Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 6

51 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 TOWN OF MASSENA , NEW YORK interdependent. The geographic proximity that they share, along with their enduring desire to strengthen this brand of community relations, lay the foundation for local and regional projects that encourage economic diversification, job creation, alternative development, and recreational tourism. “We already know the collaborative prospects here are great,” says Fiacco. “Massena is also low cost of living, low cost of entry to get into those businesses, and the support for redevelopment from the Town, the Village of Massena, and the adjacent communities is huge, huge, huge.” And with the plenitude of union jobs that have been there for years, Massena has the skilled workforce to fill the many opportunities coming their way. “There are four colleges within a 25- mile radius,” Fiacco says. “As a business leader, I’m absolutely connected to those resources. And being a brewpub owner, I am leveraging different departments at Clarkson University in a variety of ways – from construction, business planning, and brewing beer – and know that the Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering departments at Clarkson University are now going to be working together to brew beers, which is also very unique.” “We’ve really come full circle,” sums up Carbone. “We’ve kept some of the manufacturing jobs and many other great fields of employment have flourished as we redevelop our industrial base, but now we also have fishing as a tourism piece, like the magical sulphur springs of the past. Along with the rivers that have cut this landscape and breathed life and adventure into our Town, I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to making Massena a better place.” An old sawmill is being converted into a brewery & restaurant on Water St. in Massena and slated to open in the fall of 2021.