The Be A Neighbor Fund seeks to help struggling Utica small businesses

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UTICA, N.Y. — Seeking to help local small businesses that have struggled during the pandemic, four Utica–area businesses have started the Be A Neighbor Fund. The businesses involved include Universal Bookkeeper, Made In Utica, McGrogan Design, and thINCubator. The fund has an initial goal of raising $45,000 to help out five small businesses. “The idea […]

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UTICA, N.Y. — Seeking to help local small businesses that have struggled during the pandemic, four Utica–area businesses have started the Be A Neighbor Fund.

The businesses involved include Universal Bookkeeper, Made In Utica, McGrogan Design, and thINCubator.

The fund has an initial goal of raising $45,000 to help out five small businesses.

“The idea isn’t to have a one-shot donation to a business,” Justin Miller, owner of Universal Bookkeeper, said in a release. “I kept thinking, how can we help businesses in a way that would make an impact. So, the idea is they will receive up to $3,000 for three months. This allows a business to really have some breathing room and have some reliable income for whatever they need to stay open and thrive again.”

Donations will be processed through Handshake.City, a nonprofit organization under management of Made In Utica.

For businesses, the application process is “short and simple,” and any business in the greater Utica area can apply. Community members can also nominate a business.

“We created a really easy process on our website for the applications and nominations,” Justin Parkinson of Made In Utica, said. “We’d love to hear from business owners, but we also want to hear from the community. We want you to think about what businesses you love, what businesses would you truly miss if they were gone.”

The team behind the Be A Neighbor Fund is hoping to continue the fund even after the initial goal is reached.

“The purpose of our business has always been to help as many small businesses as possible, so it was a no-brainer to come together and collaborate with these talented partners and make that happen,” Ryan McGrogan, owner of McGrogan Design, said.

“The more money raised, the more businesses will be helped. No donation is too small, or too big. We’d encourage anyone from individuals in the community to other businesses to be a ‘good neighbor’ and donate toward the fund,” said Meghan Fraser McGrogan of McGrogan Design.

More information about the fund including applications, nominations, and donation forms for the Be A Neighbor Fund are available now at www.handshake.city, per the release.

Hauch starts as new Carrols Restaurant Group COO

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SYRACUSE — Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) recently appointed Carl Hauch as the company’s chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 15. Syracuse–based Carrols is the largest Burger King franchisee in the U.S. Hauch, age 54, comes to Carrols from NPC International, where he was president of the company’s Wendy’s division, from January 2019 to

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SYRACUSE — Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) recently appointed Carl Hauch as the company’s chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 15.

Syracuse–based Carrols is the largest Burger King franchisee in the U.S.

Hauch, age 54, comes to Carrols from NPC International, where he was president of the company’s Wendy’s division, from January 2019 to February 2021. NPC is the largest Wendy’s franchisee. Hauch led the company to its most-successful year in 2020, prior to its recently announced sale, Carrols said in a news release.

Before joining NPC, Hauch worked at Barnes & Noble, Inc., where he served as VP from July 2017 through June 2018 and co-CEO from June 2018 to January 2019.

Prior to Barnes & Noble, Hauch worked as senior VP of national operations and customer experience at Advance Auto Parts. He also held multiple leadership positions at Advance Auto Parts, including as head of operations and human resources. Hauch worked for the company from 2008-2012.

Hauch started his career working in management positions in the restaurant industry before launching a 14-year career at Starbucks in 1994. He worked in a variety of operational positions, including store manager, district manager, director of operations, and regional VP. Hauch ran national operations in Australia and became CEO/managing director of Starbucks Switzerland and Austria, where he led “a complete turnaround of the business in the span of 24 months,” per the release.

“Carl is a terrific addition to the Carrols team, and I am thrilled to have him on board to oversee our almost 1,100 Burger King and Popeyes restaurants in 23 states,” Daniel T. Accordino, chairman and CEO of Carrols, said. “He has a depth of experience managing large-scale restaurant and retail operations, as well as a proven reputation for growing businesses and managing costs. I believe his skills will be especially valuable as we re-engage in strong but balanced organic and non-organic growth strategies.”

Contract details

Under his employment agreement, Hauch will be paid an annual base salary of $550,000 that may be increased annually at the discretion of the Carrols compensation committee, according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Hauch will also get to participate in the company’s executive-bonus plan, with a target percentage of 100 percent of his annual base salary, and any restricted stock or other equity-incentive plans applicable to executive employees. Hauch will also receive a cash sign-on bonus of $120,000, in lieu of any payments for costs of his relocation and reimbursement for temporary-lodging expenses incurred through his relocation date or June 15, 2021 — whichever comes first.

