The Hudson Valley region won big this year with $92 million in economic development funds for 84 projects.
Some of the top award winners in the region are:
- $1.2 million for the construction of a mile-long Hudson Landing Promenade straddling the Kingston and Ulster municipal boundary on an old industrial site.
- $3 million to Marist College in Poughkeepsie to establish the New York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center that will facilitate operations for technology-based firms by providing workforce training and reducing overhead.
- $2 million to develop the closed Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dover, including upgrading the Harlem Valley-Wingdale train station, retail, a golf course, community center and 200 housing units.
- $775,000 to Newburgh-based Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress to create the Hudson Valley Food Hub. The organization will provide processing and marketing opportunities to farmers and other food producers. The state said this will help retain and stimulate the farming community.
- $500,000 to Matrix Distribution Park in Newburgh, a manufacturing/distribution facility. The goal is to attract a Fortune 500 company to the park, at the intersection of I-84 and I-87.
- $1 million to Touro College to use the vacant Horton Hospital in Middletown to house an osteopathic medicine school. The state said this will bolster medical professionals in the Mid-Hudson.
- $1 million to New York Medical College, in Valhalla, to build an iBio Incubator that will provide office and laboratory space for entrepreneurs and start up biotech companies and provide specialized workforce training for established biotechnology companies in the region.
- $1 million to the developers behind the preservation and development of the 1904 Glenwood Power Plant in Yonkers to develop the closed plant as a mixed-use development.
- $1.5 million for the Echo Bay mixed-use development on the Sound Shore waterfront in New Rochelle.
