Business View Magazine | November 2020

298 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 M ontgomery County, nestled in the heart of the Mohawk Valley, is home to ten towns, ten villages, one city (Amsterdam), and approximately 50,000 residents. Located at the foot of the Adirondacks in New York’s Capital District, this Leatherstocking region is known for its beautiful countryside, numerous parks, and outstanding recreation facilities. The Leatherstocking region is named for the unique leather leggings worn by frontiersmen and made famous by the work of author James Fenimore Cooper. Montgomery County is proud to incorporate the area’s rich history and tradition, as it plans for the future. The Montgomery County Business Development Center is an administrative arm of the County’s Department of Economic Development, alongside the Montgomery County Industrial Development Agency and the Montgomery County Capital Resource Corporation. In his 15-year tenure as Montgomery County Director of Economic Development, Ken Rose has been the Executive Director for both the Montgomery County Capital Resource Corporation and the Montgomery County Industrial Development Agency. “The County and the Business Development Center have worked hard to create an environment where businesses want to invest. We’re beating the odds and showing that Upstate New York’s economy is open for business,” Rose says. 2020 has seen quite a lot of change and the County is not immune to that change. For more than a decade the County has been executing a strategy to grow and diversify the local economy, attracting a number of name-brand companies to its borders. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Montgomery County Business Development Center has concentrated its efforts on assisting businesses with implementing the plethora of new regulations that have been passed by the state. This, however, does not mean the unty, New York GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS