At the outset of the meeting, the board heard wide-ranging presentations from both SUNY Oneonta President Alberto Cardelle and Otsego Now Chief Executive Officer Jody Zakresvky. Both leaders spoke about the various challenges each entity faces—particularly in recruitment and retention of staff.…
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Otsego Now is an umbrella organization that includes three economic development entities: the County of Otsego Industrial Development Agency, the Otsego County Capital Resource Corporation and the Oneonta Railyard Local Development Corporation.…
Campaign Underway To Keep Ioxus Here, Zakrevsky Tells City By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Otsego Now President Jody Zakrevsky may save Ioxus. “Ioxus is in the process of being sold to XS Power Batteries,” he said, appearing Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Common Council, via Zoom. Its CEO Scottie Johnson “indicated he was planning on closing Ioxus and moving the company to Knoxville, Tenn., but we worked with him to keep the facility here.” Doing so, he said,…
CLICK FOR FULL LIST OF PROJECTS State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday ONEONTA — A $420,000 grant so Andela Products Inc. can expand into the Richfield Springs Industrial Park leads off the list of grants Otsego Now is hoping to receive in this year’s round of state economic development funding, to be announced Thursday in Albany.…
ANDELA PLAN TOPS LIST State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday A $420,000 grant so Andela Products Inc. can expand into the Richfield Springs Industrial Park leads off the list of grants Otsego Now is hoping to receive in this year’s round of state economic development funding, to be announced Thursday in Albany. Otsego Now’s Director of Finance & Administration Meaghan Marino will represent her organization, which either submits or advises project sponsors on the annual local CFA applications. CFA stands…
Nick’s Diner Owner, Heegan, Zakrevsky To Advise Delgado The Goal: To Help Small Businesses Prosper KINGSTON – Nick’s Diner proprietor Rodney Thorsland, Oneonta, as well as Jody Zakrevsky, Otsego Now CEO, and Otsego Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan will represent the county on Congressman Antonio Delgado’s 19th District Small Business Advisory Committee, it was announced today. All 11 counties in the district are represented. “The district is home to more than 27,000 small businesses and self-employed owners, and I am…
Zakrevsky, 6 College Profs Agree: Clean Up Railyards SUNY’s Vogler’s Students Will Help Define Wetlands By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky met with six Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta college professors in his boardroom last night to talk about the development of an “eco-commercial park” in Oneonta’s D&H Railyards, he told a gathering of businesspeople here this morning. “We all want to see something happen there. We want to do it right,”…
HE FEARED FOR BASSETT’S FUTURE Zakrevsky: I Was Told, Don’t Pipe Any Gas To Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – When Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky arrived a year ago, he was told not to bring natural gas to Cooperstown, he said to a Cooperstown audience Monday, April 9, in one of several “Town Hall” meetings he’s convening around the county. Asked afterward who told him, he said the leadership of Otsego 2000, board…
Challenges Aplenty Aired At Otsego Now ‘Town Hall’…
Otsego Now CEO Zakrevsky Plans Cooperstown ‘Town Hall’ Tonight COOPERSTOWN – The next in Otsego Now’s series of public ‘Town Hall’ meetings is planned 5-6:30 p.m. this evening in Cooperstown Village Hall, 22 Main St. Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky will provide an overview of what the IDA does for Otsego County, discuss 2018 accomplishments, and outline what’s planned in 2019.…