Announcing the Central Vermont Regional Project Priority List for 2025
12/5/2024
Montpelier, Vermont
Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation (CVEDC) announces today its Regional Project Prioritization List for 2025. This list ranks the region’s top ten priority projects as determined by a joint committee of members from both CVEDC and Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission (CVRPC).
Melissa Bounty, Executive Director of Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation, spearheaded the call for applications and development of this year’s list. “We were able to draw our most diverse set of applicants ever this year,” says Bounty. “I’m impressed by the full list of 22 applicants, ranging from a project to purchase and install hospital generators to larger infrastructure projects. Even those that did not make it to the top 10 have incredible merit and show the great range of ideas and action being taken in Central Vermont.”
The list follows:
1. Greenway College
2. Waitsfield Community Wastewater Project
3. Country Club Road Project
4. Isabel Circle Extension
5. Montpelier Downtown Building Flood Resilience Assessment Project
6. Woody Avenue Development Project
7. Jones Brothers Office Building Project
8. New Location for Dessureau Machines, Inc.
9. Central Vermont Medical Center Facility Upgrade
10. Plainfield Rises: Flood Recovery and Revitalization
The regional list is led by the Greenway College project, an initiative to launch a new engineering college on the former Vermont College of Fine Arts campus in Montpelier. Greenway plans to offer a radically affordable, hands-on, project-based program that deeply integrates academics and work, and that centers sustainability as core to engineering.
Greenway College, aerial photo. Image courtesy of Greenway Institute.
Mark Somerville, Founding President of Greenway College, states, “We are thrilled that Greenway’s project was chosen to lead the Central Vermont Regional Project Prioritization List for 2025. Greenway will have significant impacts in Central Vermont - from the creating jobs at the college, to new career and educational opportunities for young people, to fueling Vermont's entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
Greenway students at work. Image courtesy of Greenway Institute.
This list is aggregated annually by each Regional Development Corporation (RDC) and presented to the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, who rely on the list to prioritize support on a regional level.
Last year’s top-ranked project, Prospect Heights Housing, received the Federal Northern Border Regional Commission’s Catalyst award to develop housing in the City of Barre.
More details on the Regional Project Priority List for Central Vermont, as well as information on how to apply for future lists, can be found at CVEDC’s website, centralvermont.org
About CVEDC:
Organized in 1976 to provide impetus for the region’s economic development, CVEDC maintains a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of local business owners, lenders, and municipal officials. Our funding primarily comes from the State of Vermont, our municipalities, and dues-paying members of CVEDC. Visit us online at centralvermont.org
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