GOSHEN – Now that the Orange County Industrial Agency has a new board and leadership, County Executive Steven Neuhaus has recommended that it move its headquarters back to Goshen, the county seat.
Years ago, its offices were moved from Goshen to New Windsor adjacent to New York Stewart International Airport, but Neuhaus told the oversight committee of the county legislature on Monday that he believes it would better serve the county being back in Goshen.
“It is the Orange County IDA, not New Windsor, not Cornwall, not Chester, and I think that if you had it under one roof with the chamber of commerce, the (Orange County) Partnership, or at least in close proximity to the legislature and the county apparatus, it would be a better functioning body,” he said.
Neuhaus also said the IDA should “stop the bleeding” of a lease on an empty building in Highland Falls, where a new Accelerator program was to have been located, but was put on hold because of the pandemic.
