Start-Up NY expands presence in Rockland County

Rockland County picked up two new businesses in the governor”™s most recent announcement of Start-Up NY businesses participating in the economic development program on or near college campuses.

Syncsort, an international big data company headquartered in New Jersey, will expand its offices to Iona College”™s graduate education campus in Pearl River where it has been granted 50,000 square feet of space adjacent to the school. The business is anticipated to generate 144 new jobs and invest more than $2.8 million in the school and community.

Syncsort expects to open its Pearl River office in the spring.

Rockland Community College in Suffern has also attracted a company, York Analytical Laboratories Inc., to relocate its headquarters and six jobs from Connecticut to the college campus. York Analytical, which regulates contaminants in soil, water and air, will invest $130,000.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo began the Start-Up NY initiative in 2013 to spur economic development by utilizing unused spaces on college campuses around the state and guaranteeing chosen businesses no taxes for 10 years.

The program has had success mostly in western New York where the largest amount of the 157 approved companies has set up shop.