A growing national clean-energy company that specializes in using technology to ensure that buildings are energy-efficient, healthy and safe is seeking to quadruple the physical space for one of its divisions and relocate it from Lancaster to Tonawanda to meet a growing demand for renewable natural gas and battery energy storage systems.
And it seeks to do so by acquiring and renovating an existing building – with help from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. That’s after separately pursuing a relocation of its corporate headquarters to the Town of Amherst, with more tax breaks there, as the company continues a growth spurt.
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Stark Technologies Group, a real estate services and building management company on Stark Street in the Town of Tonawanda, wants to buy and renovate a 125,000-square-foot warehouse and production facility on Sawyer Avenue to enable one of its divisions, Stark Renewables, to expand its production capacity, according to its application to the ECIDA.
The facility, located at 91 and 189 Sawyer, is four times the size of the division’s current space at 1600 Commerce Parkway in Lancaster, where Stark says it now faces “significant ceiling height and infrastructure limitations” that “limit our capacity and size capability.” And it has the 30-foot-tall high-bay ceilings and high-capacity cranes that can hold up to 60 tons.
Stark says it needs that to efficiently handle the…
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