t gives me great pleasure to announce that the Finger Lakes East business park is now a reality. The Cortland County BDC/IDA has secured 127 acres of prime Central New York real estate on which it is developing a commercial light industrial business park that will prove to be the area's premier site for commercial construction.

      The Finger Lakes East business park is located on NYS Route 13 in the town of Cortlandville. This Central New York location is just three miles from exit 12 off Interstate 81 and midway between Cornell University and Syracuse University. There are over forty colleges and universities within a ninety-minute drive. The Finger Lakes East business park is bordered by the Lime Hollow Nature Center, and provides a gentle sloping landscape on which to build your green facility.

      An abundant supply of qualified labor, state and local incentives, and a quaint yet progressive community makes Finger Lakes East the ideal location to build your facility. The infrastructure will have public water, sewer, electric supplied by National Grid, and gas by New York State Electric and Gas Company.

      The engineering firm of O'Brien and Gere has finished all of the pre-engineering and is in the process of securing bids for the infrastructure.

      Financing for the park is in place and construction will begin in January 2009.

      This is truly a shovel-ready site, and your economic development team at the Cortland County BDC/IDA is ready to assist you. Please call Tom Gillson at 607-756-5005 for information or for a tour of the Finger Lakes East business park.