Properties
OEDA/IDA actively pursues the location and expansion of growing businesses. To help achieve success, the agency's staff takes an active role in coordinating and implementing project development activities by assisting the client company with business plan preparation, government loans/applications, ombudsmen services, governmental coordination and overall project management.
By maintaining a current inventory of available buildings/sites suitable for manufacturing, research & development and office activities, OEDA/IDA can prepare a list of sites suited to the interests of a prospective business. This information can then be packaged into a proposal that identifies and recommends the financing and incentive programs that best respond to the operating requirements of the business.
Orleans Development Parks
Orleans Available Industrial Buildings
Utilities and Services
Power in Western New York is among the cheapest in the nation. The Niagara Power Project, the fifth largest hydroelectric project in the U.S. with a capacity of 2.4 million kilowatts, keeps costs low. Low cost hydroelectric allocations are available in the Western areas of Orleans County. The Village of Holley operates a municipally owned electric system.
New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) supplies natural gas in Orleans County.
County villages operate municipal water and sewer systems; the primary sources of water being Lake Ontario and the Niagara River. Albion, Holley, Lyndonville and Medina have excess water system capacity and sewage treatment capacity. Over 75 percent of the rural areas in Orleans County is served by municipal water.
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Solid Waste and Recycling
Disposable rates in Orleans County are among the lowest in Western New York, and long-term disposal capacity is available at nearby facilities. Recycling is mandatory in the county.
Verizon provides the latest telecommunications products, services and facilities for Orleans County. Diverse routing for interoffice traffic, digital switching, extensive fiber optic cable placement, ISDN service and a distance learning network are all available within the County. Time Warner Cable now offers broad band cable service to most of the Orleans County. DSL is available in selected areas through Verizon.
The County's primary health care facility, Medina Memorial Health Care System, provides emergency, acute, preventative and wellness health care services with over 40 physicians on staff. Medina Memorial serves 45,000 residents in Orleans, Eastern Niagara and Northern Genesee counties. A myriad of highly specialized, state of the art health care services are available in the Buffalo and Rochester area, including Roswell Park Memorial Institute and Strong Memorial Hospital.
Orleans Transit Service (OTS), part of the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, offers regularly scheduled bus transportation, Monday through Friday, in Orleans County. OTS runs five bus routes serving Albion and Medina and all of Orleans County while offering convenient connections to Batavia and Rochester.
There are four air locations. The Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga, the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, the Niagara Falls International Airport in Niagara Falls and Pine Hill Airport in Albion.
Amtrak Rail service is also available out of Buffalo, Rochester, and Niagara Falls.