[caption id="" align="alignright" width="436"] COR Development Company, LLC continues its work on the 82,000-square-foot facility that will house Soraa, an LED lighting company relocating from California to DeWitt. The construction site is in the Collamer Crossings Business Park off Route 298 in DeWitt and near the CNY Hub for Emerging Nano Technologies. (Eric Reinhardt / BJNN)[/caption]

DeWITT, N.Y. — Construction continues on the facility that will house Soraa, a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting company relocating from California to DeWitt.

The construction work on the $90 million, 82,000-square-foot facility started in June, Tim Winters, project manager for COR Development Company, LLC, said in remarks to reporters on Friday morning.

He spoke at the Collamer Crossings Business Park near the construction site for the Soraa facility.

The office of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney invited the media to learn more about the project.

Soraa plans to relocate its manufacturing and research and development operations from and create 420 jobs.

Besides COR, Albany–based EYP Architecture & Engineering provided the design work on the project.

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by Eric Reinhardt Date: 10/30/2015 at 15:39:24