Car Charging operates 1,200 electric vehicle charging stations around the country. As a result, the firm can often negotiate better electric rates for its network since it’s such a major consumer of power, Beck says.

Beck says he met Car Charging CEO Michael Farkas about two years ago and the pair had been discussing rolling the Synapse network into Car Charging for awhile.

In addition to better rates, users of the Central New York network will now have access to stations nationwide, Beck notes. The local stations and Car Charging’s units all use the same software so drivers will be able to easily find all of them with Web searches.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) was a partner on deploying the Synapse network. With the acquisition, Car Charging will administer a pending NYSERDA grant that involves installing charging stations throughout upstate New York.

Beck will join Car Charging’s board of directors when the acquisition closes.

The Synapse deal continues Car Charging’s push into an attractive market, Farkas says. At the end of February, the company announced a deal for Beam Charging, LLC, a major provider of charging stations in the New York City area.

Car Charging installs charging stations at private residences and public locations like store parking lots and parking garages. The firm owns, maintains, and operates the units and offers subscription services for users.

Car Charging expects to add to its network in the metro area and Upstate, Farkas says. Without enough charging stations, he adds, it’s tough to offer a subscription model.

“We believe New York has a lot of potential,” he says. “We believe [electric vehicle] drivers are everywhere.

Sales of electric vehicles are growing, according to Car Charging. Sales in January this year were more than 300 percent higher than a year earlier and sales in February this year were up nearly 330 percent from the same month in 2012, according to the company.

The firm is in the process of opening a sales and maintenance office in New York City as a result of the acquisitions. The three-person office will be responsible for the company’s efforts throughout the Northeast, Farkas says.

Car Charging employs 17 people now.

Car Charging will make use of Beck’s expertise in the Syracuse and may also look to add a sales presence in the market at some point.

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Cleanup at Massena GM site moves ahead with redevelopment efforts

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MASSENA — Environmental cleanup at a former General Motors (GM) site in Massena should wrap up sometime in the next few years Work at the carmaker’s shuttered powertrain operation near the banks of the St. Lawrence River should finish by late 2015 or early 2016, says Brendan Mullen, New York cleanup manager for the RACER

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MASSENA — Environmental cleanup at a former General Motors (GM) site in Massena should wrap up sometime in the next few years

Work at the carmaker’s shuttered powertrain operation near the banks of the St. Lawrence River should finish by late 2015 or early 2016, says Brendan Mullen, New York cleanup manager for the RACER Trust, which owns the site. The trust was created in March 2011 by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court as part of GM’s bankruptcy, which was filed in 2009.

The trust is working on cleaning and redeveloping former GM sites throughout the country. When first formed, RACER owned a total of 44 million square feet of industrial space in 66 buildings, although it has since sold some of its properties.

A sale is the ultimate goal for the Massena site, says Bruce Rasher, RACER’s redevelopment manager. As the cleanup process proceeds, RACER is already talking with parties potentially interested in acquiring the 220-acre site.

It’s possible, a sale could close before cleanup is even complete, he says. RACER would continue to oversee the cleanup work if that happened.

Rasher declined to discuss details of the prospects he’s been in touch with, but says they include companies in manufacturing and energy. The site, Rasher says, has access to high-capacity, low-cost power, rail, and waterways that make it attractive to firms in those sectors.

“We think that the site is extremely valuable in terms of attracting a user with jobs that will make investments and redevelop the site,” Rasher says.

Rasher says he doesn’t have an estimate of when a deal for the site could close.

“We have some parties that are taking a very serious look at that property,” he says.

A large amount of cleanup work has already been done on the site, Mullen says. A project to demolish the site’s main plant, which totaled 855,000 square feet, had already started when the trust formed in 2011.

That project finished in late 2011, Mullen says. It was followed by a second phase that involved the concrete slab below the building.

Workers removed the slab and tunnels that were below the building and cleaned contaminated soils, Mullen says. That project wrapped up in 2012.

A third phase will start at the end of March or in early April, Mullen says. Perras Environmental Control, Inc. of Massena won the contract for the work. The firm has worked on the GM site in the past, according to RACER

In the current phase, Perras will dismantle three buildings remaining at the site, including one structure totaling 21,500 square feet and another totaling 10,000 square feet.

Perras will also excavate and remove about 58,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil, according to RACER. Three process-water lagoons will also be drained, excavated, and filled with clean soil.

All of the contaminated material will be sent off site in rail cars, according to RACER. Between 25 and 30 Perras employees will be at work on the project most days.