Local sales-tax collections in NYS fell by 10 percent in 2020

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Local sales-tax collections declined by $1.8 billion, or 10 percent, in 2020 compared to 2019, amid the coronavirus crisis, the Office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently reported. The decline exceeded the 6 percent drop in local sales-tax collections seen in the 2009 recession compared with 2008. Collections were uneven

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Community Foundation awards nearly $540K in grants to area nonprofits

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SYRACUSE — The Central New York Community Foundation recently announced that it distributed $539,877 in grants to nonprofit organizations in Onondaga and Madison counties through its Community Grantmaking program. The initiative funds projects in the areas of arts and culture, civic affairs, education, health, human services, and the environment. The grant recipients are as follows.

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The initiative funds projects in the areas of arts and culture, civic affairs, education, health, human services, and the environment. The grant recipients are as follows.

• A Tiny Home for Good Syracuse received $35,000 to restore property that will serve as its headquarters.

• Brady Faith Center was allocated $60,000 to create a workforce-development plan for its new apprenticeship program at Brady Market.

• City of Syracuse received $65,000 to support its Lead Abatement Program and launch workforce training and certification for housing-code inspectors.

• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County was provided $65,131 to support its curbside-market program, which is a collaborative of farmers, local nonprofits, and human-service organizations that provides grocery items to Madison County residents.

• David’s Refuge received $27,500 to increase program accessibility, outreach, and increase partnerships with people of color to diversify its client base and staff and decrease racial disparity.

• Everson Museum of Art was allocated $40,500 to hire a full-time grant writer to help increase its fundraising capacity, programming, and inclusion initiatives.

• Fiver Children’s Foundation New York received $10,000 to host diversity, equity, and inclusion assessments, trainings, and community workshops to help with the creation of a strategic plan.

• The Haven at Skanda obtained $25,000 to hire a consultant to create a new strategic plan to promote growth, expansion, and the sustainability of its programming.

• Junior Achievement of Central Upstate NY was provided $15,000 to launch a new youth entrepreneurial program and support its financial-literacy programs for students in Syracuse.

• Museum of Science & Technology Foundation (MOST) was allocated $17,250 to launch a new after-school mentorship program for Black youth that will guide them through career exploration in the areas of science, technology, skilled trades, and manufacturing.

• PGR Foundation received $25,099 to purchase technology equipment and hire tutors for its Back to School Pandemic Preparation Series.

• The Reading League Syracuse obtained $45,000 to produce reading lessons geared toward pre-K-3rd graders that will air on WCNY for students impacted by COVID-19.

• Skaneateles Lake Association received $50,000 to develop an in-person and virtual curriculum for its Emerging Scientists Program that teaches students about watershed science.

• SUNY ESF was allocated $36,070 to conduct a land-restoration project to improve the water quality of Skaneateles Lake.

• Syracuse Children’s Theatre was provided $14,837 to hire a student-success specialist to support students of all abilities so that its arts recreation is inclusive for all children.

• Syracuse Stage was allocated $25,000 to support racial-equity training for its staff and board using artistic projects that highlight the voices of people of color.

• Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today received $4,000 to launch a social and digital-media campaign to continue its Lead Poisoning Education and Awareness Project.

• Vesta Community Housing Development obtained $30,000 to purchase a van to safely transport veterans to and from appointments.

• YWCA Syracuse & Onondaga County received $18,500 to host programming for girls ages 5-18 to help build self-resilience, confidence, and set future goals.

The Central New York Community Foundation is a public charity established in 1927. It says it’s the largest charitable foundation in Central New York with assets of nearly $260 million and has invested more than $200 million in community-improvement projects since its inception.

