Melissa Bounty named as the sixth Executive Director of Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation [press release]

We welcome 20 new business members for 2023, and bring you updates from their classrooms, design desks, and sewing tables.

PQ Production’s top 20 songs from 2022.

Reflecting on lessons + love from Painted Tulip of Waterbury.

Why super thin? Read more to learn what makes these saws efficient and cost-saving.

Congratulations to our top regional projects, who will be working in 2023 to address needs in childcare, housing, education, and economic development in Central Vermont.

What started as a modest woodworking shop in 1982 has now grown into a 10,000 sq. foot manufacturing plant built for viability and growth. When you first step foot in the newly established Maple Corner Woodworks plant in the Wilson Industrial Park, you’re greeted by the scent of the finest hardwoods, linseed oil, and a faint orange tone.

The story of Tyler McNaney’s Vermont-based businesses, Filabot and more recently Massive Dimension, began in a way that some of us may now see as familiar territory for clever technology innovations: a popular Kickstarter in 2011 introduced their filament long before 3D printers had made their way into labs and households worldwide.

Visiting Sharon Pike of Max Razy, a clothing design and manufacturing studio in Orange, Vermont.

CVEDC joins the Agency of Commerce and Community Development for a tour of regional businesses.

A multipurpose event space close by to the granite quarries in Barre, Millstone Hill quickly offers as much potential for magic as your favorite orphaned wizard children’s book. A charming pond-side garden looks out over a breathtaking view, and the property offers three separate buildings each with something unique.

A CEDS - or a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy - is a strategy-driven plan for regional economic development. A CEDS is the result of a regionally-led planning process designed to build capacity, support local initiatives, and develop economic resiliency.

The report received this week details information on our regional population’s education, working preferences, as well as the defining industry features of our region, the skills needed in our workforce, and the major drivers of the economy in Central Vermont.

One of the legacies of Vermont’s industrial heritage has been the challenge of reusing abandoned sites. Developers find it easier to build on open pastures or green fields instead of purchasing an existing “brownfields” site in a town or village. Developers have tended to avoid the liabilities attached to contaminated sites and the high costs of cleanup.

We celebrate Janina McCue’s ribbon cutting for Red Poppy Cakery, now in downtown Waterbury after three years in Burlington.

CVEDC partners with Generator and our regional Work-Based Learning Coordinators as well as area manufacturers to take a group of students through an exciting day at Barre’s Vermont Granite Museum.

Kerry Boyle of Integrative Acupuncture treats us to a tour of her brand new space in Montpelier, as well as our first try with acupuncture.

Kate Whelley McCabe chats with us during maple sugaring season about her unique home-use evaporators.