Buildings That Create Jobs: A Guide to Business Incubators from the Family Who Invented the Concept

Learn to fill buildings with businesses to create jobs and prosperity in your community. Sustainable business incubator strategies are revealed for economic development, adaptive reuse, and brownfield situations by the family that invented the concept

Buildings That Create Jobs explores the strategy, startup, and operation of business incubators, detailing ways to find, recycle, and fill existing industrial and commercial buildings to create entrepreneurial and artisan opportunities.

Since 1959, the Mancuso family has been the touchstone of business incubation. Now, Thomas Mancuso reveals the foundational principles taught to him by his father, Joseph Mancuso, the famed originator of the business incubation concept. After managing more than eight million square feet of business incubator and business development real estate, Thomas Mancuso is a leading authority on the practice.

You will learn:

• Why real business incubators work to create jobs and make money.
• Ways to help ensure the success of businesses within an incubator.
• How to attract businesses of all sizes from anchor stores to single owners.
• The financial side of incubators and ways to fund them.
• The unique advantages of recycled buildings over new construction.
• How to deliver a value-creating program for your market
• Ideas to reduce costs while maintaining quality management.
• And much more!

Buildings That Create Jobs offers the Mancuso family’s more than 60 years of effort filling buildings with businesses to create prosperity for all involved.

Thomas Mancuso is a licensed real estate broker in the state of New York. He has addressed international audiences on business incubators. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, he has lived his entire life around industrial and commercial buildings. His company manages projects that range from filling a 680,000 square foot rural factory building to revitalizing an underperforming 16,000 square foot urban project into a profitable small business center.

B. Thomas Mancuso, SIORTom Mancuso has lived his entire life in and around industrial and commercial buildings. His experience in all facets of their existence is evident in his ability to understand the complex factors affecting their success. He has led the management of projects that range from filling a vacant 680,000 square foot rural factory building with multiple tenants to revitalizing an underperforming 16,000 square foot urban adaptive reuse project into a vital and profitable small business center.Clients have come to expect strategic solutions focused on their objectives and based on research and analysis. His willingness to explore alternatives builds confidence in the ultimate direction taken.The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors recognizes Tom as a Specialist in Industrial and Office Realty (SIOR) based on his production performance and ethics. He became a licensed real estate professional in 1974 and is a broker in the state of New York. Tom has authored articles and addressed international audiences on the productive reuse of old buildings and business incubators. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting.