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Get to Know Your IDA

Sep 6, 2022

Uniland Development CEO Michael Montante offers insight into economic development from the commercial developer's point of view, and partnering with the ECIDA to redevelop the former Bethlehem Steel site into an advance manufacturing campus now known as Renaissance Commerce Park. Find out what role incentives play,...


Jul 15, 2022

ECIDA Board Vice Chair and Policy Committee Chair Richard Lipsitz shares his views on the incentive approval process, creating policy and how his role has a longtime labor leader in New York State informs his review of ECIDA applicants and their projects.


Jun 2, 2022

LISC Western New York Deputy Director and ECIDA Board member Tyra Johnson Hux visited the Get to Know Your IDA podcast in March 2022, to discuss how she views her role on the ECIDA Board, and talks about the many programs offered by LISC to help minority businesses in Erie County. Tyra was very involved in the COVID...


Mar 24, 2022

Invest Buffalo Niagara President and CEO Tom Kucharski discusses the business of attracting business: the important role that tax incentives play, and the sometimes complicated process of successfully attracting employers to Erie County and Western New York. Learn why our "quality of life" and remaining...


Jan 11, 2022

Learn some surprising facts about the Town of Amherst from Dave Mingoia, President/CEO/CFO of the Amherst Industrial Development Agency. Can you guess what percentage of the acreage in the Town of Amherst is commercial? Dave discusses some of the economic development history, strategies and challenges faced by...