North Elba Town Hall (News photo Matthew Turner)
LAKE PLACID Members of the North Elba Town Council unanimously approved the hiring of Haley Breen as the town’s first-ever community development director on Tuesday evening, Feb. 9, during their monthly meeting. The next day, she was on the job. Breen was recommended by the Lake Placid/North Elba Community Development Commission’s ad hoc Development Director Group, consisting of Community Development Commission Chairman Dean Dietrich, town Councilor Emily Politi, Lake Placid village Mayor Craig Randall, village Trustee Art Devlin, Peter Roland and Kate Thompson. “She is a soon to be graduate of Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) with a Master of Public Affairs and a concentration in environmental policy,” Politi wrote in an email Tuesday after the vote. “She starts tomorrow and one of her first tasks will be to write a press release announcing herself.”
The Lake Placid Quality Inn is seen here Monday.
(Enterprise photo â Elizabeth Izzo) LAKE PLACID Representatives of a development company planning to revamp the Saranac Avenue Quality Inn asked the North Elba Town Council for a tax break last week. The town council denied the request. Representatives of Dual Development LLC, the company behind a planned rebranding and rebuilding of the Quality Inn, asked the town council on Dec. 8 to consider authorizing a PILOT agreement, or payment-in-lieu of taxes, that would give the developers a tax break for the next 10 years. Jack Kelley, the director of economic development for Prime Companies, spoke on behalf of the project before the town council last week. He was joined by Bhavik Jariwala, a partner at Dual Development LLC.