[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During our annual meeting on May 12, 2017, we celebrated the accomplishments of the organization during 2016, and presented awards to very deserving Blair County recipients. Major highlights of 2016 included Completion and ribbon...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These mountains were our first frontier…challenging us to work harder…do great things…….. https://discoverblaircounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/your-first-frontier-blair-county-pa.mp4 Blair County, PA was...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let’s talk numbers. In 2016 the Altoona Blair County Development (ABCD) Corporation facilitated 41 business expansion projects. That represented more than $69 million in capital investment and $37 million in program funding. More...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On May 2-3, 2017, the Agriculture Committee of ABCD Corp. hosted its Second Annual Ag Career Days at the Kulp Farm in Martinsburg for all Blair County 7th Graders providing over 1,400 students the opportunity to learn about...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For way too long economic developers took “housing” (your home, domicile, residence) for granted. Our focus was mainly on big industrial sites and buildings, while somehow housing just took care of itself. In many towns like ours in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Adaptive reuse is the process of reusing an old site or building for a purpose other than that for which it was built or designed. Since the recession of 2008 estimates suggest that more than 70 percent of the United States...
