After more than a year of planning, and a wrench that was thrown into those plans, David Stinner is finally set to open his new US itek computer manufacturing facility and tech retail center. In March 2012, he said he wanted to make his 19-year-old
company more visible by moving from an industrial area on Military Road to a more retail-friendly area at 1016 Niagara Falls Blvd. in Tonawanda.
US itek makes desktop computers, as well as those for industrial clients. That includes computers that end up in machines that cut metal or fabric, or in digital signage.
The company serves the legal, medical, manufacturing, printing and logistics industries. He called the Niagara Falls Boulevard building – site of the former Campos Photography Center – a living showroom for services and products.
It was a long time coming, he said. He planned to open last summer with financial help from the sale of his site in an industrial area at 1720 Military Road in Kenmore. But that sale never went through.
“The people who were supposed to buy the building ultimately never did,” Stinner said. “We were hoping to use the capital from that.”
He needed a Plan B and sought financing on his own. On the day before Thanksgiving, he closed on the sale of the 8,000- square-foot building, which needed new plumbing, insulation and electrical wire. The walls are up for a room that will eventually be a data center, his office and another room where computers will be built.
He said he’s grateful to M&T Bank and New York Business Development Corp. for their assistance and for his ability to finance the nearly $1.2 million project. For now, he’s working as a general contractor overseeing work at the new building while taking care of customers at his old one.
As for US itek’s former building, Stinner said his business partner, Waldemar Tiedemann, will look to lease space there.
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