Gloucester offers a number of tax incentives to businesses interested in locating in Gloucester. An example would be a City Tax Increment Finance Place (TIF) on eligible new construction. The Gloucester EDIC and the City's Community Development Department will support new tenants in Blackburn Industrial Park in designing cutting-edge facilities that take full advantage of the opportunities for energy efficiency & high environmental performance.
The EDIC will link your design team with the following service providers, and assist you in coordinating their efforts on the behalf. Hundreds of companies across the state have taken advantage of the programs listed here to correct problems and save money by addressing energy and environmental inefficiencies in existing facilities. We want to help you design it right the first time.
New England Electric Services (NEES) Design 2000 services gives developers the opportunity to reduce building electrical consumption and operating costs, up front by integrating energy efficiency into their new constructional plans. Through an integrated design process drawing on the experience of customer¹s design team and NEES company¹s consultants, the team examines the state of the art energy efficient design features and equipment options. Design 2000 helps customers make smart choices.
Key features of Design 2000 include, Technical Assistance, Cash Incentives, Design Incentives, and Commissioning Services. For Heavy water-users, NEES will also provide a screening-level assessment of opportunities for water-use reduction and water re-use, including a projected cost-benefit analysis. The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) for Toxics Use Reduction provides free, confidential analysis to help companies eliminator reduce the use of materials, which pose health, safety and/or environmental concerns.
In cases where toxics cannot be eliminated from a process, OTA helps the company look for ways to ensure that the least waste is produced; making sure process are as efficient as possible. OTA¹s focuses pollution prevention a cost-effective approach with bottom-line benefits resulting from loss prevention, increased worker safety, and reduced treatment/waste disposal costs and, in many cases, reduced regulatory burden. Merrimack Valley Manufacturing Partnership (MVMP), assists small manufacturing companies to become certified in ISO 14000.
This environmental standard is becoming significantly more important to companies, which are suppliers to larger firms that require certification. MVMP staff will assess your operation to determine the need for specialized outside resources, assist you in securing the services you need and work with you through implementation. WasteCap of Massachusetts offers a variety of services that target solid waste issues head-on and help companies find workable, cost-effective solutions. WasteCap¹s resources include volunteer teams of waste assessors which can provide site-specific source reduction and recycling ideas, as well as workshops, a newsletter and WasteCap On-line, on the Internet.²link to: Department of Revenue site map for Tax Information:
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