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Ulster Tomorrow | Ulster County Main Streets Program | Streamlining the Review Process
Ulster County Riverfront Community Plans | Workforce Development
Ulster Tomorrow: A Sustainable Economic Development Plan for Ulster County
Ulster Tomorrow is the collaborative effort of Ulster County, Ulster County Development Corporation (UCDC), and the Ulster County IDA. This comprehensive economic development planning effort provides strategic direction on the structure of the delivery of economic development services in the County, a focus on key industry sectors including agriculture and the creative economy, efforts to streamline the permit process, and investment in infrastructure to support growth.Ulster County Main Streets Program
The Ulster County Main Streets Program was initiated by UCPB in 2007 as a means of providing technical assistance to communities to ensure the vitality of our Main Streets as part of an overall economic development and quality of life strategy. In the past 2 years, the planning staff has worked with many stakeholders in communities throughout the county beginning the discussion on the importance of their Main Streets and to plan, fund, and implement improvements. Partnering with the Rural Ulster Preservation Company (RUPCO) on this approach, Ulster County has been awarded more New York State Main Street Grants than any other county in the state. These grants are being leveraged with other investments in our communities including transportation, housing, and infrastructure improvements. For more information, contact our office.Streamlining the Review Process
One of the priority strategies of Ulster Tomorrow involves streamlining the land use review process. Economic development requires a coordinated and streamlined approach to local permitting. Fairness and predictability for key industries is required to support job retention and new job creation. To facilitate this, we are working with local municipal boards to implement creative development techniques that protect quality of life while shortening the review time and making it more predicable. This will include working to make sure that existing buildings can be utilized with minimal reviews and the generic environmental impact statements are in place to make sites more shovel-ready. The County’s “Red Carpet Team,” in addition to providing peer assistance to expanding and relocating companies, now includes the UCPB as a gateway agency for assistance in obtaining needed land use development permits. For more information on the Red Carpet Team, visit the UCDC website.Ulster County Riverfront Community Plans
In 2009, Ulster County Planning will lead an initiative for its waterfront communities to develop principles, policies and actions to guide decisions that influence regional development, involve inter-municipal cooperation, and affect the quality of life. The effort will include identification of priority growth areas and the utilization of visualization techniques to give the public a much more concrete idea of how development will look and how it can be appropriately sited at a scale and density that is appropriate to the community. The Riverfront Study will provide a framework to address community development in a proactive and coordinated manner. For more information, contact our office.
The Office of Employment and Training (OET) is a federally funded, locally operated program offering cost assisted training and placement services to employers, dislocated workers and individuals who meet our adult low income priority guidelines. Its mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Ulster County by developing or upgrading the skills of job seekers to meet the needs of local employers. OET is overseen by the Workforce Development Board, composed of business leaders and representatives from education, organized labor, rehabilitation agencies, economic development agencies, community based organizations, and public employment agencies.
Economic Development Planning Links
In Ulster County | In New York State
Federal | Elsewhere | Additional Links
Ulster County Business Resource Center – a one-stop shop for business development, education, and training to the area.
Ulster County Development
Corporation - UCDC - UCDC is a private, not-for-profit organization
with a mission of creating and maintaining jobs through the attraction
of new business or the retention and expansion of existing business.
Ulster County Industrial Development
Agency
- UCIDA offers taxable and tax-exempt bonding for business expansion
and relocation. UCIDA can also offer real property tax abatements, mortgage
recording tax abatements and sales tax abatement during construction.
Ulster County Tourism - This website is the portal for all recreational and vacation resources for Ulster County.
Chamber of Commerce Ulster County - The Chamber of Commerce of Ulster County is a not-for-profit membership corporation that provides services and advocacy on behalf of its membership and the community at large to advance the economic health and vitality of Ulster County.
Southern Ulster Chamber
of Commerce - The Southern Ulster Chamber of Commerce mission is clear:
Create a strong voice for local business. Improve the local economy. Help
our neighbors network. Promote our area’s high quality of life. Serve
as a Tourist Information Center. Identify and create resources for commerce.
City
of Kingston Department of Economic Development - City of Kingston's
Economic Development Office with links to the Kingston-Ulster EZ, which
coordinates the City's efforts to retain private sector
jobs and tax
base and works to attract new investment into the City.
Kingston Midtown Business Association - Represents Kingston's Midtown area, which follows Broadway from Albany Avenue to the intersection of Broadway and McIntee Street. We actively promote the interests of our members' businesses and institutions.
Kingston Uptown Business Association (KUBA)- Kuba's mission statement is: To provide leadership, foster trade and commerce and interface actively with the local government in efforts to promote Uptown Kingston as a viable place to visit, work and live. KUBA (Kingston Uptown Business Association) is a wholly voluntary, not-for-profit organization.
Rondout Business Association - The Rondout Business Assocation serves the businesses located in the City of Kingston's downtown waterfront area.
New Paltz Regional Chamber - The New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce is organized for the purpose of advancing the business, industrial, agricultural and civic interests of New Paltz and the surrounding areas.
Rondout Valley Business Assocation - The mission of the Rondout Valley Business Association is to improve the economic health and general well-being of the greater Rondout Valley.
Rosendale Chamber of Commerce - The Chamber of Commerce is organized to promote business activity and economic development in every area of the Town of Rosendale.
Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce - The Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to improving the business climate in the Saugerties Area. Businesses serving the Saugerties community, regardless of location, are welcome to join.
Ellenville-Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce - The Ellenville - Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce promotes economic development, tourism, community betterment, legislative action, and programs to make the Town of Wawarsing a better place in which to live and make a living.
Woodstock Chamber of Commerce and Arts - The Woodstock Chamber of Commerce and Art's develops, encourages, promotes and protects the commercial, professional, financial, artistic and general business interests of the Town of Woodstock, New York.
New York State Empire State Development - Empire State Development (ESD) is New York State's lead economic development agency.
United States Small Business Administration – an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns.
CaRDI Community & Economic Development Toolbox - Provides accessible tools to local community and economic development (CED) practitioners. The Tool Box is a joint collaboration between Cornell University and Penn State University and is maintained by the Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) located at Cornell University
Center for Community and Economic Development – CCED University of Wisconsin Extension creates, applies and transfers multidisciplinary knowledge to help people understand community change and identify opportunities.
Corporation for Enterprise Development - Promotes asset-building and Economic opportunity strategies, primarily in low-income and distressed communities
Downtown Research & Development Center - Resources for downtown development and revitalization
Economic Development Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce
Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington - Provides information on what Washington local governments can do to foster and promote economic development, on strategies some local governments are using in their communities, and on available funding sources.
National Association of Development Organizations - Resource for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural America
National Main Street Center, National Trust for Historic Preservation - Commercial revitalization through historic preservation and Economic development
National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP) - Acts as a non-partisan forum for identifying, discussing, and acting on issues affecting rural America.
Additional
Economic Development Resource Links
UCDC
Resource Links – This link will
take you to the Ulster County Development Corporation’s “Resource
Links” page
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