The current phase should end in November, Mullen says. After that, RACER still must complete some additional excavation and removal of contaminated material.

The trust also plans to install a groundwater recovery and treatment system, Mullen says.

When finished, the cleanup work will leave mostly open land, Mullen says. Two small structures related to water treatment will remain.

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Smart grid lab comes online at Syracuse University

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SYRACUSE — A lab focused on smart-grid technologies that has been planned since 2010 is up and running at Syracuse University (SU). A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy helped establish the facility, located at SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. The lab will help the school train the future engineers

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SYRACUSE — A lab focused on smart-grid technologies that has been planned since 2010 is up and running at Syracuse University (SU).

A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy helped establish the facility, located at SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. The lab will help the school train the future engineers who will be responsible for running the nation’s power grid in the coming years.

“We wanted [students] to have very good hands-on experience,” says Chilukuri Mohan, chairman of the department of electrical engineering and computer science. “Not just in the context of a specific tool, but rather getting used to a way of doing things which involves hands-on work.”

The grant helped pay for the equipment that students will use in the lab, Mohan says. It includes a model that simulates the entire electric grid from generation to transmission and distribution.

The model serves as a sandbox allowing students to see how various real-world scenarios affect and stress the grid. It includes elements involving renewables like wind and solar power so students can see how typical fluctuations in those energy sources affect the rest of the grid.

“Students would be able to see this and figure out how to mitigate it,” Mohan says.

The grant aims to help SU develop coursework for engineering students, utility workers, and unemployed personnel focused on smart-grid technologies. The university is collaborating with other groups including National Grid, the State University of New York Buffalo, Buffalo State College, Clarkson University, the University of Rochester, and Onondaga Community College.

A similar lab is located in Buffalo so experiments can be run simultaneously and results can be compared, Mohan says. The schools will also exchange information on their lab-oriented courses.

High demand is expected in the energy industry in the coming years for engineers with smart-grid skills. The mean age for the current crop of electrical engineers in the business is in the 50s, Mohan says.

“For a long time, people have not been hired,” he says. “In the coming years, there’s going to be a huge manpower gap to operate the grid.”

In addition, the technology that runs the power grid is changing dramatically. The days of one-way transmission from generator to consumer are over, Mohan says.

Small-scale, renewable-power generation can be installed at homes and businesses and much of that energy can flow back through the grid when it’s not in use on site, he explains.

“Technically, anyone could put up something in their own backyard and feed electricity back into the grid,” Mohan notes.

The advances are exciting and impressive, but make running the grid more challenging.

As more and more of our essential infrastructure in finance, communication, and other areas depends on a reliable power grid to function, the security threat from major blackouts increases, Mohan adds.

“It could really cripple the country,” he says. “We need to educate new engineers who can work with this technology.”

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Electronics recycler plans Earth Day event to kick off 2nd year in business

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DeWITT — Not quite one year after forming their electronics recycling company, Patrick Duffy and Scott Seymour are enjoying their 2012 successes, carving out their 2013 goals, and looking forward to Earth Day as they work to continue to spread the word about electronics recycling. Their business, Coast 2 Coast Electronic Recyclers, Inc., will celebrate

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Their business, Coast 2 Coast Electronic Recyclers, Inc., will celebrate Earth Day April 20 by allowing Onondaga County residents to drop off electronic items for free from 8 a.m. to noon at the company’s facility at 6600 Deere Road in DeWitt.

Duffy, president of Coast 2 Coast, says he expects to collect about 100,000 pounds of recyclable electronic products such as televisions, computers, cell phones, and batteries.

While many view those items as disposable, he says, New York state actually requires that they be recycled. Most electronic items contain plastics and metals that can be recycled for other uses. In addition, many also contain harmful items such as mercury or lead that need to be kept out of the landfills, Seymour, the company’s CEO, notes.

Along with diverting lots of electronic items from landfills, Duffy and Seymour hope their Earth Day event also helps raise awareness for Coast 2 Coast, which provides recycling services to businesses as well as consumers.

The pair formed the company last May and began collecting recyclables in mid-August. By the end of the year, Coast 2 Coast had collected about 160,000 pounds of recyclables. “It was quite a stellar end of the year for us,” Seymour says.

Coast 2 Coast has built a solid client base, Duffy says, that includes residential customers as well as privately owned businesses and county, state, and federal entities. While he declined to name specific customers, Seymour says Coast 2 Coast’s customer base spans Onondaga County and also includes Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Oneida counties.

