ITHACA, N.Y. –– On the one hand, industrialist Sean Whittaker should be happy. Incodema, the company he founded two decades ago, is spreading its wings. It’s grown slowly but steadily enough that the time has come for new digs with more space to handle the custom sheet metal projects they’ve excelled at for years.
On the other hand, it also creates a problem. The move to 1932 Slaterville Road in Dryden is all well and good, it makes reuse of a large facility that’s been vacant for years and will allow them to grow further and add more jobs. But that doesn’t do a thing for 407 Cliff Street, which Whittaker owns. The 20,000 square-foot industrial office and metalworking facility Incodema’s vacating doesn’t exactly have a waiting list of tenants; for reasons covered before, larger industrial facilities aren’t in high demand…
