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BRIEFING IN SCHENEVUS Questions Greet, Applause Affirms Mathes Appearance 75 Attendees Provided Details Of Hunt For Distribution Center By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com SCHENEVUS – “Welcome,” an audience member called out when Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes finished introducing the concept of a 250- to 600-job distribution center to a community whose commercial base dropped from 57 businesses to a handful in the last half-century. Even with 90 minutes of sometimes probing questions that followed from the 75…
OTSEGO NOW OKs OPTION DISTRIBUTION CENTER EYED FOR SCHENEVUS 250-300 Jobs, Construction In 2018 Possible By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego Now today took an option on 175 acres off Interstate 88’s Exit 18 at Schenevus, aiming to bring a 250-300 job distribution center there, perhaps as soon at 2018. The Otsego Now board of directors unanimously approved the $3,000-per-year option, which will allow the SEQRA process – the state-mandated environmental review – to begin as soon at…
Otsego Now, Twelve Tribes Spar Over Eminent Domain By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As the plans for the Mohawk Valley Food & Beverage Innovation Center move forward, negotiations for purchasing the former Oneonta Ford building have grown tense. “We’ve engaged in good-faith negotiations with the owners,” said Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes. “We’ve shared info, appraisals and environmental issues that need to be remediated.” But with the option of eminent domain on the table, a packed public hearing was held…
Council Debates Razing, Restoring Oneonta Ford Members Apply For Restore NY Grant To Tear Down Hulk At Market, Chestnut By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – There is no saving the Oneonta Ford building. “We’ve had people inspect it and structurally, it cannot support the additional two, three floors as part of the Market Street project,” said Sandy Mathes, CEO of Otsego Now. Mathes was responding in part to a letter sent by Karyl Sage and read by City Clerk…
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Merger To Delay Rural Broadband COOPERSTOWN – Word on whether Otsego County will win funding for a much-hoped rural broadband project has been put on hold until at least July, Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes told Otsego County Board of Representatives this morning. County Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, expressed dismay at the news: “Children who can’t access the Internet at home are at a severe disadvantage. re we going to have to wait four more years? That’s an entire class that…
‘FOOD-HUB SUPERSTAR’ ABOARD NYC Consultant To Study ‘Food Innovation District’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Even before she had officially been signed to conduct of the feasibility study, Karen Karp of Karen Karp & Partners, a food-hub consulting firm out of New York City, already had ideas about how to take the proposed Market Street food hub to the next level. “She said, ‘This isn’t about a food hub anymore’,” Sandy Mathes, Otsego Now president, reported this…
Otsego Now Announces Website, Shovel-Ready Site By LIBBY CUDMORE • www.allotsego.com ONEONTA Over coffee and pastries at Stella Luna early this morning, Otsego Now announced to their board that the Pony Farm site is nearing “shovel-ready” status to be listed on the brand new www.otsegonow.com website. “With this website, we’ll be able to tell businesses ‘Give us your details and in 30-60 days, we’ll get you a building permit and get you in the ground’,” said CEO Sandy Mathes. “We’ve already…
Mathes Says County Planner Stalls Pony Farm Expansion By JIM KEVLIN • for www.allotsego.com ONEONTA – The county’s “single point of contact” for economic development, Sandy Mathes, told a Citizen Voices public meeting this morning that, given interference by the county Planning Department, he is considering abandoning development of the final 25 acres in the Pony Farm Commerce Park. The county Planning Department director, Karen Sullivan, has asked the state DOT to review the Route 205 corridor from I-88 north,…