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Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon & Centerstate CEO President Rob Simpson share observations about the approval of the Micron chipmaking project's environmental and tax incentive agreements.

The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency approved both environmental and tax-incentive agreements for Micron to begin construction on a massive chip fabrication plant in Clay.

The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency will wait a day to vote on accepting the Micron environmental impact report & approving a tax-incentive package to allow the project to move forward.

Residents want more accountability and money for local impacts it the tax and incentive deal for the Micron project.Onondaga County officials are set to finalize it Nov 17.

County executive McMahon originally thought the statement release would happen in early June. He calls the process "pretty substantial" and reassured residents, "Everybody wants to get it right."

State and federal environmental reviews are still underway and won't be completed until mid-December.

Uniform Tax Exemptions for housing developers and eminent domain at 2 former Shoppingtown Mall stores.

OCIDA wants to hear from DeWitt residents as to why District East should be built.

The county has purchased about two dozen properties since 2019 to expand the White Pine Commerce Park in hopes of landing a semiconductor plant.

Property owners on Burnet Road in Clay have been told for years that there are big plans for White Pine Commerce Park, but nothing has ever come to fruition. Proponents of the CHIPS act say a deal to land a major chip manufacturer is closer than ever.