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Amazon’s robotic-fulfillment center in Clay formally opens
CLAY, N.Y. — Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new robotic-fulfillment center at 7211 Morgan Road in Clay is the company’s largest facility in New York. That’s according to Jennifer Cruickshank, Amazon head of New York public policy and community engagement for the Seattle, Washington–based ecommerce giant. She made the comment to open the June 23 formal-opening ceremony. […]
Former employee to lead new Ashley McGraw D.C. office
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse–based Ashley McGraw Architects has employees in the Washington, D.C. region and believed it was time to open an office in that area, which it is calling its Mid-Atlantic office. The firm also announced the hiring of Nicholas Williams, who will direct the new Mid-Atlantic office. Williams previously worked at Ashley McGraw
New York home sales climb in May, prices keep soaring
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York realtors sold 12,451 previously owned homes in May, up 12.2 percent from the 11,095 homes sold in the year-ago month. However, pending sales fell more than 3 percent in May, pointing to likely sales declines in the next month or two. The data comes from the New York State Association
Office building at 615 W. Genesee St. in Syracuse sold for nearly $450,000
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The nearly 11,200-square-foot, multi-tenanted office building at 615 West Genesee St. in Syracuse has been sold. Jacob Friedman recently purchased the two-story masonry structure, located on less than half an acre of land, for $449,000 from Orange Genesee, LLC. Barton Feinberg and Richard Robb, as dual agents of Sutton Real Estate Company,
Binghamton counseling center plans expansion of building and services
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Family & Children’s Counseling Services plans to break ground this fall on a 9,000-square-foot, two-story addition that will more than double its counseling space. The current building at 257 Main St. is about 7,000 square feet, says CEO Lisa Hoeschele, but only about 4,000 square feet of that is usable as counseling
Southern Tier 8 Regional Board working to expand broadband access in Southern Tier counties
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The Southern Tier 8 Regional Board plans to explore the expansion of a middle mile fiber ring in Broome, Delaware, Schoharie, and
ConnextCare Pulaski project brings much-needed updates
PULASKI, N.Y. — Crews have begun work on a project that seeks to bring “much-needed updates” to the ConnextCare health center at 61 Delano St. in Pulaski. ConnextCare is an Oswego County health-care provider. It was previously known as NOCHSI, or Northern Oswego County Health Services Inc. The project will include a covered drive-thru testing
Work begins on Georgia–based firm’s $16M hatchery project in Watertown
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Construction work is underway on a project that will be the largest hatchery in New York State and that is expected to create 20 new full-time jobs. CWT Farms International on June 15 broke ground on a $16 million chick hatchery in the town of Watertown. The upcoming 50,000-square-foot hatchery is located at
Crews complete improvements to Chittning Pond in Oneida County
SANGERFIELD, N.Y. — Crews recently finished improvements along Chittning Pond in the town of Sangerfield in Oneida County, including rehabilitation of the dam that impounds the pond and an enhanced fishing-access site. The 70-acre pond located in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Albert J. Woodford Memorial State Forest is home to
Jefferson County hotels post more than 16 percent increase in occupancy
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Jefferson County hotels continued to attract more overnight guests in May compared to the year-ago month. The hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county rose 16.3 percent to 56.9 percent in the fifth month of the year, according to STR, a Tennessee–based hotel market data and
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