Businesses from DeWitt, East Syracuse and Manlius recognized
Ten local small businesses were recognized during National Small Business Week at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 18th Annual Small Business Excellence Awards luncheon in Syracuse on Friday, May 6. Small businesses were selected for the Excellence Awards based on their company’s longevity, innovation, sales growth, increased employment, ability to overcome adversity or community contributions.
Three of the 10 small businesses honored were located in the Eagle Bulletin coverage area:
Tile and Carpet Town Carpet One based in DeWitt.
Started in 1962, Tile & Carpet Town Carpet One is a second-generation, family-owned flooring retailer. Owned by Stuart Shapiro, Robert Shapiro and Stanley Speer, the company has four locations in Central New York: Auburn, Cicero, DeWitt, and Liverpool. The company also offers installations services to both residential and commercial customers for all types of flooring, window treatments, etc.
Borough Furnace, Inc. based in East Syracuse
John Truex and Liz Seru design handcrafted artisanal cookware and home-goods with a focus on sustainable production processes. Borough Furnace’s signature products are cast iron frying and braising skillets, along with hearth tools. The hands-on manufacturing process includes the design, molding and casting of each product in a sustainable manner that uses repurposed waste metal. Borough’s products are as much art as they are function. They have been featured in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Wired, The Wall Street Journal and a video for a web series with international chef, Anthony Bourdain.
Tech4kidz offers engaging technology classes and summer camps to kids ages 6-15 in the computer labs of LeMoyne College. Instructors currently offer several classes including programming, animation and game design, mobile apps, math and coding using robots. In addition, Tech4kidz works in conjunction with the Maker Zone at LeMoyne College to provide Robotics classes. The classes provide students with the skills and confidence to become makers of technology and not just users of it. These technology classes promote computational thinking and provide students with problem solving skills that they will apply in all areas of their personal and school life.
Also honored were Heid’s of Liverpool based in Liverpool; 2LS4G based in Liverpool; Upstate Imports Auto Repair, LLC based in Baldwinsville; N. K. BHANDARI, Architecture & Engineering, P.C. based in Syracuse; New York Bakery of Syracuse, Inc. based in Syracuse; Right Price Companies, Inc. based in Syracuse; and Custom Lawn-Scapes, Inc. based in Canastota.
“The 18th Annual Small Business Excellence Awards luncheon gives us the opportunity to celebrate our business community leaders for their small business successes,” said Bernard J. Paprocki, SBA Syracuse district director. “Entrepreneurs find success not by avoiding failure but by dreaming the impossible and taking chances. From Main Street stores to cyber merchants and all the companies in between, small businesses keep our economy innovative and vibrant.”
