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EXPANSIONS, CONTRACTIONS AND LABOR DISPUTES An ; bn v + electrical systems, mechanical and + rep ``-TheCE NTR AL NEW YOmanufacturingRK REGI engineersON September 2021 ALOHA KRAB, a Cajun seafood chain, will 2008 Latest update on: 9/20/2021 EXPANSIONS, OPENINGS, RECALLS: Todd and Shanelle Reid have submitted electrical, systems, mechanical and plans to the City of Syracuse to turn a vacant manufacturing engineers over the next year four-story apartment building at 2520 S. and a half. Many of the new hires will work Salina Street (Onondaga County) into the from the company’s office in the Salina headquarters for ACCESS DENTAL Meadows Office Park. LABORATORIES. The business is a dental appliance startup making dentures and ALOHA KRAB, a Cajun seafood chain, will crowns that would create 50 jobs. The open a new location at the Destiny USA couple plans to acquire the building from the mall in Syracuse (Onondaga County) in Greater Syracuse Land Bank and do a summer 2021. renovation starting in fall 2020 with completion scheduled for March 2021. The AMAZON opened a delivery facility in upper two floors of the building will house DeWitt (Onondaga County) that created 50 the dental lab’s headquarters while the rest jobs by the end of 2020. The delivery of the building will house a day care center station is in an existing building at 6804 and other commercial tenants. The total cost Manlius Center Road and focuses on of the project is $4.1 million. The project delivery of bulky consumer products. has been approved for a $280,000 capital Positions are full and part-time and pay at grant by Empire State Development. The least $15 an hour. Syracuse Industrial Development Agency has also approved $572,848 in tax breaks for It was reported on April 19, 2021 that the project. AMERICAN FASHION NETWORK, a small fashion design firm on Heritage It was announced on March 29, 2021 that Landing Drive in DeWitt (Onondaga national defense contractor ALION County), has won a five-year $46.8 million SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has won contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to an $87 million, five-year Department of produce a new line of fitness training Defense contract that will create 30 to 50 uniforms for service members. The federal local engineering jobs. It will conduct contract has allowed the company to hire research and development on the electronics five new employees at its design studio and for the U.S. Navy’s vertical launching they will seek to fill three more openings in system for storing and launching missiles DeWitt. The business directly employs 16 from ships. The company’s Central New people at its DeWitt headquarters and in York operations include locations in Salina satellite offices in Los Angeles and (Onondaga County), Rome and Binghamton. Milwaukee. Specifically, they are seeking software, 1 An ANTHROPOLOGIE store opened in that allows one person to remotely operate Destiny USA in Syracuse (Onondaga multiple unmanned aerial or ground vehicles County) on June 23, 2021. The national to provide agricultural services quicker. chain carries women’s apparel, accessories, intimates, home décor, furniture, beauty The BOARD AND BAR CHARCUTERIE products, wellness items and gifts. restaurant opened in July 2021 at 208 W. Water Street in downtown Syracuse AQUA SPA FLOAT CENTER & (Onondaga County). It specializes in WELLNESS BOUTIQUE held its grand serving charcuterie boards. opening on December 15, 2020. It is located at 120 E. First Street in Oswego (Oswego It was reported on February 11, 2021 that County). The business offers float therapy, BYRNE DAIRY will build a convenience cryotherapy, infrared saunas, salt therapy, an store and gas station on Morgan Road in oxygen bar, massage chairs, a massage Clay (Onondaga County). The company therapist, relaxation rooms and an on-site plans to break ground in March 2021 on the gift store. construction of the facility. It will open in July 2021. The store will employ 25 full- ARDENE, a Canadian fashion retailer, and part-time employees. opened a store at Destiny USA mall in Syracuse (Onondaga County) in July 2021. An article on July 14, 2020 stated that BYRNE DAIRY is planning a $28 million ASM GLOBAL, the international venue expansion to its Ultra Dairy plant in DeWitt management company that operates The (Onondaga County) that would create 64 Oncenter and the St. Joseph’s Health full-time jobs. The jobs will pay from Amphitheater at Lakeview in Syracuse, held $37,000 to $54,000 a year. The expansion a job fair on September 9, 2021 to fill would allow the plant to produce dairy several positions. The hiring event took products with an unrefrigerated shelf life of place in The Oncenter Convention Center up to a year. The company started located at 800 S. State Street in Syracuse. construction on August 6, 2020 and will