August 7, 2000

Attendees:

Jeff Albert, Foit Albert Associates

David Hahn Baker, Inside Out Political Consultants

Martin Bakowski, Home Performance Professionals

Mark Jaskula, Common Council Staff

Lorraine Clemente, Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation

Bill Nowak, Common Council Legislative Staff Manager, Green Gold Board

Joseph DeMarem NYS Alternative Energy Corporation

Gary Robinson, Solar Water Systems

Paul Fuhrmann, Ecology & Environment

Robert Sanders, Foit Albert Associates

Dick Granger, Conserval Systems

Dennis Sutton, City of Buffalo Brownfield Manager

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Setting the Stage – National and Local Efforts

• Cape Charles, Virginia
• Londonderry, NH

• What features would make an eco-industrial park valuable to your business?

• Marketing plan
• Sharing of resources (marketing, communications, conference spaces, internet, employment and training facilities)
• Location, convenient to expressways and highways
• Good landlord
• Good building with enough space for possible future expansions, fits in with community
• Pre-existing relationship between the park and the community, business’ nearby, places to outsource work
• Green design
• Finding possible funding opportunities
• Livable communities initiative, seed money, economic stability of development,
• Design building so that space for future development is available – i.e. – keep SW coner open for wind turbine
• SCORE or SBA office on site to help with business development,
• Keep office space flexible or modular
• Tenants in park being each others customers
• Cellulose manufacturer at site

• How important is Green Design to your business?

• Increases worker productivity

• What mix of businesses would be compatible with yours?

• Wrap Up

An Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) has been broadly defined as:

"A cluster of businesses that work together under covenants to function in a highly sustainable manner. The ideal is to assemble a mix of tenants that can use each other’s residuals and efficiently share resources (information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural habitat).

Resources: Work & Environment Institute Website: www.cfe.cornell.edu/wei