Salina–based Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C. (B&L) is looking to hire employees for its new office in suburban Buffalo. B&L has two employees who were working from their homes in servicing the firm’s clients in the Buffalo area, says John Brusa, Jr., president of Barton & Loguidice. “They both have stepped up and they’re going to […]
Salina–based Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C. (B&L) is looking to hire employees for its new office in suburban Buffalo.
B&L has two employees who were working from their homes in servicing the firm’s clients in the Buffalo area, says John Brusa, Jr., president of Barton & Loguidice.
“They both have stepped up and they’re going to help us move forward with managing that office,” says Brusa, who spoke with CNYBJ on Sept. 7. “We’ve always wanted to make the commitment to the area.”
The new office is located in the Riverview Solar Technology Park in the town of Tonawanda, B&L said in a news release.
B&L is an engineering, planning, environmental, and landscape architecture firm.
A space with a little more than 2,000 square feet, the office “will be able to accommodate the anticipated staff growth” as the firm looks to recruit technical professionals.
The new space can accommodate up to 10 employees. The firm has open positions now for civil environmental engineers, landscape architects and planners, and those are positions the company wants to fill for the Tonawanda office.
“Basically, over the next few years … [we’ll] ramp that [figure] up to 8-10 employees to cover clientele in the Western New York area,” says Brusa.
B&L currently employs about 250 people overall. Besides its Salina headquarters and the new office in Tonawanda, the firm has offices in Binghamton, Albany, Rochester, Watertown, Ellenville, New Paltz, Newburgh, and Somers, New York, along with Camp Hill, Pennsylvania and Lanham, Maryland.
B&L has a five-year lease for the Tonawanda space. Aside from the build-out cost that was incorporated into the lease agreement, Brusa says Barton & Loguidice spent about $40,000 for technology and furnishings in the office.
“We fit all the offices with video screens and all of our inner-office video equipment so we can do all of our meetings and share information,” he adds.
A real-estate firm in the area helped Barton & Loguidice find the space, according to Brusa.
B&L services about 20 clients in the Buffalo area, including municipal clients. “We have some industrial [clients],” says Brusa, noting his firm provides environmental-engineering services for those customers.
The idea for a Buffalo–area office was part of a strategic-planning session the firm conducted in the spring of 2017. B&L wanted to study “geographic growth” within New York, specifically in Western New York and the Southern Tier. It developed a plan for “expansion possibilities” and what they could mean for the firm.
“After the study was done, the decision was made to move forward about a year ago … late summer of 2017,” says Brusa.
