BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Sites & BuildingsIf you are interested in locating a business operation in either southwestern New York or northwestern Pennsylvania, and wish to have your business operation served by freight rail shipping, STERA, WNYP, and various county and municipal economic development organizations and officials can show you developable industrial, warehousing, distribution, commercial, and logistics sites and buildings, plus also transloading facilities for sites and/or buildings not located adjacent to rail lines. Sites and buildings in the six-county region in NYS and PA served by WNYP can offer the following advantages: proximity to eastern seaboard metropolitan areas and ports; access to I-90 (i.e., the NYS Thruway), I-86, I-390, and other major highways; and access to Norfolk Southern, CSXT, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and other rail carriers.
If you wish to build a new facility for your operations, many buildable sites are pre-qualified and permitted. For additional information and to arrange site and / or building tours, please contact Richard Zink at 716-945-5301 Ext. 2203 or rzink@southerntierwest.org. STERA will respond to your inquiry with discretion and professionalism. STERA works closely with state and local economic development agencies to assemble packages of funding assistance and other incentives for new and expanding businesses that will be served by our railroad operator WNYP. To the right are examples of Sites and/or Buildings: |
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Locational Advantages and Demographics
Transportation / Natural Resources / Quality of Life / Productive Workforce / Universities and Colleges / Housing Stock
Health Care / Recreational Opportunities
Health Care / Recreational Opportunities
For a county-level census-based statistical summary, click on the following links:
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Counties of New York
Allegany / Cattaraugus / Chautauqua / Steuben |
Counties in Pennsylvania
Erie / Crawford |
Assistance and Incentives
Companies desiring to locates business facilities on sites served by WNYP railroad operations can expect to receive significant assistance with all aspects of their location decision, from identifying and evaluating sites, to engineering and architectural design, to permitting and environmental reviews, to funding, to personnel assistance, etc.
STERA works closely with County Industrial Development Agencies, municipalities, NYS Empire State Development Corporation, and the Southern Tier West Regional Planning & Development Board to insure that developers have a professional team of seamless assistance with your site location project. Common assistance programs include:
Municipal Assistance
STERA works closely with County Industrial Development Agencies, municipalities, NYS Empire State Development Corporation, and the Southern Tier West Regional Planning & Development Board to insure that developers have a professional team of seamless assistance with your site location project. Common assistance programs include:
Municipal Assistance
- 485b real property tax abatement; infrastructure connections
- highway access, signaling, and signage
- tax exempt and taxable industrial development bond for eligible land and building projects
- real property tax abatement
- mortgage recording tax exemption
- real estate, equipment, and working capital loans
- tax leases
- sale/lease back transaction to provide real property tax abatement, sate and local sales tax abatement, and mortgage recording tax exemption (if any)
- PILOT program
- real estate, equipment, and working capital loans
- tax credits for capital improvements and employment
- reduced introductory utility cost
- skills training for firms expanding their operation or to prepare new employees to meet requirements for entry-level jobs
- customized training
- tax credits for capital improvements, R&D, employment, and pollution control
- financial assistance for training programs on a matching basis