All of a sudden, development is booming in Chautauqua County.
The former Silver Creek Elementary School and the former Fluvanna Elementary School in Greenhurst are poised to become apartments. The former Fairbank Farms and Castelli Cheese building in Blockville may soon be a cheese-making facility again after its purchase in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. There are discussions of a new hotel in North Harmony, construction is underway on The Lodge, owned by the Webb Family, in Mayville. Solar farms are popping up in Ashville.
These are all good developments vacant buildings finding new life, a manufacturer springing back to life, private property owners finding a new use for their land and developers seeing enough promise in the county’s post-COVID economic rebound to think more hotels and condos are needed. The projects also provide employment for hundreds of contractors and trades workers. The Vittoria Dairy Inc. project in Blockville brings even more ancillary benefits to area farm
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An Italian-based investment group has purchased the former Castelli America plant in the town of Harmony. The newly formed company said it plans to resume making cheese, though no date has been set.
BLOCKVILLE Cheesemaking may be returning to a town of Harmony processing plant closed for a year and a half.
An Italian-based investment group has purchased the former Castelli America facility following its closure in December 2019. The newly formed company, Vittoria Dairy Inc., said in U.S. Bankruptcy Court documents it plans to eventually process cheese at the 5152 Fairbanks Road plant after its $1.4 million bid for the facility and its equipment was approved in a court-supervised auction in September.