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Herkimer County IDA holds public hearing on Pacemaker Steel’s $17 million application; no public comment
Summary
The Herkimer County Industrial Development Agency held a public hearing April 17, 2026, on Pacemaker Steel and Piping Co.’s request for sales- and mortgage-tax incentives for a proposed manufacturing facility estimated at $17 million; no members of the public spoke and the hearing was closed.
The Herkimer County Industrial Development Agency opened a public hearing at 9:00 a.m. April 17, 2026, in Frankfort to review an application from Pacemaker Steel and Piping Company Inc. requesting assistance through sales-tax and mortgage-tax incentives for renovation, equipping and financing of a manufacturing facility, agency officials said.
The agency read a published notice saying the project would involve renovation, reconstruction and equipping of a steel fabrication, mechanical piping and HVAC contractor facility at 232 Industrial Park Drive in the Town of Frankfort, Herkimer County. The notice included an estimated project cost of $17 million and described the site’s size with garbled wording in the transcript as "141,000 uh 72 square foot," which the record does not resolve.
The Chair read that a copy of the company’s application and the agency’s costs-and-benefits analysis were available for public inspection during business hours at the agency office and that written comments could be sent to John J. Piseck Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Herkimer County Industrial Development Agency, at 420 East German Street, Suite 101A, Herkimer, NY 13350. The agency provided a contact telephone number in the notice.
The Chair invited members of the public to comment; no one spoke during the hearing. "Any person wishing to make a comment is invited to do so at this time," the Chair said before closing the hearing. Having received no oral comments, the Chair closed the public hearing at 9:11 a.m.
The hearing record will be transcribed and the agency will make the transcript available to its members; written comments directed to the chief executive officer will be accepted and become part of the record. The application will be reviewed by the agency before the board considers whether to offer incentives under Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law.
Next steps for the project—whether the agency will approve tax-exemptions, the timing of any inducement resolution, or the precise facility square footage—were not decided at the hearing and were not specified in the record.
