Schenectady, N.Y., September 10, 2025 – The Board of Directors of the Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority met this evening and approved seven new projects and a new parking contract.
The first project in Glenville involves the relocation of a fourth new GE Vernova supplier to Schenectady County. Outage Technology Solutions (OTS) now located in Troy, NY has outgrown their current location and considered buildings and sites in the Capital Region before selecting 9 Tower Road in Glenville at Schenectady County’s Airport Business Park. OTS will buy the building and move ten jobs to the site with the potential to add another ten jobs within the next few years. The company does precision machining work for numerous customers including the GE Vernova operation in Schenectady. The Metroplex Board approved a $50,000 relocation grant as well as mortgage and sales tax exemptions. Total investment in the project equals $2.85 million.
Chris Reville and Kyle Hoffman from OTS said, “We are very excited to be moving to the Airport Business Park in Schenectady County as our company expands to meet the growing demand for power generation products.”
Metroplex has assisted four GE Vernova suppliers move to Schenectady County in the past 24 months including three companies from out of state as Schenectady County continues to play a major role in meeting increased demand for electrical generating equipment around the world.
Staying in Glenville, the Board approved a $37,350 grant to help Adirondack Beverages to make improvements to roadways near their beverage manufacturing facilities at the Glenville Business & Technology Park. The company employs more than 400 in Schenectady County.
In Scotia, Metroplex is working with Best Companies to buy and renovate 52 Market Street, a 24,000 square foot facility on 2.7-acres. The building is vacant and is owned by Schenectady ARC. The project brings 5 new jobs to the site immediately and the potential to add 15 new jobs in the next few years. Best Companies have already received the required approvals from the Village Planning Board. The company operates Best Cleaners, CRDN Contents Restoration, as well as a local logistics company. The Market Street facility will be used as headquarters and warehouse space for the growing Contents Restoration company. Metroplex will provide a $95,000 grant plus a mortgage and sales tax exemption. The project puts the building on the tax rolls as the ARC operation was tax exempt.
Best Companies Owner Tim McCann said, “We are focusing our teams’ growth in Schenectady County because of the unique infrastructure found here, and the support and partnership from Metroplex.”
In downtown Schenectady, the board approved a $50,000 grant in support of design work at the Wedgeway Building downtown for the Electric City Community Grocery Store. The new market is finalizing grant agreements with the City, County, and State worth a total of $6.1 million and plans to sign a lease shortly once these agreements are complete. To move along with the design of the new store, Metroplex approved the required funding for this work to start now.
Electric City Community Grocery President Eric Johnson said, “We are thankful for this support from Metroplex to get the engineering and design work underway while the grocery store works through the final reviews required by the State.”
In addition, the Metroplex Board called for a public hearing on a project with BelGioioso Cheese in Glenville. Metroplex is working closely with the company as it considers additional investments in New York State. If Metroplex were to be involved with an expansion project, it must call for a public hearing, so the board completed that step on Wednesday evening. BelGioioso currently operates two facilities at the Glenville Business & Technology Park with more than 220,000 square feet of space.
The Board also called public hearings for two projects involving 427-429 Liberty Street and 1627 Eastern Avenue, both in the City of Schenectady. Metroplex is commencing eminent domain proceedings on both properties which suffer from neglect by their current owners. The board is starting the eminent domain process to acquire these properties so that they can be improved.
The final action taken by the Board was to approve a new five-year parking contract with LAZ Parking. LAZ operates parking systems in 639 cities in 44 states. As part of the new five-year pact, LAZ will provide access to “LAZgo” which allows parkers to bypass the need to download a parking app and simply scan a QR code, or a “text to pay” option.
Metroplex will be rolling out the new parking system this fall.
Metroplex is the lead economic development agency in Schenectady County’s unified economic development team. The development authority invests a small portion of the County sales tax proceeds in projects that bring new investment, jobs, and tax revenue to the community.
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