Welcome to the Mohawk Valley—a region brimming with opportunity for businesses choosing to locate or expand in New York State!
 
New York State has implemented progressive economic development strategies and aggressive financial and tax incentives to stimulate growth and job creation. The Mohawk Valley has built on its own unique regional assets to offer a competitive business climate—an exceptional quality of life, a strategic location along the Erie Canal with six counties at the geographic center of Upstate New York that link all the major metropolitan areas together, as well as a wealth of academic and research institutions and its major industry clusters.   The flourishing industry clusters include distribution, materials processing, industrial machinery and services, agriculture, financial services and information and technology.  We are proud to be home to a wealth of employers such as Walmart, ACS, MetLife, Bank of NY and to have helped secure the likes of thriving companies such as ECR International, Remington Arms, wholesale paper distributor Hill and Markes, Belgian-style ale producer Brewery Ommegang, New Hartford Sheet Metal, and Oriskany Manufacturing.
 
The region's growing concentration in information and technology, along with the existence of a promising large site on the campus of the State University of New York’s Institute of Technology, hold tremendous potential for the attraction of high tech economy employers, nanotechnology firms and support industry.  The 300-acre MarcyNanocenter property in Oneida County is currently being transformed into the largest, world class shovel-ready site for high-technology development in New York State’s Tech Valley.
 
The staff of the Mohawk Valley regional office of Empire State Development is committed to helping you every step of the way to identify and fulfill your business goals; from learning about the various economic development programs available and listening to your plans to analyzing your project and providing you with the information you need to establish or grow your company in New York State.   We’re here for you!

Kenneth Tompkins
ESD Mohawk Valley Regional Director