SCHENECTADY COUNTY Chamber to present 3 firms with Renaissance Award
Three businesses will receive the Chamber of Schenectady County’s Renaissance Award at its 23rd annual business meeting in October. The chamber will present the award to Mohawk Honda for its new car dealership in Glenville, the Galesi Group for the Center City project in downtown Schenectady and Columbia Development/BBL for redevelopment of the former Capitol Plaza site in Rotterdam, which now contains the Recovery Sports Grill and a Berkshire Bank branch. The Renaissance Award is given to companies that have “contributed to the revitalization of Schenectady County by renovating or constructing an outstanding building.” The chamber’s business meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at Glen Sanders Mansion in Scotia. The chamber will also distribute other awards. It will give its “Rising Star” award to Paul Mitchell the School in Schenectady. The award recognizes a business in operation for two years or less that has “demonstrated commitment to the community and exhibits potential for long-term success.” The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, will receive the Community Partner Award. This award is given to an individual or organization that has shown “significant commitment to partnering with other public and/or private entities to further the development of Schenectady County.” The Tech Valley Innovation Award, which features a business demonstrating extraordinary technical advancement, will be given to Transfinder. Transfinder is a Schenectady-based software company that recently announced a $4.2 million investment in the community. The Entrepreneur of the Year Award, “reserved for a natural-born leader and charismatic go-getter” who represents a small business enterprise, will go to Lisa Durand, owner of La Moda Lisa on Saratoga Road in Glenville. The Executive of the Year Award, honoring leadership in a large organization, will go to Quintin Bullock, president of Schenectady County Community College. Fenimore Asset Management of Cobleskill has been named Enterprise of the Year, an award recognizing a business with 100 employees or fewer distinguishing itself through achievements in growth and management. The Corporation of the Year, which acknowledges a businesses with 100 employees or more, distinguishing itself through achievements in growth and management, goes to KeyBank. Honorees were selected by a committee consisting of fellow chamber members.
Only in Schitnectitty could the "executive of the year" go to a patronage employee hired via affirmative action who needed a $50,000 baby sitter to introduce him to people and make him new friends while he runs a taxpayer funded college.
And KEY BANK?????????????? CORPORATION OF THE YEAR? WHATA JOKE. Crappiest bank out there.
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Only in Schitnectitty could the "executive of the year" go to a patronage employee hired via affirmative action who needed a $50,000 baby sitter to introduce him to people and make him new friends while he runs a taxpayer funded college.
And KEY BANK?????????????? CORPORATION OF THE YEAR? WHATA JOKE. Crappiest bank out there.
They also had to travel all the way to Cobelskill to find a business with 100 or more employees. What a way to pat yourself on the back for stealing taxpayers millions for fiscal incompetence.
Maybe the next time they get all these people in the same room will be in the Attorney Generals Office when the hammer falls during the next audit.
We were just discussing in another thread how they give each other awards. How predictable they are. Someone barely literate will see this in that propaganda sheet known as the Gazette and take it as proof of a renaissance. "It said so in the paper." BTW, how is a car dealership leaving the city and opening up where another dealership was forced to close worthy of "renaissance" status?
The Honda store that fled Downtown because of constant theft and vandalism. Key Bank that screwed everyone by selling out to Mercury Morris, at a low ball price. The DSIC won an award for best recyclers of City tree grates-on the public payroll. ROTFLMAO!!
More like bobby prizes. This Chamber is the worst in NYS, A group of nonprofit idiots that have convinced themselves that a Downtown without any retail is a positive development. Only the Gazetto would print this "announcement". Surprised the Proctor's dupe running for rubber stamp didn't also pick up a Chamber bobby prize.
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The Honda store that fled Downtown because of constant theft and vandalism. Key Bank that screwed everyone by selling out to Mercury Morris, at a low ball price. The DSIC won an award for best recyclers of City tree grates-on the public payroll. ROTFLMAO!! 
