A veritable who’s who of local, county, state and even federal officials headed over to the Fountain Flats Business Park, which will soon house Ferguson Enterprises, the nation’s largest distributor of plumbing supplies.
Read MoreDucommun started business in Greene County in 1977 as DynaBil Industries, started by local entrepreneurs Mike Grosso and Hugh Quigley. The company makes high-precision parts for aircraft and aerospace applications, and has long been a company of choice for aerospace giants such as Boeing, Sikorsky and Pratt and Whitney. Aircraft such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Boeing’s Dreamliner rely on parts made in Greene County.
Read MoreNew York Zipline Adventures is a substantial tourist attraction located at Hunter Mountain. The Zipline experience involves two Adventure Tours: the SkyRider Tour, which involves 4.6 miles of zipline and is the longest, fastest and highest zipline tour in North America; and the Mid-Mountain Tour, which is a family-friendly tour that involves ziplining, rope bridges, rappelling and other activities in a three-hour adventure.
Read MoreYoung’s Prattsville Agway has been a mainstay of retail business in Prattsville for over 50 years. The Agway has been like many other rural stores of its type, stocking hardware, feed and other rural essentials.
Read MoreThe Greene County Chamber of Commerce hosted a Business Roundtable with Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk on Monday, September 15. The Senator and attendees engaged in a lively conversation on issues facing New York businesses. The Senator and her staff have taken what they heard back to Albany to work on solutions to the issues discussed. The discussion took place at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill.
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Read MoreNew York Spring Water started with one of the simplest business concepts imaginable: bottling pure spring water from the Catskills and shipping it to areas that need it.
Read MoreIn West Kill, about 40 miles west of Hudson, another former Brooklynite, Casey Scieszka, just opened the nine-room Spruceton Inn. “I think what most former New Yorkers up here have in common is a desire for freedom,” says Scieszka, who runs the hotel with her husband. “Which can seem like a funny thing to say is lacking in NYC, but I’m talking about a freedom to build something for yourself that will be more than a tiny drop in a huge ocean, to live life at the pace you please, to feel like there’s something more important than the rat race.”
Read MoreNew York Spring Water is a water bottling and processing facility in the Town of Halcott near Vly Mountain. The company opened its doors in 2009 and completed a substantial expansion and renovation of its facilities in 2011-13, part of which had to be re-done after damage to the company’s building and spring from Hurricane Irene. The company was founded by Richard and Luke Zakka, a father-and-son team who scouted Upstate New York for a spring with suitable quantity and quality of water for their new company. The business employs approximately 30 workers in the smallest town in Greene County.
Read MoreDonna Williams has not had the traditional career path. A one-time “Master of the Universe” on Wall Street and in Los Angeles, Williams has become an entrepreneurial powerhouse in the Historic River Town of Athens with Field Goods, a business that connects the consumer with food from small farms on a subscriber basis.
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