State completes major bridge projects in the Southern Tier

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Feb. announced that major construction has been completed on projects that replaced or rehabilitated 15 bridges along key transit corridors in the Southern Tier and Western New York. These projects seek to enhance safety and ensure the continued flow of people and commerce throughout the regions, the governor’s office said. The

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VIEWPOINT: 2020 Hindsight: 5 Lessons for CNY Business Owners to Use in 2021

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While many businesses across Central New York are still dealing with the acute impacts of the economic and social disruption of 2020, innovative companies will apply what they have learned in order to excel in 2021. Here are five ways that companies can build resilience and weather future challenges, while being better positioned to capitalize on

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Financial discipline isn’t just for hard times

A thorough, proactive review of internal processes and key relationships can help protect your company, whereas cutting expenses in a defensive and reactive posture can have unintended consequences. Instead, create “what if” scenarios now and plan allocations for each. Businesses can find resources and help at organizations such as the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency, CenterState CEO, Onondaga Small Business Development Center, Syracuse Economic Development Corporation, Mohawk Valley EDGE, [and The Agency – Broome County IDA/LDC, to name a few]. Then, if the time comes, you can respond with a thoroughly vetted plan.

Don’t let uncertainty deter you from growth

The M&A market shifted in 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus and widespread digital transformation. Companies with strong working capital and cash reserves could have a significant opportunity to put that to work through a merger or acquisition, especially if they have limited debt.

If your company is not in a position to pursue M&A activity, develop a strategic plan for future growth. Start by identifying the top opportunities facing your company right now and consider the potential hurdles you’ll face in pursuing these opportunities. This will help you formulate an actionable, prioritized plan specific to your situation.

Cybersecurity is critical, especially for those working from home

Cybercrime is more of a risk in today’s remote-work environment, so companies must prepare themselves. Workers are less protected when working from home, resulting in criminals launching malware campaigns targeting people with insufficiently secured devices. Last summer, one local company discovered that its clients’ personal information may have been compromised in a suspected ransomware attack, driving home the importance of cybersecurity training. Such training can teach employees how to put essential safeguards in place, as well as provide guidelines on the safe use of public Wi-Fi and the importance of VPNs and well-protected home routers.

ESG strategy is no longer just for the big guys

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is far from a feel-good, concessionary strategy — it helps manage risk and enhance returns, and it can be directly linked to a company’s long-term outlook.

Best practices for strengthening your company’s ESG commitments include disclosing comprehensive ESG information, having a diversity and inclusion program, and ensuring diverse representation on the board of directors.

Invest in your employees

Just as you’re taking steps to safeguard cash flow and business operations, it’s essential to protect the wellbeing of your employees. Management should support employees even more holistically and proactively than before. Comprehensive wellness programs that support employees’ physical, mental, and financial health are more important now than ever before.

The coronavirus created unprecedented challenges for local businesses, and Central New York executives bravely faced new trials. While no one can predict what’s to come in 2021, these lessons from 2020 can help companies reignite growth and plan for financial success in the year ahead.

Michael Brunner is Senior Vice President of Global Commercial Banking and Central New York Market President for Bank of America.

New York milk production increased more than 2 percent in December

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New York dairy farms produced nearly 1.3 billion pounds of milk in December, up 2.2 percent from almost 1.27 billion pounds in the year-ago month, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. Production per cow in the state averaged 2,070 pounds in December, up 2.2 percent from 2,025 pounds a year prior. The number of

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Salt City Market opens with neighborhood-entrepreneur vendors

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SYRACUSE — The newly opened Salt City Market boasts it offers “regional and international cuisine from entrepreneurs in your neighborhood” and is the “food hall for all.” Salt City Market, located at 484 S. Salina St. in Syracuse, formally opened Jan. 29. The two anchor tenants in the 78,000-square-foot, four-story building are the Syracuse Cooperative

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SYRACUSE — The newly opened Salt City Market boasts it offers “regional and international cuisine from entrepreneurs in your neighborhood” and is the “food hall for all.”

Salt City Market, located at 484 S. Salina St. in Syracuse, formally opened Jan. 29.

The two anchor tenants in the 78,000-square-foot, four-story building are the Syracuse Cooperative Market and Salt City Coffee. Other tenants include food entrepreneurs like SOULutions Sley’s Southern Cuisine; Baghdad Restaurant; Big in Burma; Firecracker Thai Kitchen; Pie’s The Limit; Cake Bar; Erma’s Island providing “Jamaican dining at its best;” Mamma Hai; and Miss Prissy’s, per the market’s website.

Some vendors at the newly opened Salt City Market are hiring workers. For example, Erma’s Island is looking for an AM/PM prep cook and cashier and the Firecracker Thai Kitchen is also seeking an AM/PM prep cook, a PM line cook, and a cashier. Other vendors also had some similar job openings.

Salt City Market’s Jan. 29 opening attracted consumers immediately, according to its Facebook page and also photos from the event.

