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LIST OF OTSEGO COUNTY'S FUNDED PROJECTS

D&H Yards, Oneonta Ag Hub

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Anticipation was thick inside The Egg this morning, but the announcement that Otsego County's economic development region would not get $1/2 billion from the Upstate Revitalization Fund left the local contingent downhearted. (Photo by Ian Austin for AllOTSEGO.com)
Anticipation was thick inside The Egg this morning, but the announcement that Otsego County's economic development region would not get $1/2 billion from the Upstate Revitalization Fund left the local contingent downhearted.  However, the Mohawk Valley region did receive a record $100 million, and Otsego a record $3.3 million.  (Photos by Ian Austin for AllOTSEGO.com)

No $1/2 Billion, But $3.3 Million As Consolation;

Cooperstown Gets Nothing, But Hall, NYSHA Win

Senator Seward put a good face on it – a press release said he "applauded" the outcome – but "disappointed" was the word most common heard from the local contingent this morning. With the senator, left, are county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta.
Senator Seward put a good face on it – a press release said he "applauded" the outcome – but "disappointed" was the word most common heard from the local contingent this morning. With the senator, left, are county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta.

ALBANY – While Otsego County’s economic development region failed to gain $1/2 billion from the governor’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, the county itself did the best in five years of the state’s CFA program for distributing economic development funding – $3,317,658 in all.

"The region got a record amount of money," said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford.  "And I think Otsego County received a fair share. We have needs, and we have good projects."

"Because we were a top performer, we got a lot of great projects funded that we didn't think we'd fund otherwise," said Elizabeth Horvath, COO of Otsego Now.  "I like to think of us as the first runner-up."

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Oneonta, in particular, did well:

  • $700,000 to demolish the former Oneonta Ford building at Chestnut and Market streets, now owned by the Twelve Tribes, for the Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center.
  • $500,000 to complete the infrastructure planning necessary to redevelop the D&H yards.

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