Operation Oswego County

Specialties

Site Selection Assistance: Our experienced economic development professionals are here to help you with your relocation and site selection process from choosing a property to the ribbon cutting and everything in between.

Financial Packaging: Operation Oswego County helps firms access appropriate financing from the federal, state and local funding sources. Of course, we also help firms secure bank financing which is always the primary source of funds for any project.

Assistance in Accessing Special Incentive Programs: We can help eligible businesses receive real property tax abatements, sales tax exemptions, job training, low interest financing, utility discounts and more.

Planning and Coordination: We can help facilitate the necessary permitting including DEC and SEQR. We also help coordinate regulatory and incentive processes at the state and federal level.

Specialized Research and Technical Assistance: OOC and partner organizations can provide businesses with information and data to assist in decision making including demographic research, business plan assistance, trend data and localized market information.

Industry/​Government Liaison: OOC staff serve on multiple local, regional and state boards.

Retention/​Expansion Program: The majority of Oswego County’s annual employment growth is typically achieved through the expansion of existing businesses and industry.

Property Management: Business Incubators, Industrial Parks, Speculative Buildings

History

Established in 1953.

The early organization, known as Operation Machine Shop, was created due to a crisis involving the closure of a local industry – a machine shop which had employed more than 250 machinists. Operation Machine Shop’s primary mission was two-​fold: to organize and plan for the area’s economy by bringing together an inventory of the assets of the community, so they could attract new industry; and to find out which areas of importance were lacking in the community and take corrective measures to provide same.

By June of 1964, the organization had begun to broaden its vision to include a future with countywide growth, thus causing it to change its name once again to its current name, Operation Oswego County, Inc.

Since 1953, Operation Oswego County has helped deliver over $ 4 billion in investments and the creation or retention of more than 23,096 jobs in Oswego County.