Business View Magazine - November 2016

130 Business View Magazine - November 2016 industrial park, where we have two TIF districts, we have an aerospace company – Safran Aerospace, out of France - who chose to come to Rochester because of our advancement in infrastructure that allowed them to build a 345,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, aerospace composite facility,” Pollard says. Safran be- gan construction a few years ago, and by 2018, the completed enterprise will employ approximately 600 people. “So that’s a tremendously successful venture and our first Tax Increment Financing program,” Pollard de- clares. “And it continues to be a tool that we’re using to attract additional companies – some vendors and suppliers of Safran and some independent companies that just find that amount of infrastructure appealing. We have an airport, next door; we have active rail; we have a highway with public transportation; we have water and sewer capacity; we have broadband. And the city has expanded all of that with the partnership of the companies in order to make sure that we can continue to grow that industrial park.” While the city’s commercial zone already had some activity in it, Pollard says that the creation of the third TIF district helps foster even more growth: “We created a 900-acre Tax Increment Financing district to, again, expand infrastructure; this time, with a focus on high- way access points and water and sewer - more than some of the other things that an industry would need, which is entirely different than what retail and their customers would need. That district has already gen-