Greene County Success Stories

The town of Greenville has a beautiful new pavilion at Vanderbilt Park, thanks to the efforts of GNH Lumber. 

Just a few years after purchasing her grandparents’ property in Leeds, Angela Worth and her husband, Steven, have turned Meadowbrook Farm Catskills into a major attraction. 

Two decades after purchasing 12 wooded acres in Catskill, Jim Malone has transformed the property into a picturesque recording studio retreat – marking the next phase in his 30-year career in the music industry. 

After 40 years in social work, Sharon Mahota decided it was time for a change. She decided what Coxsackie really needed was an ice cream parlor.

Django Houston and Heather Williams came back to the Catskills, where their love story began, and created a space where other love stories could begin.  

There’s a new business breathing life into the old Central Hudson building at 391 Main Street Catskill. But Made X Hudson is not your traditional boutique - it’s a maker space. 

Like so many other small rural communities, Cairo (pronounced Care-Oh) lost most of its Main Street businesses during the 1970s & 80s. Buildings fell into disrepair, and street level storefronts were converted into housing rentals. Consumer buying shifted away from local shops to retail destinations in malls and big-box stores over the next few decades, and things looked bleak for quite a while....

Derek James Smith and Rosannah von Moritz met back in grade school in Ghent. Some twenty years later, after varied careers across the country and around the world, they reconnected in the Hudson Valley, married, and relocated to Earlton in the town of Coxsackie. One month before the March 2020 lockdown, they signed their lease on the Catskill Main Street storefront that would become Constellation...

Last month three street festivals drew hundreds of revelers to main street businesses in towns along the Hudson River. Coxsackie’s Historic Reed Street was transformed into it’s annual Christmas by the River. The Village of Athens hosted it's Victorian Stroll, and the longest night of the year was celebrated at the Winter Solstice in Catskill. Each event proved to be a boon for local businesses...

Jennifer DeFrancesco is a true advocate for sustainable forestry in our local communities. Her father, Bill Fabian started B&B Forest Products in Greene County over 35 years ago. Their business employs 38 people and serves as a marketing conduit for small, independent loggers to get their harvested logs to buyers across the country and around the world.