Desginer selected for Dunkirk incubator

SUNY Fredonia has chosen a Connecticut architectural firm to design and prepare construction plans for its new high technology business incubator in the City of Dunkirk.

JCJ Architecture of Hartford, Conn., was selected from among three firms to design the facility, which will house 10 to15 start-up firms.

JCJ has a history designing high tech incubators for such organizations as Yale University and the University of Connecticut. The company also has experience in developing projects similar to the Fredonia incubator in both size and scope.

Wendel Duchscherer of Amherst will serve as engineering consultant for JCJ.

The $4 million incubator facility is expected to be between 14,000 square feet and 18,000 square feet. It will be built in Dunkirk's commercial waterfront district downtown in an Empire Zone. Fredonia State is developing the incubator through its Center for Rural Regional Development and Governance.

Tentative plans call for design work to be completed by early 2008, with construction to be completed by the spring of 2009.