Eastman Business Park

monument. In the decades following 1890, Kodak Park was constructed to meet the massive demand of Eastman Kodak Company's photographic and motion picture film products. The park would eventually become the largest photographic product manufacturing facility in the world, employing over 15,000 employees in over 154 different buildings spanning its 1,300 acres. In the mid-2000s, Eastman Kodak began downsizing its film manufacturing operations due to the shrinking demand for film. A number of unused buildings were demolished in 2007. On November 11, 2008, Eastman Kodak officially renamed Kodak Park "Eastman Business Park" and began an aggressive marketing campaign to attract new tenants to the park. During the bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak in 2012, Eastman Kodak began selling off a number of large assets in Eastman business park as it continued to downsize; this included its coal power plant, as well numerous other land and building assets. The park has been used as a filming location for several television series and films, including the 2019 automobile racing reality competition series Hyperdrive. == Controversy ==

In 2012 it was revealed that Kodak had stored uranium in an underground lab for almost 30 years. The material was used for research in a Californium neutron flux multiplier. Although the uranium was considered weapons-grade, it was not present in large enough quantities to construct a weapon with. ==Companies and institutions in or near the Eastman Business Park==

As Eastman Kodak downsized, the manufacturing facilities were leased out to both established and start-up manufacturing companies. members of Eastman Business Park Include: • Acquest Development • American Fuel Cell • DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability • DuPont Danisco • Guardsmark • Kodak Alaris • Khuri Enterprises • NOHMs Technologies Inc. • NY-BEST Test Commercialization Center / DNV-GL • OmniID • ON Semiconductor • Optimation • Orthogonal • Ortho Clinical Diagnostics • Premise Health / AO Safety • Proton Innovations • Quintel • RAPA (Rochester Association of Performing Arts) • RED (Recycled Energy Development Co.) • R-Display & Lighting • Rochester Silver Works • Safety Solutions • SiGNa Chemistry • Transparent Materials • VFX • Xpedx • Yaro Enterprises ==Future of Eastman Business Park==

Eastman Business Park has been described as a vital part of Rochester, NY's economic growth efforts. State and local governments and Eastman Kodak Company itself have been steadily working towards turning Eastman Business Park into an innovation hub which would attract large companies as well as small start up companies with a focus on green-tech, photonics, optics and material science to the park. ==See also==