While living in New York City eight years ago, Joshua Auerbach came up with an idea to open a black and white cookie bakery.
He created and registered a Web site, blackandwhitecookies.com, but it took four years before he was able to begin producing his cookies, Auerbach said.
Auerbach, president and chief executive officer of The Black & White Cookie Co., started his business in a Binghamton church in 2004 and looked at a few sites before leasing his current space on Griswold Street and setting up his baking facility there in July 2006.
Production started a month later, Auerbach said.
The move from New York City to Binghamton four years ago was dictated by financing, he said, as the local area had relatively inexpensive real estate costs compared with other locations throughout the state.
Having the cookies made in New York was necessary because that’s the state where they were born, Auerbach said.
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