Niagara Mohawk - Economic Development

Focusing Your Efforts Strategic Economic Development Outreach Prospect Research/Mailing Lists Economic and Community Training Community Renaissance Awards Building Ready Upstate Program	Courting Your Prospects Site Inspections and Area Tours Supplier & Distributor Networks Market Research NOX Credits
Marketing Your Community Strategic Economic Development Outreach Cooperative Business Recruitment Network Opportunities	Developing Your Sites Industrial Building Redevelopment Shovelready Infrastructure Brownfield Redevelopment Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization
Helping Local Employers

Whether your goal is to focus your community development and business recruitment efforts, develop strategies and materials for marketing your community or to redevelop marketable sites and buildings and brownfields, Niagara Mohawk Economic and Community Development may be able to help.

*Applications are available in PDF format. Please print and complete the forms. They cannot be saved to file.

Focusing Your Efforts

Strategic Economic Development Outreach
The Strategic Economic Development Outreach program provides expertise and incremental resources to leverage more and better macro-level business attraction marketing and sales efforts. The goal is to generate out-of-state prospects for direct investment in the Niagara Mohawk service territory.
Program Description for Strategic Economic Development Outreach
Program Evaluation Form for Strategic Economic Development Outreach
Program Application

Prospect Research/Mailing Lists
Niagara Mohawk can help you to identify growing industries that are well suited to the assets your community has to offer. Our research staff can provide industry information and detailed company profiles to better prepare your community to respond to prospect visits. Harness our resources and experience to help develop mailing lists for your marketing outreach efforts.
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Economic and Community Training
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Community Renaissance Awards
Niagara Mohawk's Community Renaissance program recognizes the extraordinary work of communities that have undertaken the challenging task of revitalizing a valued community asset. Each year municipalities and organizations across our service area are encouraged to enter key projects for this prestigious award.
Program Description for Community Renaissance Awards
Program Application
View 2004 Awards

Building Ready Upstate Program
Many Upstate NY communities lack an inventory of quality buildings to attract new businesses. Another hurdle to overcome is the length of the approval process for constructing a new building. Empire State Development has started a program (Shovelready certification) to address the length of time necessary in permitting sites.

This program would follow the same principles of reducing the up-front time required in gaining the necessary approvals for new building construction.
Program Description for Building Ready Upstate Program
Program Application

Courting Your Prospects

Site Inspections and Area Tours
Our Economic Development team is in position to make your life easier. We'll arrange site visits and set up a comprehensive itinerary for you to become familiar with specific regions and communities that are a part of your search.
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Supplier & Distributor Networks
The Niagara Mohawk Economic Development Team will identify possible suppliers and/or distributors for your business. We will also introduce you to our state and local development allies that will help us to smooth the progress of your project.
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Market Research
The Niagara Mohawk's research department can provide you with a market research report based on your business's Standard Industrial Code (SIC). We will identify market trends and economic indicators pertinent to your industry.
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NOX Credits
Niagara Mohawk can use the sale of Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs) at below market rates when they can be appropriately applied to site location or expansion opportunities. Benefits from this service are measured in the form of jobs and investment to a community/region served by the Company.
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Marketing Your Community

Strategic Economic Development Outreach
The Strategic Economic Development Outreach program provides expertise and incremental resources to leverage more and better macro-level business attraction marketing and sales efforts. The goal is to generate out-of-state prospects for direct investment in the Niagara Mohawk service territory.
Program Description for Strategic Economic Development Outreach
Program Evaluation Form for Strategic Economic Development Outreach
Program Application

Cooperative Business Recruitment
The Cooperative Business Recruitment program provides incremental matching funds for cooperative marketing initiatives between Niagara Mohawk and regional or local economic development partners
Program Description for Cooperative Business Recruitment
Program Evaluation Form for Cooperative Business Recruitment
Program Application

Network Opportunities
The Niagara Mohawk Economic Development Team can help you stage an event, arrange site visits to like development projects, introduce you to people experienced in like projects and set up meetings with the key public and private organizations, to help you on your project.
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Developing Your Sites

Industrial Building Redevelopment
The Industrial Building Assistance program provides grants of up to $250,000 to building owners undertaking efforts to retrofit the interior electric and gas infrastructure required to convert these buildings to multi-tenant industrial use. The grants will be made through local industrial development agencies or other quasi public development corporations.
Program Description for 1ndustrial Building Redevelopment
Program Evaluation Form for Industrial Building Redevelopment
Program Application

Shovelready Infrastructure
The Shovel Ready Infrastructure program provides grants of up to $100,000 for the installation of electric and natural gas infrastructure by local development agencies to New York state designated "Shovel Ready" BuildNow NY sites.
Program Description for Shovelready Infrastructure
Program Evaluation Form for Shovelready Infrastructure
Program Application

Brownfield Redevelopment
The Brownfield Redevelopment program provides grants to fund utility related infrastructure improvements and other costs that are necessary to progress the redevelopment of a brownfield site or vacant building.
Program Description for Brownfield Redevelopment
Program Evaluation Form for Brownfield Redevelopment
Program Application

Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization
Our service territory includes a substantial number of small to medium sized urban centers and main street corridors that possess unrealized potential and are located where we often have excess utility infrastructure and capacity. As a result of public/private partnerships and planning initiatives, communities are prioritizing and implementing unique projects that impact their competitive viability, attract investment and capitalize on their distinct development potential.

This program is designed to assist communities in realizing their goals and promote "smart growth" investment in central business districts and commercial corridors.
Program Description for Main Street/Commercial District Revitalization
Program Application

Helping Local Employers
Growing Your Business? One more way that Niagara Mohawk Economic and Community Development can help companies achieve some of their business goals.