![]() ![]() ![]() Notification for employees of this decision began this week. We can’t just throw money to make them profitable, they had to make some decisions.” “The reality is they weren’t able to keep that portion of the business competitive in. “Unfortunately, businesses have to make decisions that maintain their competitiveness nationally or globally,” McDaniel said. Sigler said he had been told about 280 jobs could be lost. The total number may take two years or more to actually determine. The final number of jobs impacted is unknown, but McDaniel said it could be “as much as a quarter of the employment base over the next two years,” though with retirements and normal turnover the number will likely be less than that, according to McDaniel. The full change includes part of the operation moving to an existing facility in Mexico. Tompkins County Legislator Mike Sigler and Ithaca Area Economic Development Executive Director Heather McDaniel both lamented the closing and the loss of jobs. Grimshaw said the company had already announced its intentions to make “market-driven adjustments to adapt its cost structure in order to remain competitive in the current environment, including restructuring, closure, or consolidation of manufacturing and/or technical centers in all major regions” and that this was a result of that strategy. The company joined with BorgWarner in the 1920s, and its presence in the area has remained steady since. The facility’s presence in Tompkins County is born from the Morse Chain Company, which was founded in Trumansburg in the late 1800s. ” BorgWarner currently employs around 1,500 workers in Tompkins County, the third largest job provider in the county behind Cornell University and Ithaca College. Grimshaw said the consolidation and closure “are intended to be completed by. “BorgWarner plans to continue to invest in manufacturing in New York and continues to invest in the United States to bring successful mobility innovation to market.” Since the concept plan was first aired, the project has received some pushback from neighbors –– both residential neighbors who didn’t want a truck stop in their neighborhood, and from neighboring businesses, included a daycare in the building next door to the west with concerns about idling truck fumes and safety concerns for its children.“The company has decided to consolidate the valvetrain production facility into another existing BorgWarner facility and close the valvetrain research technical center on the Ithaca, NY campus,” said Alexis Grimshaw, the company’s public relations specialist. asked if the board might be open to a design similar in execution to the new Hector store (shown above), which seemed to generate a favorable response as they Googled and emailed each other renders and photos of the Hector building (a benefit of virtual meetings, one supposes). Dandy Mini-Mart General Manager Duane Phillips Jr. Members had suggested for a gable-style roof and architectural elements more fitting for the project’s neighbors. The proposed Lansing building has yet to be fully designed, and initial plans called for a flat roof. The Lansing store has yet to be designed, but the planning board suggested similar attention to architectural detail.Īt the concept plan meeting earlier this month, Fagan engineer Jamie Gensel stated the project’s intent was to tap into both local customers and those traveling along Route 34 from Ithaca to Auburn. Dandy acquired 805 West Buffalo Street in Ithaca (formerly Pete’s Grocery and Deli) and 825 Danby Road (formerly Rogan’s Corner), incorporating the shops into its 65-store footprint across the Twin Tiers. ![]() Headquartered across the state line in Sayre, the Dandy Mini-Mart chain has also made a concerted effort to push into the Ithaca-Tompkins market in the past few years. The store would include indoor seating for 25-35 patrons (presumably in a scenario where the pandemic is reined in). ![]() The store is expected to be programmatically similar to the new Elmira store, with the usual convenience store offerings alongside fresh offerings, a quick-serve restaurant with wraps and burgers, a coffee shop and a fairly extensive beer cave. Like some of its competitors, the Dandy Mini-Mart chain has moved to larger-format stores in recent years. Access driveways would be build onto both East Shore Drive and Ridge Road. Along with the structures would be 24 parking spaces for passenger cars and trucks, six parking spaces for heavy-duty big rigs, and the usual complement of landscaping, lighting, signage and stormwater facilities. Plans filed with the town of Lansing by Fagan Engineering call for a steel-framed 8,400 square-foot convenience store with outdoor seating, two eight-pump gasoline fuel islands with canopies and a six-pump diesel fuel island with canopy. ![]()
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