“We’ve been open for less than two hours and the response has been absolutely incredible!,” the organization posted on Facebook. The same post also advised would-be patrons that “in order to maintain capacity, there is a line outside — however, it moves quickly and the wait has only been 5-10 minutes.”

Besides the food-related tenants, the Salt City Market will also include 26 apartments and space for the Allyn Family Foundation.

The market’s website also says organizers started thinking about the project earlier this century. Then, the Allyn Family Foundation formed the nonprofit-operating entity, the Syracuse Urban Partnership, to make the project a reality.

Through the nonprofit, the Allyn Family Foundation in 2018 assembled the construction and design team to work on the project.

VIP Architectural Associates, PLLC of Syracuse, along with New York City–based ICRAVE and Minneapolis, Minnesota–based Snow Kreilich Architects, were selected to design the building. They worked to design a building that would “fit our unique urban setting, that would work well for our small businesses, and would be a place where people of all walks of life would want to gather together,” per the market’s website.

Throughout the process, the foundation held a series of focus groups and community gatherings to “ensure that everyone in Syracuse could feel connected and invested in the project,” the website says.

Construction started in the fall of 2019.

The Allyn Family Foundation committed about $25 million toward the project and was able to secure a series of grants and tax credits.

In the fall of 2020, “in partnership with the Rose Urban Green Fund and JP Morgan Chase,” the project received new market tax credits, per the website. It marked “only the second time” that a real-estate project in Syracuse had ever secured new-market tax credits.

Project origin

The Salt City Market is based on a model built by the Neighborhood Development Center (NDC) located in Minneapolis.

The nonprofit NDC has helped start more than 400 businesses in the Twin Cities region. Many of those business launched in the Midtown Global Market, a large public market owned and managed by NDC.

NDC has “long had a connection to Syracuse” through its partnership with the Upstart program, which CenterState CEO operates. Through that existing relationship, the Allyn Family Foundation teamed up with CenterState CEO and NDC to develop a “similar concept” for the food hall that is under construction in Syracuse.

Syracuse-area businesses deploy HealthWay-donated air purifiers

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SYRACUSE — HealthWay of Pulaski on Feb. 3 announced it donated Intellipure air-purification systems to 18 Syracuse businesses or organizations, including several restaurants. The air purifiers will help to improve air quality in these indoor spaces and “promote cleaner air,” CenterState CEO said in a news release. The donation “represents an effort to connect local

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SYRACUSE — HealthWay of Pulaski on Feb. 3 announced it donated Intellipure air-purification systems to 18 Syracuse businesses or organizations, including several restaurants.

The air purifiers will help to improve air quality in these indoor spaces and “promote cleaner air,” CenterState CEO said in a news release.

The donation “represents an effort to connect local businesses impacted by the pandemic with local products to support their safe operations,” it added.

CenterState CEO; the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc.; the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce; Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh; and Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon joined Vinny Lobdell, Jr., global president of HealthWay, to make the announcement.

Those involved announced the donation at the Onondaga Historical Association, one of the system recipients.

HealthWay donated and installed the systems. The company also trained and educated the businesses and organizations on how the systems operate and their “efficiency” so they could share that information with employees and customers.

HealthWay worked with CenterState CEO, the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, and the City of Syracuse to determine which businesses had needs, CenterState CEO said.

McMahon told the gathering that the data indicates restaurant sales-tax generation for 2020 declined “well over 20 percent. And that is no joke,” he said. “Our community’s going to rally like no other to support our restaurants over the next few months.”

The units, recipient reaction

The Intellipure system is a medical-grade, air-purification system that captures and permanently removes viral and bacterial particles from the air, down to .007 microns — smaller than the coronavirus — through its disinfecting filtration system (DFS) technology. Each compact unit protects up to 500 square feet and is individually tested and certified to exceed traditional HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filtration, “providing the highest level of ultrafine particle and virus removal,” per the release.

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This machine’s very easy to install. It’s wall mountable. You can plug and play, so there’s not a lot of engineering around it. You don’t have to customize it. This would give very effective cleaning in a space up to 500 feet,” said Lobdell, when asked if the machine on display at the OHA event would be one that restaurants would use.

Lobdell also noted that many of the purifier recipients have supported HealthWay “in various ways, and it only made sense.”

In total, HealthWay’s donations represent a $20,000 direct investment in businesses within some of the industries “hardest hit by the pandemic,” CenterState CEO said. The donated purifiers that HealthWay manufactured in Oswego County are the same as those that are now in use in industries and facilities “globally,” including school districts in Syracuse, Chicago, and New York City, and Upstate University Hospital, Crouse Hospital, and hospitals in the New York City area.

