AgriBusiness gets boost at Tech City
Luc Roel, left, of Farm to Table Co-Packers, and Congressman
Maurice Hinchey, tour the kitchen facilities at Tech City.
KINGSTON – The former IBM facility here built mainframe computers, but its workers were still fed 7,500 meals-a-day.
Now the facility, known as Tech City, has been recruiting tenants for many years to fill the space, whether it’s for a call center to order electrical parts or for the manufacture of solar energy components.
And bypassed by efforts to keep this facility viable was the kitchen and cafeteria, complete with stainless equipment.
But that, however, is about to change. That facility, which formerly kept IBMers productive at work, will become a center of activity for the Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation, and producers, primarily on the Route 209 corridor between Kingston and Ellenville, to get their products to market.
“I think is going to be major and positive element for the agricultural industry here,” said Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who obtained $350,000 in federal funding for the project. “I think it will allow the agricultural industry to expand and grow more products.”
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