Some employment opportunities began as complete the addition in March 2021. early as September 14, 2021. Interested candidates can also apply online at It was reported on September 15, 2021 that asmsyracuse.com/events/2021/jobfair2021. the Onondaga County Industrial Open positions include cooks, concession Development Agency has approved workers, housekeepers, and ushers/ticket $433,677 in tax exemptions for a new takers among other positions. wastewater treatment plant that will allow BYRNE DAIRY to expand production at its It was reported at the beginning of June Ultra Dairy facility in DeWitt (Onondaga 2020 that BLUE WHITE ROBOTICS is County). The new treatment plant at the planning to open an office in The Tech facility should be operational by spring Garden business accelerator in downtown 2022. The facility currently employs 213 Syracuse (Onondaga County). The people, and the company expects to add 10 company plans to station an operations, jobs at the plant within two years after the marketing and sales team at the office. It project. will employ 30 people under a five-year plan. The company has developed software 2 CAFÉ KUBAL opened a new coffee shop businesses use the technology to measure location on December 18, 2020 at 343 occupancy levels at their establishments. Fayette Street in Manlius (Onondaga The company employs 15 people in The County). Tech Garden in Syracuse (Onondaga County) and 50 people total. The new It was announced on September 8, 2021 that investment money will allow the company CENTRO public bus service in Syracuse to expand its manufacturing in Syracuse, (Onondaga County) is looking to hire 35 – among other things. 40 bus drivers. It takes a minimum of six weeks to train a new bus driver. Bus drivers It was reported on February 12, 2021 that a and mechanics at Centro can earn $50,000 a DGX corner store will open at the corner of year with 401-K retirement options and paid South Salina and East Fayette streets in training opportunities. Qualified applicants downtown Syracuse (Onondaga County) in need a high school diploma or equivalent the third quarter of 2021. DGX is a division and a clean driving record for five years. of Dollar General and the new store is a combination of a grocery store, drug store CHARLEE’S ICE CREAM store opened on and convenience store. March 27, 2021 at 112 Kasson Road in Camillus (Onondaga County). It was reported on August 6, 2021 that a DOMINO’ PIZZA location has opened in CHELSEA’S RESTAURANT & BAR the East Syracuse Walmart store (Onondaga opened on October 5, 2020. It is located at County) at 6438 Basile Rowe. The new the former Kelley’s Bar & Restaurant on location is hiring for delivery drivers, Onondaga Hill, 5076 Velasko Road customer service representatives, assistant (Onondaga County). Chelsea’s has already managers, and shift runners. Interested hired back nearly the entire Kelley’s staff. candidates can apply at jobs.dominos.com. A CHICK-FIL-A restaurant is under A new DUNKIN’ coffee shop opened construction at 3974 State Route 31 in Clay September 28, 2020 on Erie Blvd. in DeWitt (Onondaga County) and will open on April (Onondaga County). 27, 2021. Job applications are now being accepted. Interested job candidates can text A larger DUNKIN’ serving hot breakfast CFAClay to (315) 544-3389. sandwiches is under construction at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport It was reported on November 21, 2020 that (Onondaga County). It will open in mid- to the second location of the CUSE CATCH & late August 2021. GRILL seafood restaurant opened in the DeWitt Plaza at 3179 Erie Blvd. East EASTSIDE NUTRITION opened on April (Onondaga County). 6, 2021 at 293 State Route 104 East in Oswego (Oswego County). The business is It was announced on July 28, 2020 that a a Herbalife nutrition club offering healthy group of investors are investing $51 million meal options, free body composition testing into the people-counting start-up company and community events. Wellness coaches called DENSITY. The company’s people- are also available. The company sells power counting infrared sensor technology has teas, protein shakes and protein bars. soared during the coronavirus pandemic as 3 It was reported on June 9, 2020 that Syracuse Industrial Development Agency EMPIRE POLYMER SOLUTIONS LLC, a has approved $4.9 million in tax incentives plastics recycling company, will spend $7.1 for the project. Thirty-eight additional jobs million to renovate and equip the former will be created by the new development at Syroco plant in Van Buren (Onondaga both buildings. Work is scheduled to begin County) into a plastics recycling plant in early 2022. employing 70 people. On July 16, 2020 it was reported that the Onondaga County It was reported on July 13, 2021 that Industrial Development Agency has GUADALAJARA MEXICAN approved $2.4 million in tax breaks for the RESTAURANT has opened on West Water project.