Page 44, a tenant of the our supporting member Syracuse Technology Garden, announced it has signed a deal to develop new video games for Disney Interactive Studios based on the globally successful "High School Musical Franchise." The games for Wii,™ Xbox 360,® and PlayStation®2 are being created by Chris Klamm, Page 44's Syracuse studio director, in conjunction with other Page 44 studios in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

The Tech Garden also announced a new tenant: SentryLight, developer of a fully concealed emergency lighting system. Invented by a firefighter, the SentryLight system is hidden inside the wall until the event of an AC power failure and is UL approved for installation at any height. Chief Marketing Officer Adam Lilien and Director of Operations Yong Zhang will be working out of the Tech Garden to develop other life-safety products.

Syracuse Community Test Kitchen, which shares space with SU's South Side Innovation Center.

Several of 15 partitioned spaces on the ground floor of the South Side Innovation Center in Syracuse

BIA/NYS welcomes to membership the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), a large and very modern microenterprise business incubator affiliated with the South Side Entrepreneurial Connect Project at Syracuse University. The entire project operates under the auspices of the Whitman School's Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises.

SSIC occupies a beautifully renovated former warehouse adjacent to the Dunk and Bright furniture showroom on South Salina Street, a main commercial corridor leading from the South Side to downtown. SSIC includes 15 private partitioned spaces on the ground floor, open space for presentations and training, a well equipped computer training lab, and a resource library with computer workstations that can be used by resident and "virtual" tenants alike. Some photos appear in our gallery. An additional seven partitions are under construction on the second floor, and also offices that will be used by a "mentor/protegé" project being introduced by Managing Director Monica Hughley (watch for further news).

Other components of the South Side Entrepreneurial Connect project housed at the same facility include the Syracuse Community Test Kitchen, operated in partnership with SUNY Morrisville State College's Nelson Farms co-packing enterprise, and the WISE Center (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) a counseling and support program for women entrepreneurs. The entire facility also provides a focal point for student consulting teams from SU to work with both resident and non-resident entrepreneurs in the South Side.