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The St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency is scheduled to meet on Friday, December 18, 2020 at 9:00 AM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.  Meetings of the St. Lawrence County IDA – Local Development Corporation, St. Lawrence County IDA – Civic Development Corporation and St. Lawrence County Property Development Corporation will immediately follow.

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The proposed project is the acquisition and rehabilitation of Lawrence Avenue Apartments in Potsdam. This acquisition will preserve and extend the affordability restrictions at the property, likely for 25-plus years to those families making no more than 60% of Area Median Income.

Originally built in 1978, the property consists of 137 affordable multifamily units in 6 residential buildings all situated on a 10.483-acre site. The property is subject to a 20-year HAP contract (Project-Based Section 8) that expires on 9/30/2037 which provides subsidy to 136 of the 137 units.

The anticipated rehabilitation costs are over $45,000 per unit. The rehabilitation will consist of unit upgrades (new kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, etc..), common area upgrades, building system upgrades, new roofing, siding and windows, as well as site work. No tenants are expected to be permanently displaced as a result of the rehabilitation activities (for the most par the work will be “tenant-in-place”.

AmTech Yarns, Inc., a subsidiary of a Canadian company based in Cornwall, Ontario, is setting up an operation in Massena. The company specializes in manufacturing a variety of twisted, air entangled and air textured high performance yarns for application in aerospace, fire-fighting, military, automotive, wire cabling, rope and cordage, and
other industries.

The St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency has scheduled a Governance Committee Meeting for Tuesday, March 16 beginning at 12:00 PM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton. Governance Committee Meetings for the St. Lawrence County IDA – Local Development Corporation, St. Lawrence County IDA – Civic Development Corporation and St. Lawrence County Property Development Corporation will immediately follow.

The St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency is scheduled to meet on Friday, October 9, 2020 at 9:00 AM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.  Meetings of the St. Lawrence County IDA- Local Development Corporation, St. Lawrence County IDA – Civic Development Corporation and St. Lawrence County Property Development Corporation will immediately follow.

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The meetings are open to the public.

Pepsi-Cola Ogdensburg Bottlers, Inc. (Pepsi Ogdensburg) is acquiring two new pieces of equipment, a baler and a perforator. The baler will help assist the company’s bottle and can recycling operation, while the perforator machine will perforate the bottles and enable the baler to maximize its bale weight. The company has conducted a workflow analysis of its recycling and vending operations located at 205 Cedar Street, Ogdensburg, and determined that the building will require renovations to the work area for the baler and perforator. The renovations will include the construction of wall separators to divide the bottle and can repositories before the baling process and incorporate upgrades to the
building’s restroom facilities. In addition to the machinery and equipment upgrade for the Cedar Street recycling facility, Pepsi Ogdensburg plans to offer chilled product delivery in 2020. To enable the delivery of chilled products the company intends to construct a cold storage room within its Mansion Avenue facility.

North American Forest Group, Inc., a related company to Massena-based wood pellet and timber harvesting
companies Seaway Timber Harvesting and Curran Renewable Energy, purchased a vacant 143,000-square-foot
former manufacturing building and approximately 28 acres of idle industrial land on the St. Lawrence River for the
purposes of starting a sawmill and wood products distribution operation. The facility is located outside the
Ogdensburg city limits in the town of Oswegatchie, along more than 1,500 feet of St. Lawrence River shoreline.
After five years of non-use, the facility needs significant upgrades, including new windows, roof repairs, interior
and exterior wall upgrades, the rehabilitation of the sprinkler system, updated lighting and renovations to the
manufacturing space itself to accommodate the sawmill equipment and the proposed processing flow of raw logs
into the building and finished product out of the building. The site itself requires upgrades as well, including paving
repairs and the paving of additional building access and truck entrance space on the east side of the
property. Some of the equipment to be purchased and installed at the facility includes log handling equipment
and forklifts necessary to handle and move both logs and finished wood products.

Pro Sport Trailer Manufacturing is a proposed trailer manufacturing start-up operation which will specialize in aluminum framed open deck and enclosed trailers. Pro Sport will design, build and distribute high quality aluminum trailers to dealers and distributors throughout the Northeast US with plans to expand to the Midwest and Canada.

Corning Incorporated, a NYSE-listed company, is the world leader in specialty glass. With over 166 years of materials sciences and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. From cover glass for consumer electronics, to microlithography solutions for the semiconductor industry and many applications in between. Corning’s Specialty Materials Division develops customer-driven solutions for
wide variety of material and optical challenges. The Company’s unmatched expertise in fundamental glass science and more than 150 material formulations for glass, glass ceramics, and fluoride crystals make this
possible, along with our deep knowledge of thins films and the ability to process other materials. The Corning Canton Plant, built in 1966, manufactures high quality optical glass for the semiconductor market, as
well as high energy lasers for space and commercial uses. Corning has a very rich history in space exploration and today precision glass products from Corning Canton continues to enable key space exploration instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope. The Canton project will expand the plant to add new Forming, Annealing capacity, and supporting infrastructure. The continued success of the facility and Corning’s operations overall in New York State are critical to the economic health of this region and the State of New York as a whole. Corning is one of the largest industrial employers in the region, and the facility employees more than 200 individuals. CPMCo is a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of Corning Incorporated. CPMCo owns the Canton Plant.