NEWBURGH – The Orange County
Partnership, in its third decade, has traditionally concentrated on bringing
new businesses to corporate parks, but now it will also promote the county’s
three cities – Newburgh, Middletown and Port Jervis.
In Newburgh, the Partnership is working to develop a computer coding cluster.
Partnership Business Attraction Director William Fioravanti said such a business sector could be housed under one roof.
“There are so many of these coders and creators, many of them millennials, want to work in spaces where they can collaborate and it is also a more fun and enticing work environment,” Fioravanti said. “So, we intend to assist in marketing the space to coders and other creatives who are right now based in the Hudson Valley and the greater New York City area and we want to lure them to our small cities with a draw of cost effective real estate, hip neighborhoods and all the other amenities that our Orange County businesses enjoy.”
Along with a coders business sector, a coders school is being considered with it under discussion with SUNY Orange.
