manich@leaderherald.com
JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Center for Regional Growth has been very busy to start the new year.
CRG President/CEO Ronald Peters recently briefed the Board of Supervisors’ Economic Development Committee on the commencement of 2021.
“The first two weeks in January has been horrendous,” he said.
Peters said his agency immediately had 50 business contacts 40 local and 10 from out of the area.
The CRG official told the committee of over a dozen business marketing, leads and inquiries he and his staff are fielding. They include a possible startup business in Johnstown; possible startup in the county referred by the Fulton County Industrial Development Agency; and a larger company that requested assistance for consolidation financing.
aonyon@leaderherald.com
GLOVERSVILLE The Fulton County Center for Regional Growth will transfer ownership of the former Littauer Building on South Main Street back to the city for planned demolition of the partially collapsed structure later this year.
The CRG Board of Directors on Friday approved a resolution to transfer ownership of 12-18 S. Main St. from the agency to the city.
CRG President and CEO Ronald Peters noted that there are no terms or fees attached to the transfer agreement with the necessary deed recording fee and transfer tax as the only associated costs.
“It will be a straight transfer of the property right back to the city ownership,” said Peters.
aonyon@leaderherald.com
GLOVERSVILLE The Fulton County Center for Regional Growth Board of Directors on Friday bid farewell to a long-time board member who they say helped right the economic development agency’s finances following its reorganization.
The CRG conducted its annual meeting followed by the Board of Directors’ annual organizational meeting on Friday that saw board members Timothy Beckett of Townsend Leather and Terri Easterly of Coldwell Banker each appointed to their second three-year terms.
Attorney Bryan Taylor of the Fulton County Department of Social Services was additionally appointed to his first three-year term on the board effective Jan. 1, filling the seat of departing Treasurer Ronald Olinsky of the Greco Olinsky Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.