The St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 3:00 PM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.

The St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency is scheduled to meet Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 4:00 PM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.

The RVRDA is now accepting applications for its 2021 Community Development and Environmental Improvement Program.  Eligible applicants include communities and not-for-profit organizations in St. Lawrence County that are planning to undertake a project that will provide a clear and demonstrable economic, community or environmental benefit.  Applications are due by 3:00 PM on April 16, 2021.

The St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 3:00 PM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. is seeking funding in the amount of $800,000 for the acquisition of the North Lawrence Dairy facility in North Lawrence, NY.

Upstate Niagara is a food and beverage cooperative owned by 375 family-owned dairy farms in the Western New York State area that has made high quality dairy products since 1965.
They operate milk processing and distribution centers in Buffalo and Rochester, a cultured products plant in West Seneca, distribution Centers in Syracuse and Watertown, and a membership division in Batavia, NY. They market a wide variety of innovative products including milk, dip, ice cream mix, yogurt, and flavored milk-based beverages under the Upstate Farms, Wendt’s, Bison and Intense Brands. Yogurt is the leading growth segment in the cultured foods category of the dairy industry, and Upstate is seeking the North Lawrence facility to continue their growth. This project
will ultimately strengthen their position in the marketplace and benefit New York dairy farmers.
The funding is part of an $11,000,000 project to restart operations at the facility.

North American Forest Group, Inc., a related company to Massena-based wood pellet and timber harvesting
companies Seaway Timber Harvesting and Curran Renewable Energy, purchased a vacant 143,000-square-foot
former manufacturing building and approximately 28 acres of idle industrial land on the St. Lawrence River for the
purposes of starting a sawmill and wood products distribution operation. The facility is located outside the
Ogdensburg city limits in the town of Oswegatchie, along more than 1,500 feet of St. Lawrence River shoreline.
After five years of non-use, the facility needs significant upgrades, including new windows, roof repairs, interior
and exterior wall upgrades, the rehabilitation of the sprinkler system, updated lighting and renovations to the
manufacturing space itself to accommodate the sawmill equipment and the proposed processing flow of raw logs
into the building and finished product out of the building. The site itself requires upgrades as well, including paving
repairs and the paving of additional building access and truck entrance space on the east side of the
property. Some of the equipment to be purchased and installed at the facility includes log handling equipment
and forklifts necessary to handle and move both logs and finished wood products.

Pro Sport Trailer Manufacturing is a proposed trailer manufacturing start-up operation which will specialize in aluminum framed open deck and enclosed trailers. Pro Sport will design, build and distribute high quality aluminum trailers to dealers and distributors throughout the Northeast US with plans to expand to the Midwest and Canada.

The St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 5:00 PM at the Ernest J. LaBaff Industrial Building, 19 Commerce Lane, Canton.