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EDC says Queensbury, North Creek projects and broadband pilots are driving local growth; warns of 340B risks
Summary
County economic development staff said ongoing deals — a possible $190 million Queensbury project and about $40 million of private investment around North Creek sewer work — are expanding year-round tourism and private investment; staff also flagged potential threats to 340B funding for rural health centers and described broadband pilot work.
Jim Shipland, an economic development representative, told the Warren County Economic Growth & Development Committee on Nov. 30 that the countyis seeing sustained growth and several large private investments as a result of development efforts. "We've been involved... a potential investment of over $190,000,000 in Queensbury," Shipland said, and he described the Queensbury opportunity as the largest of its type in Northern New York in a decade.
Shipland credited the county's decision to support the Town of North Creek's wastewater system with catalyzing private investment. "More than $40,000,000 has been committed in North Creek in 8 months since you guys made the decision to stand behind the town, support the construction of that sewer," he…
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