Investments made to attract high-tech jobs to the Mohawk Valley are going to pay dividends — jobs — within the next several years.

That was the message for local government officials from SUNY Polytechnic Institute Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Robert Geer and County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. at this week’s meeting of the Oneida County Association of Towns. They gave their views on what it means to have electronics company AMS AG making computer chips in Marcy and GE Global Research becoming the anchor tenant at the Computer Chip Commercialization Center that’s under construction on the adjacent SUNY Poly campus.

“These are large enough investments to move the needle in the community,” Geer said of the nanotechnology facilities that will be ramping up over the next three years. Several thousand well-paid jobs over time are anticipated.

He said steps taken to develop the site that’s suitable for a computer chip plant and build a facility nearby to foster collaborative research and development with industry partners made it possible for AMS and GE to even consider locating in the Mohawk Valley. Led by Mohawk Valley EDGE, the Marcy Nanocenter has been under development since the late 1990s

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