As word about Coast 2 Coast continues to spread, Duffy says he expects client numbers to continue growing. In many cases, the company hears from businesses that have been holding on to old electronic equipment because they didn’t know how to dispose of the items. In some cases, he says, businesses didn’t have means to transport the equipment to a recycler. Coast 2 Coast solves that problem for businesses by offering a free pick-up service to businesses.

Coast 2 Coast does charge a fee for the recycling, Seymour says, but makes the bulk of its revenue by breaking down items into about 34 different commodities like plastic and wires, which it then sells to downstream vendors. Some of the vendors that Coast 2 Coast works with include New Jersey–based Metalico, Inc., which operates several facilities in upstate New York; DeWitt–based CNY Resource Recovery, Inc.; and Owego–based Upstate Shredding, LLC.

Employment has also increased at Coast 2 Coast as the company has grown. Duffy and Seymour, who started as a two-man operation, now have a staff of 10 full- and part-time employees, exceeding their goal of adding five employees in 2012. Over the next several years, they hope to grow the work force to 50 employees, starting with between five and seven new employees this year.

Seymour and Duffy declined to share any revenue goals.

In 2012, Coast 2 Coast also successfully completed a project to make “green” improvements at its 20,000-square-foot facility including installing LED lighting and upgrading the production line to pneumatic equipment. The changes reduced the company’s carbon footprint by about 30 percent and boosted its production efficiency, Duffy says.

For 2013, Seymour says the company hopes to add more new equipment that will further boost Coast 2 Coast’s production capacity and efficiency.

This year, the company will also work to achieve its Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS) and Responsible Recycling Practices (R2) certifications. The business began work on the certifications last year in hopes of attaining them in 2012, but pending changes to the R2 certification put the process on the back burner, Seymour says. It didn’t make sense to get the certification and then have to possibly apply for it again when new requirements were put in place. Now he plans to achieve those certifications by the end of 2013. Coast 2 Coast is currently registered as an electronic-waste recycling facility with the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Headquartered on Deere Road in DeWitt, Coast 2 Coast (www.c2ceri.com) also provides data-destruction services and remarkets electronic items that are still in good working condition. The company does not accept appliances for recycling.

Prior to forming Coast 2 Coast, Seymour and Duffy worked together at CXtec in Salina. Seymour was the director of CXtec’s LIFECYCLExpress electronics-recycling division, while Duffy headed a sales division that handled business with the federal government.

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Onondaga Lake cleanup progresses

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SYRACUSE — Envision hiking and biking trails, a boat rental company, and even a beach and some swimming. All could one day be an option in and around Onondaga Lake as a $1 billion cleanup project continues. For more than 125 years, industrial and chemical operations disposed myriad pollutants into the 4.6-square-mile lake, including mercury

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For more than 125 years, industrial and chemical operations disposed myriad pollutants into the 4.6-square-mile lake, including mercury and other heavy metals, chlorobenzene, toluene, xylene, and PCBs. Municipal sewage also polluted the lake. By 1940, swimming in the lake was banned, and in 1972 fishing was prohibited.

In 1994, Onondaga Lake became a federal Superfund site, meaning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared it contaminated and in need of remediation.

Morristown, N.J.–based Honeywell International has been a large part of the cleanup project due to its 1999 acquisition of Allied Signal, which operated a location near Onondaga Lake. Work to date has included five years of design and engineering, cleanup of upland industrial sites, and the construction of a barrier wall to keep groundwater from entering the lake before it can be treated. The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the U.S. EPA, and the state Department of Health (DOH) are overseeing the project.

Last July, work began to dredge and cap the bottom of the lake, with the removal of 230,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment through November, says John McAuliffe, Syracuse program director with Honeywell. Dredging and capping work will resume this spring and continue through 2015 and 2016, respectively.

“By the end of 2013, we anticipate being halfway done with the dredging,” McAuliffe says. In total, dredging will take place on 185 acres of the lake representing about 6 percent of the 3,000-acre lake bottom. Additional dredging will take place on 21 acres in three areas adjacent to the lake, according to the DEC. About 2 million cubic yards total will be removed.

While Honeywell works to make Onondaga Lake a “greener” place, it’s using as many environmentally friendly methods and products as possible, McAuliffe says. “Sustainability is very important to Honeywell,” he says.

More than half of the products used for the project offer energy-efficiency benefits. Honeywell has used “green” concrete products, organic biosolids and fertilizers, biodiesel fuel, and reclaimed lumber. Solar panels and green electricity are helping to reduce greenhouse gases and Honeywell procures locally whenever it can, McAuliffe notes.