“This machine is a medical-grade air cleaner, so what this is going to do is going to change the air in the space in a 500-square-foot space two to three times an hour,” Lobdell said at the OHA event. “It’s going to remove the smallest, ultra-fine particles, so all of our machines have been tested against COVID-19-sized particulate. They do surrogate testing. So, those particulates that you’re talking about are generally much larger than the small, ultra-fine particle. These machines are generally meant to remove the really small particulate that are floating in the air that are ingested, inhaled, and can make us sick.”

Kitty Hoynes, an Irish pub and restaurant in downtown Syracuse, “certainly pivoted a lot” in 2020, making sure that its staff and customers were safe and “these beautiful units here certainly helped that,” David Hoyne, publican at Kitty Hoynes, said about the air purifier.

“We can do a lot of things in the restaurant. We can create great food, beverages, present them properly, but the one thing we can’t do is anything about our fresh air and certainly HealthWay has given us that solution … We have a fighting chance now,” said Hoyne.

“As a childcare program serving children in the middle of this COVID-19 pandemic, clean air is a critical piece of promoting a safe environment for children to learn and play while parents are working,” Tanika Jones, owner of It Takes a Village Family Daycare of Syracuse, said in the release. “We are grateful for the gifts of two Intellipure air purifiers that we otherwise may not have been able to afford, considering we are a small business operating on a small budget during this difficult time.”

A pandemic can present business opportunities, McMahon noted in his remarks, referring to HealthWay.

“When you look at the fact that we have a fast-growing company in Central New York … giving back to the community so that our restaurants can market themselves so people can feel confident and comfortable … they can go to their favorite restaurant, have a meal, and be safe.”

Cornell engineering startup wins NFL innovation contest

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ITHACA — Organic Robotics Corporation (ORC), an engineering startup at Cornell University, captured prize money in the 6th annual NFL 1st & Future competition, sponsored by the National Football League. ORC won with its stretchable sensing technology, Light Lace, and topped a field of four finalists. The finals were televised Feb. 2 on the NFL

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ORC won with its stretchable sensing technology, Light Lace, and topped a field of four finalists. The finals were televised Feb. 2 on the NFL Network, during the run-up to the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.

Cornell University graduate Ilayda Samilgil and Rob Shepherd, an associate professor at Cornell, co-founded the company. Samilgil developed wearable athletic performance-analysis technology in Shepherd’s organic-robotics lab. Shepherd is associate professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

ORC won the $50,000 grand prize in the Innovations portion of the 1st and Future competition. The runner-up team, which took home $25,000, was Genesis Helmet, which is developing a better-performing football helmet focused on the brain rather than the skull.

When host Colleen Wolfe announced the results on the prerecorded telecast, Shepherd and Samilgil — who gave their presentation at Cornell Broadcast Studio — were overjoyed and clinked their coffee mugs together in celebration.

Samilgil said ORC will invest its winnings back into the company, “to employ a great team and start pilot testing our wearable solution.”

ORC, which was founded in 2018, has received support from the Praxis Center and the Center for Technology Licensing, both on the Ithaca campus, and from the National Science Foundation’s Upstate New York I-Corps Node.

Samilgil, a native of Turkey, says she wasn’t familiar with American pigskin football. The only football she knew was the type Americans call soccer.

“This [lack of knowledge] helped me go into this without any personal bias,” said Samilgil, the CEO of ORC, who majored in mechanical engineering and minored in entrepreneurship and innovation.

About the product

Light Lace uses light to measure muscle fatigue and respiration, as described by Cornell. This stretchable sensor can be integrated into garments or even helmets. The information generated can help athletes and training staff better assess injury-risk factors and optimize performance.

Shepherd’s lab has been developing this technology for six years, for an array of other applications. They include pressure monitoring for diabetes patients, monitoring in-vehicle passenger behavior, improving AR/VR (augmented reality and virtual reality) training, and giving robots a sense of touch.

“Each student who’s worked on this has helped march the science toward the simplest engineering solution — using light to quantify touch and gesture — with the most technological benefit,” Shepherd said. “I’ve been blessed with amazing and brilliant students.”

But it was Samilgil, Shepherd said — along with current doctoral student and lab member Hedan Bai — who thought of applying it to athletic performance.

“I’m a big fan of [Samilgil’s] vision for the company,” Shepherd said.

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