Business View Magazine | November 2020

300 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 as it was in a 100-year-old food processing facility located on Exit 29 of the NY State Thruway. In 2009, it constructed a $226-million food processing and packaging facility located in that very same corridor, now known as the Florida Business Park. The former property used by Beech-Nut has now been taken over by the County, which has leveraged over $6 million from the state to actively prepare the site for redevelopment. This project has been going on for about two years and the County has actively marketed the property, even creating a website to leverage on development opportunities.” He adds, “Alpin Haus is the largest RV retailer in the northeast and the County was able to convince it to remain in the community, which culminated in the construction of a state-of- the-art dealership and maintenance facility back in 2003. Hill & Markes is a family-owned company formerly situated in the City of Amsterdam. The company outgrew its former space and moved to construct an $11-million facility in 2011 at Florida Business Park.” As for business attraction, in 2003, Target invested $127 million to redevelop a previous vacant facility, which was a K-Mart distribution center under construction. K-Mart abandoned construction when it filed for bankruptcy the first time and Target leveraged the space – finishing construction of the distribution center and also adding around 400,000 square feet to the overall building. The