SULLIVAN, N.Y. — The Town of Sullivan has been trying to develop the Harbor Lights Business Park for decades to make it shovel-ready for employers. But it has “lacked the funding” to be able to complete the needed infrastructure upgrades, the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) said. With Micron Technology’s (NASDAQ: […]
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SULLIVAN, N.Y. — The Town of Sullivan has been trying to develop the Harbor Lights Business Park for decades to make it shovel-ready for employers.
But it has “lacked the funding” to be able to complete the needed infrastructure upgrades, the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) said.
With Micron Technology’s (NASDAQ: MU) $100 billion investment in nearby Clay, Sullivan is now considering the park for high-tech opportunities, and programs like those created in Schumer’s proposed ONSHORE Act “could help bridge the gap needed to land these major employers in Madison County.”
On June 26, Schumer revealed the ONSHORE Act, a proposal targeting federal investment to “breathe new life” into industrial sites across upstate New York and bring good-paying manufacturing jobs back from overseas.
ONSHORE is short for Opportunities for Non-developed Sites to Have Opportunities to be Rehabilitated for Economic Development, Schumer’s office said.
Specifically, the new federal legislation would provide $100 million per year for five years in dedicated funding for a “critical” supply chain site-development grant program within the Economic Development Administration (EDA). Through this program, EDA would provide assistance for site and utility readiness, workforce development, distribution, and logistics, to prepare strategic mega sites and regionally impactful sites across places like upstate New York for new industrial investment.
Schumer spoke at Chapman Park at 1463 Route 31 in the Bridgeport area of the town of Sullivan in Madison County.
“The Onshore Act will help sites like the Harbor Lights Business Park take the final step to being ready for businesses to move in. Thank you to Senator Schumer for working with communities to remove the barriers in the way of developing shovel ready sites here in the U.S. It is now more important than ever to strengthen and grow domestic manufacturing. This will not only protect our economic future but also our national security,” Madison County Board Chairman and Sullivan Town Supervisor John Becker said. “Harbor Lights Business Park has so much to offer with a great location, modern infrastructure, high speed internet, and a supportive community. Thanks to this bill, this business park can become prime real estate for any potential Micron spinoff business. Making Harbor Lights Business Park a reality has been a longtime coming.”
Schumer said that this proposal would help provide “much-needed” federal support with “major” site-readiness and workforce development that can boost sites like Harbor Lights Business Park in Madison County; White Pine Commerce Park in Clay; and the Marcy Nanocenter in Oneida County, per the lawmaker’s office.
“Micron’s historic investment as well as investment’s like Wolfspeed’s at Marcy Nanocenter, are proof positive that with increased support for shovel-ready sites and workforce development, in tandem with the federal incentives I led to passage, we can bring manufacturing and good-paying jobs back from overseas to Central New York and the Mohawk Valley. The ONSHORE Act is about preparing our industrial sites and workforce to tap into Upstate NY’s amazing assets to power the revival of American manufacturing. Upstate NY can tap the ONSHORE Act to supercharge critical industries like chips and clean technology and ensure they are made in America, including right here in places like CNY and the Mohawk Valley,” Schumer said in a news release. “The ONSHORE Act will build on the historic new investments and manufacturing boom that Upstate NY is already seeing from the bills I pushed through into law last Congress, and I will fight tooth and nail to lead the ONSHORE Act to passage to continue to deliver federal investment in manufacturing across Upstate NY.”
For his announcement, Schumer was joined by Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon; Madison County Administrator Mark Scimone; Becker; Madison County IDA Executive Director Kipp Hicks; Robert Simpson, president and CEO of Centerstate CEO; and New York State Senator Joe Griffo (R–Rome).
