The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council has submitted its 2016 Progress Report to Empire State Development.

The report - entitled Cool Places, Smart People - provides the Council's project recommendations for this year and also outlines its achievements since 2011.

The report recommends 27 priority projects for Round VI of the REDC competition.  The projects represent a total proposed state investment of $25 million.

Regional Council priorities in 2016 include:

  • Support the Downtown Revitalization Initiative Plan, and begin to identify priority projects in the defined community;
  • Implementing strategies through the project pipeline;
  • Training the workforce for today and tomorrow; and
  • Measuring the performance and progress of the strategic plan and CFA projects.

The 2016 Mohawk Valley REDC’s Progress Report can be found here.

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