Eleven projects in the North Country benefited from another round of funding through the Regional Economic Development Council initiative.

Local projects awarded funding include:

The City of Ogdensburg - $50,000. The city will use $50, 000 in NYS CDBG funds with $3,000 in local match to complete a Preliminary Engineering Report for E. David Street. The objective of this PER is to evaluate the design alternatives and document the technical analyses as required to complete the environmental documentation and complete street reconstruction, including separation of critical storm sewers.

City of Ogdensburg - $293,291. The city will conduct environmental site assessments on priority brownfield sites within the City’s State-designated Downtown Waterfront Core Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA). A large portion of the city's waterfront properties are contaminated brownfields from former industrial uses. The benefit of phase II environmental site assessments will be to identify the extent of contamination to help determine appropriate future uses for the sites.

Town of Massena - $191,070. The Town of Massena will use the grant funds to provide and expand essential branding and marketing support for major fishing tournaments, as part of community's continuing efforts to make Massena the fishing capital of the Northeast and a worldwide tourist destination.

Village of Massena - $500,000. The Village of Massena will assist in the renovation of the JJ Newberry Building in the Village's downtown.

GoCo Massena LLC - $163,680. GoCo Massena, will redevelop a blighted building in downtown Massena, into a mixed-use site that includes residential, retail and office amenities. The building will be upgraded in three phases with Phase I addressing the main structural and environmental issues while eliminating and stopping decay.

Cranberry Lake Mountaineers Snowmobile Club, Inc. - $233,240. The Cranberry Lake Mountaineers Snowmobile Club will acquire trail grooming equipment to maintain and improve snowmobile trails in St. Lawrence County.

Town of Canton - $25,000. The Town of Canton will complete architectural design and engineering plans for consolidating the operations of the town highway department and the village public works to improve efficiency and reduce long- term costs. The new co-located facility will relocate highway materials storage from a prime waterfront location in the Village of Canton.

Village of Potsdam - $127,500.The Village of Potsdam will undertake the renovation of ten c. 1934 lancet style windows located in the Potsdam Public Museum, part of the Civic Center complex located at 2 Park Street. Potsdam will return the windows to their original condition and install exterior storm windows. Installation of new exterior storm windows will reduce air loss, interior condensation and frosting during the winter months.

Last making similar funding were awarded to:

Atlantic Testing Laboratories Limited - $390,000. Atlantic Testing Laboratories will begin the phased renovations of their drilling and vehicle/equipment maintenance building located in downtown Canton, NY. They will reconfigure and secure the building envelope and make several exterior upgrades. The company also plans to purchase an additional drill rig as part of the project.

SUNY Canton - $1,100,750. SUNY Canton will redevelop second floor space at the Miller Campus to house the Canton Center for Research, Education, Access, and Training in Entrepreneurship: Canton CREATE. The Center will encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and retain talented graduates to start their businesses in the North Country. It will house the SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center; a makerspace; training/collaborative workspace for student and faculty entrepreneurs; and private offices for the incubation of selected ventures.

Clarkson University $1,250,000 - Clarkson University North Country Innovation Hot Spot. Clarkson has developed a scalable model with a track record of success through CAMP, the Shipley Center for Innovation, and the Reh Center for Entrepreneurship. By centralizing resources/services at Clarkson and decentralizing idea generation/capture across the region, the North Country can harness the existing intellectual capital to create the businesses we need in order to drive economic development.