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Incentives
There are many good reasons to locate a business in the Town of Big Flats:
- Employers located in the Empire Zones enjoy wage tax credits, discounts on electricity, telecommunications, and other services, tax breaks, and other state programs to encourage continued growth and development. Click for more on the Empire Zone benefits from Southern Tier Economic Growth (STEG) and Economic Development Information for New York State from Empire State Development
- There are many rural properties and small housing developments that provide modern, quality, living in a quiet private environment. There are large shopping centers like the Arnot Mall and Consumer Square.
- Consumers stream into Big Flats on a daily basis from Elmira, Corning, Watkins Glen, and Northern Pennsylvania. Big Flats is the largest regional retail area.
- Easy access to all points of the state by the Interstate Highway system.
- Convenient access to a full-featured regional airport with nearby hotels with deluxe suites and meeting rooms for corporate training sessions and meetings.
- Among the companies already located in Big Flats are: Sikorsky Hawkworks, Schweizer Aircraft, Corning Incorporated, Guthrie Medical Services, Orthstar Software, Sam’s Club, Lowes Building Supply, General Revenue Corporation, Imaging and Sensing Technology Corporation, and Hilton Hotels to name a few.
Airport Corporate Park & Corporate Park South
The 480 acre Airport Corporate Park and Corporate Park South is strategically located adjacent to the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport and on the North and South sides of Interstate-86 Exit 50 at Kahler Road.
The mixed-use park is zoned for general and professional offices, manufacturing, and ancillary uses. The park provides all necessary utilities, public water, sewer, telecommunications (DSL, Cable, Fiber), gas, electricity, and direct access onto Interstate-86.
Current park tenants include Orthstar, Provisions Modular Hardware, Imaging and Sensing Technologies, General Revenue Corp., Hunt Engineers, Corning Community College, and CeMeCon.
More information on these two development parks is available from Empire State Development at:
Major Employers in Big Flats
Looking for employment opportunities? Big Flats has several major employers in all fields from Engineering to Research Development to Manufacturing to Retail.
- Product or Service: Laboratory glassware
- Product or Service: Automation systems, process instrumentation machine and fabrication, CNC machining, Comax laser level measuring device
- Product or Service: Fortuna Energy explores to find and develop natural gas by:
- Leasing oil and gas rights on tracts of land
- Conducting seismic surveys to locate possible drilling sites
- Drilling wells and testing for economic viability
- Building gathering systems to tie productive wells to regional pipelines
- Operating the well to safely maximize production
- Product or Service: Architects/Engineers/Surveyors
- Product or Service: GRC offers full-service collection programs tailored to the needs of education clients. With a client base that includes over 800 institutions, GRC is the largest college and university-focused collection agency in the country
- Product or service: Nuclear instrumentation; electrical penetrations, analytical light sources; radiation tolerant inspection cameras; high temperature cameras; hand-held gas monitors
- Product or Service: Software engineering; system development for industrial automation, aerospace, aircraft, railroads and power generating utilities, railroad and transit simulators
- Product or service: They produce products in five core business sectors: helicopters, reconnaissance aircraft, unmanned vehicles, aerospace subcontracting and rapid prototyping.
- Product or service: They develop, produce and market instruments, implants and biomaterials for the surgical fixation, correction and regeneration of the human skeleton and its soft tissues.