Within the next year, nearly 800 new jobs could be coming to Airport Corporate Park in Big Flats, pending financial help from New York State.
Chemung County Executive Tom Santulli says the home furnishings e-commerce customer service business, Wayfair, is looking to buy the former Corning Shared Services building on Daniel Zenker Drive for a future in-bound call center. The company says it would create 450 jobs over the next three years. Wayfair is looking for $3.7 million from the Start-Up New York Incentive for the $8 million project.
Also, Corning Incorporated has announced its Corning Pharmaceuticals Technologies project at its Big Flats Innovation Support Center. The project has a potential investment of up to $50 million and would create around 130 jobs. Corning has invested a new product line “Glass Z” for the pharmaceutical packaging marketplace and has created a new business division. Santulli explains this project was designated as a Southern Tier priority project under the Upstate Revitalization Initiative and the Consolidated Funding Application.
As previously reported by WENY News, Micatu intends to buy the former Wings of Eagles and Sikorsky facility at Aviation Drive in Big Flats to relocate its corporate headquarters and establish a high tech manufacturing facility. The company says it would create an additional 65 jobs. This project was designated as a Southern Tier priority project under the URI/CFA Process.
“The funding piece just slows down process because it takes a while to get that approval from the State of New York. And we’ve expressed that concern to the state and they understand it. But it’s a lot of the paperwork and what not, but we’ll get through it. I’m hoping we can have anything from 600 to 700 to 800 new jobs over the next 12 months,” explains Chemung County Executive Tom Santulli.
Other projects include, CemeCon Inc., a manufacturer of carbide cutting tools with high performance coatings, which is located at the IST Center in Airport Corporate Park intends to expand its current, 25,000 square foot facility by expanding into another 15,000 square foot facility on the IST campus for the purposes of creating a National headquarters and expansion of its CVD Diamond coating service. These expansion plans will result in the creation of 12 additional jobs. This project was designated as a Southern Tier priority project under the URI/CFA process.
Beecher Emission Solutions Technologies operating under the project name BEST Consolidated Growth will acquire the former Schweizer facility in Big Flats to consolidate its Elmira operations with recent business acquisitions from Pennsylvania and Nevada. The consolidation of these operations will result in the creation of 36 jobs and will allow this facility to be privately owned. This project was designated a Southern Tier Priority project under the URI/CFA process.
Hanover Square Feasibility Study in the Village of Horseheads, has been approved by the Chemung County Industrial Development Agency to prepare an application for New York Main Street grant funding for a mixed use development project to include upper story residential housing. A local developer has been identified.