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The former Jamestown Brewing Company, located at the corner of Third and Washington streets received $830,000 in state Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding.
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The jury is still out on the success of Jamestown’s inclusion in a statewide initiative to assist communities with transforming housing, economic development, transportation and community projects in downtown urban centers.
The statewide program is known as the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, which was started in 2016 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the $100 million investment into 10 downtown communities – one municipality from each of the Regional Economic Development Councils. Jamestown won the competition in the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council during the first year of the program.
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Betty Little speaks in Saranac Lake about the road salt bill signed by Gov. Cuomo in December 2020.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) PLATTSBURGH Betty Little sees serving in the State Legislature for 25 years as an enormous privilege she never anticipated as a former stay-at-home mom. “I’m very grateful and (there’s) so many people I’ve met,” the retiring state senator told The Press-Republican during a recent interview. “So many hardworking people, really, working not just for themselves and to improve the lives of their family, but to improve their community. “I think that’s pretty much the way you can describe North Country people is, looking at the bigger good as we go forward.”