Honeywell will also create 450 acres of new habitat on the bottom of the lake, which has an average depth of 35 feet, after capping — adding more than 1 million native plants. In addition, with help from the Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps, Honeywell is restoring habitat along Geddes Brook and Nine Mile Creek.

The company has made information about the cleanup project available online at www.lakecleanup.com, and Honeywell opened a visitor’s center in November, McAuliffe says.

“People here in Syracuse really are excited about the project,” he says. So far, nearly 1,000 people have come to the visitor’s center, located at exit 7 off Route 690, where they can learn about the cleanup project first hand. Visitors can view videos about the details of the cleanup effort and look out at the lake, McAuliffe adds.

Onondaga County has undertaken its own partner efforts to ensure the lake’s water is clean and stays that way, says Matthew Millea, deputy county executive for physical services. As documented on its www.savetherain.us site, the city has not only made improvements to its wastewater treatment center, but has also implemented green and gray infrastructure to allow the county to better handle stormwater to prevent recontamination of the lake, he says. Green and gray infrastructure includes measures that help capture rainwater and prevent runoff, and that is especially important in Syracuse where the stormwater and sanitary sewer systems are combined, Millea says.

The goal is a healthy ecosystem from top to bottom, and that could, in turn, foster some economic growth around the lake, he says.

The county commissioned a report by F.O.C.U.S Greater Syracuse (www.focussyracuse.org), which showed that county residents are really interested in seeing recreational opportunities open up around the lake, Millea says. That includes access to the water, fishing, biking, and even a swimming beach. While the majority of the land surrounding the lake is publicly owned, there are opportunities for focused retail development that would further the recreational use of the lake, he adds. That could include a shop that rents kayaks and other boats or an ice cream stand.

People are energized about the cleanup project and all the potential surrounding the lake, he adds. “It was just seen as a liability and not an asset, he says. That is changing now as the cleanup progresses.

“Onondaga Lake is going to be important to the community as a healthy, sustainable asset for future generations,” McAuliffe says.

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Raymour & Flanigan says yes to education

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On March 5, at a New York City gala, Raymour & Flanigan announced a pledge of $500,000 to the Say Yes to Education Endowment Fund. The gift will be matched by SRC, Inc., which committed $5 million to the program in 2011. The Raymour & Flanigan pledge is the largest received since the match was

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Say Yes to Education, Inc. is a national, nonprofit education foundation committed to increasing high-school and college graduation rates for the nation’s urban youth. The program provides comprehensive support, including the promise of free college tuition. Locally, the Say Yes to Education scholarships provide last-dollar funding for any student graduating from the Syracuse City School District. Students can attend any SUNY or CUNY institution or choose from more than 25 private colleges and universities.

The owners of Raymour & Flanigan — Neil, Steve, and Mike Goldberg — are smart businesspeople who grew a $6 million operation into a $1 billion enterprise, making the company the largest retail, furniture dealer in the Northeast and the seventh largest in the country. I asked Neil why the family chose to support Say Yes with such a substantial gift.

“The Goldbergs grew up in Syracuse. My father and uncle went to Central Tech, and my brother and I graduated from Nottingham High School. The Goldberg family has done business for over 60 years in this community … It’s our hometown; we wanted to give back … The city [of Syracuse] has challenges and [the kids] need role models. They need opportunities … Say Yes is a new way to help the inner cities become vibrant.”

In addition to the financial commitment, Raymour and Flanigan “… has set up paid, summer internships for five or six city residents. At our campus in Liverpool, the students can work in marketing, finance, merchandising, distribution, the call center, and the service group … I’m excited that this will lead to careers at Raymour & Flanigan,” says Neil Goldberg.

I asked Neil why the company made the pledge now. “We’ve been monitoring Say Yes for months … I met with the founder, George Weiss … We’re encouraged by the broad collaboration among the city, county, Syracuse University, the school board, the head of the teachers’ union, and private business … We’ve gained confidence in the program watching the first students graduate from college. I’m confident of the program’s results.”

Neil Goldberg has also stepped up to the plate to co-chair the fundraising effort to reach the $20 million goal set by the foundation. He serves with Allen Naples, the regional president of M&T Bank. Goldberg has also joined the national board of Say Yes.

“We need to provide opportunities for our urban youth,” says Goldberg. “Our failure to help is not only a loss to the individual but also to the community.”

The Goldbergs hope that other area businesses will join them and support Say Yes, not just for philanthropic reasons but because it makes good business sense.

Norman Poltenson is publisher of The Central New York Business Journal. Contact him at npoltenson@cnybj.com

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