• Get to Know Your IDA

  • By: ECIDA
  • Podcast

Get to Know Your IDA

By: ECIDA
  • Summary

  • The Erie County Industrial Development Agency hosts a short discussion and interview show on various IDA topics, including how tax incentives benefit the community, what the application process looks like, tax incentives programs and how they work, other functions performed by IDAs, how your local IDA helps create private investment in your community, and more. The goal is to further understanding of what IDAs really do, and how they help our local economy.
    ECIDA 2021
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Episodes
  • EP 9 - MICHAEL MONTANTE INTERVIEW
    Sep 6 2022

    Uniland Development CEO Michael Montante offers insight into economic development from the commercial developer's point of view, and partnering with the ECIDA to redevelop the former Bethlehem Steel site into an advance manufacturing campus now known as Renaissance Commerce Park. Find out what role incentives play, and how Uniland gives back to the Western New York community.

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    32 mins
  • EP 8 RICHARD LIPSITZ INTERVIEW
    Jul 15 2022

    ECIDA Board Vice Chair and Policy Committee Chair Richard Lipsitz shares his views on the incentive approval process, creating policy and how his role has a longtime labor leader in New York State informs his review of ECIDA applicants and their projects.

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    36 mins
  • EP 7 TYRA JOHNSON HUX INTERVIEW
    Jun 2 2022

    LISC Western New York Deputy Director and ECIDA Board member Tyra Johnson Hux visited the Get to Know Your IDA podcast in March 2022, to discuss how she views her role on the ECIDA Board, and talks about the many programs offered by LISC to help minority businesses in Erie County. Tyra was very involved in the COVID PPE Grant Reimbursement program offered by the ECIDA, which helped many small black-owned businesses. For information about the many, many helpful programs LISC administers to help minority businesses, visit https://www.lisc.org/wny/ 

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    44 mins

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