Mancuso Business Development Group

09/08/2025

BATAVIA — B. Thomas “Tom” Mancuso said he was on the job for about 15 years before he fully grasped the far-reaching economic impact of the Harvester Center, the world’s

09/02/2025

Business incubation is alive and well thanks in large part to the expertise of Batavian Tom Mancuso, according to a University at Buffalo professor at the forefront of entrepreneurship and

04/21/2025

CREATE LOCAL OPPORTUNITY FOR JOBS & PROSPERITY

We all seek financial security and independence. A vibrant local economy with a variety of businesses and industries generates more possibilities for prosperity for people. Make your town a “Community of Opportunity” by developing incubator spaces and support systems that make an impact.

Most business establishments are small. In the US and Canada, approximately 57% have 4 employees or less [75% have 9 or fewer]. In Europe, those proportions jump to 90% and 95%, respectively. These sorts of enterprises benefit from the small, flexible, business-friendly environments delivered by incubators focused on hometown jobs. Empty or underutilized factories, commercial buildings, schools, and churches, can be the ”raw material” to provide needed micro and small spaces [100 SF to 2,500 SF] for entrepreneurs to get started, survive, and grow. Strategically planned and operated incubators are both a tool and the funding source for such endeavors.

In the absence of an appropriate building, community-centric support systems can be creatively implemented. Organizing gatherings of local business owners to share “best practices”, establishing mentoring programs, and starting strategic rent subsidies for targeted industries are just a few examples of incentives that might be able to be developed.

You are who you are - Be local, be sustainable. Nobody cares more about your community and neighbors than you. Find ways to use local resources to structure systems that take advantage of your town’s unique character to be successful in “the long game” of ongoing business attraction. Do it by coordinating existing components [people & places] or establishing a focused business incubator to lead the ecosystem efforts.

Jobs need space. Business incubators can be your key to unlocking [and paying for] the endless effort for economic development required in our rapidly changing world. An effective, financially sustainable incubator facility provides a foundation for community success. Take advantage of the empty or underutilized industrial and commercial buildings in your hometown to create a “Community of Opportunity” for you and your neighbors!

Learn to fill buildings with businesses to create jobs and prosperity in your community. Sustainable business incubator strategies are revealed for economic development, adaptive reuse, and brownfield situations by the family that invented the concept explores the strategy, startup, and opera...

01/29/2025

REINDUSTRIALIZATION OPPORTUNITY TO REVITALIZE BROWNFIELDS

The massive movement to make what we need in our country is a fabulous chance to take advantage of existing underutilized industrial properties to meet short-term needs and grow our next generation of manufacturers.

Those B.O.B.s [Big Old Buildings] that many places consider a problem can now be transformed into value-creating solutions. Brownfields come in all shapes, sizes, and conditions. Many times there are significant useful components comingled with more difficult or unusable sections. As short-turnaround or quick-start projects arise, the better building areas can provide timely space while new structures are built. For some older facilities, their compartmentalized layouts that present an obstacle to big production can provide very useful space to establish business incubators for startups and small producers.

The need is NOW so let’s put those B.O.B.s back to work making products and prosperity for our communities and country!

RBA says energy and utility infrastructure, transportation, and real estate are top sectors within the theme of US reindustrialization.