Oneonta To Compete
For Whole $10 Million
Herzig: Winning Cuomo Contest
Will Put City Over 'Tipping Point'
By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com
![Oneonta is "a cool place" at "a tipping point," and and city will compete for $10 million in state downtown-redevelopment funds to put it over the top, Mayor Herzig told the League of Women Voters this evening. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com_](https://www.allotsego.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/herzig-at-league-.jpg)
ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig this evening announced the City of Oneonta will be submitting an application by the 4 p.m. deadline next Tuesday seeking the whole $10 million Governor Cuomo has designated for downtown redevelopment in the Mohawk Valley.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the League of Women Voters, Oneonta chapter, Herzig said the City of the Hills "has been pushing a boulder up a hill ... When you get to the top, it only takes a little push to get it over the top."
Oneonta is at "a tipping point," he said.
The $10 million, he said, is that little push, all that Oneonta needs to move dramatically forward, to leverage private investment to address the city's two key needs: more good-paying jobs and sufficient housing, now lacking "at every income level."
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