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A s the deadline for applica- tions fast approaches – only 10 days from today – the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development is still hard at work, rallying local sup- port and making sure our two remaining applicants have all the support they need. “It has been a very busy six months,” Sullivan County Part- nership President and CEO Marc Baez said. “Our team has worked hard to insure that all of our casino projects have as much local support as possi- ble.” The Partnership teamed up with the Sullivan County Visi- tors Assn. and Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce to enlist local businesses and individuals to write letters of support for inclusion in the applications. A $29,000, 205-page study detailing the Strategic Geo- graphic/Economic Advantage Analysis was also commis- sioned by the Partnership on behalf of the Sullivan County Legislature, who funded the effort. “It is clear from the study that Sullivan County will circulate the most money the fastest and have the biggest impact on New York State’s economy [by siting casinos here],” Baez said. “The study only looked at six counties where casinos are cur- rently proposed – Sullivan, Orange, Ulster, Albany, Rensse- laer and Tioga. The last three counties are not competing with Sullivan County for a casi- no license. As Orange County’s casino players continue to push for- ward, the Acting Director for the New York State Gaming Commission, Rob Williams, wrote a letter to New York State Senator John Bonacic stating, “I firmly believe any conclusion that Orange County has a com- petitive advantage over Sullivan County is just plain wrong. “For those proposed locations that are more affluent, a project would have to provide a con- siderably greater overall direct and residual economic benefit to the host municipality and surrounding region than a smaller project sited in a disad- vantaged region,” Williams’ let- ter continued. Sullivan County’s economy is “among the most challenged in the state,” Williams continues. “A lower investment in Sullivan County could have a higher impact on economic need than a larger investment [in Orange].” The Study “There is a lot of information in the study which we all U .S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a $84,975 federal grant for The Center for Discovery in Harris. This invest- ment, allocated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic- es’ (HHS) Rural Health Net- work Development Planning Grant Pro- gram, will be used to expand telemedicine services to adults and children with autism and severe disabilities living in rural areas. In July 2011, Senator Gillibrand toured the center, meeting with program participants and discussing opportunities for the Cen- ter to grow. “I have seen firsthand the great work of The Center for Discovery,” said Senator Gillibrand, who visited the facilities in 2011. “They offer individuals with disabili- ties innovative educational, clinical, resi- dential and social and creative arts experi- ences designed to enrich their lives through personal accomplishment. With autism affecting more and more American children, The Center for Discovery pro- vides initiatives to help improve the lives of children and families living with autism.” “We see great potential for this project to not only reduce overall costs but more importantly to increase care coordination and better meet the health care needs of children and adults with significant devel- opmental disabilities and their families,” said Patrick H. Dollard, President and CEO of The Center for Discovery. Currently, individuals in need of services in rural areas have to make long, costly trips to care centers. The Center for Dis- covery is addressing the shortage of spe- cialty care, primary care and mental health professionals. They will use the funding to support development of the tele-medical home network program, including a cost analysis and needs assessment as well as education and training to fund research and fill the need for specialty care, primary care, and mental health professionals. President’s Message page 2 Roscoe Beer installs new brew system page 4 New small engine shop extolls Partnership’s role page 6 Catskills Farm knows meaning of ‘shop local’ page 8 DeFilippi’s Bakery expands to meet need page 10 Delaware Valley Job Corps improves National rank page 12 ND Pro Media wins top advertising award page 14 INSIDE: SUMMER 2014 Mohegan Sun CEO Mitchell Grossinger Etess, right, visited Sullivan County last week to discuss his company’s plans for a casino at the Concord. With him was Cliff Ehrlich, Mohegan Sun’s local consultant. Partnership Helps lead Casino Push in Albany Center for Discovery Gets Federal Grant continued on page 3

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Despite challenging conditions, a variety of businesses and agencies are determined to make Sullivan County a great place to live and work, and the latest Business Edge gives the details!

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A s the deadline for applica-tions fast approaches –

only 10 days from today – theSullivan County Partnership forEconomic Development is stillhard at work, rallying local sup-port and making sure our tworemaining applicants have allthe support they need.

“It has been a very busy six

months,” Sullivan County Part-nership President and CEOMarc Baez said. “Our team hasworked hard to insure that allof our casino projects have asmuch local support as possi-ble.”

The Partnership teamed upwith the Sullivan County Visi-tors Assn. and Sullivan County

Chamber of Commerce to enlistlocal businesses and individualsto write letters of support forinclusion in the applications.

A $29,000, 205-page studydetailing the Strategic Geo-graphic/Economic AdvantageAnalysis was also commis-sioned by the Partnership onbehalf of the Sullivan CountyLegislature, who funded theeffort.

“It is clear from the study thatSullivan County will circulatethe most money the fastest andhave the biggest impact onNew York State’s economy [bysiting casinos here],” Baez said.“The study only looked at sixcounties where casinos are cur-rently proposed – Sullivan,Orange, Ulster, Albany, Rensse-laer and Tioga. The last threecounties are not competingwith Sullivan County for a casi-no license.

As Orange County’s casinoplayers continue to push for-ward, the Acting Director forthe New York State Gaming

Commission, Rob Williams,wrote a letter to New York StateSenator John Bonacic stating, “Ifirmly believe any conclusionthat Orange County has a com-petitive advantage over SullivanCounty is just plain wrong.

“For those proposed locationsthat are more affluent, a projectwould have to provide a con-siderably greater overall directand residual economic benefitto the host municipality andsurrounding region than asmaller project sited in a disad-vantaged region,” Williams’ let-ter continued.

Sullivan County’s economy is“among the most challenged inthe state,” Williams continues.“A lower investment in SullivanCounty could have a higherimpact on economic need thana larger investment [inOrange].”

The Study“There is a lot of information

in the study which we all

U.S. Senator KirstenGillibrand

announced a $84,975federal grant for TheCenter for Discoveryin Harris. This invest-ment, allocated by the

U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Servic-

es’ (HHS) Rural Health Net-work Development Planning Grant Pro-gram, will be used to expand telemedicineservices to adults and children with autismand severe disabilities living in rural areas.In July 2011, Senator Gillibrand toured the

center, meeting with program participantsand discussing opportunities for the Cen-ter to grow.

“I have seen firsthand the great work ofThe Center for Discovery,” said SenatorGillibrand, who visited the facilities in2011. “They offer individuals with disabili-ties innovative educational, clinical, resi-dential and social and creative arts experi-ences designed to enrich their livesthrough personal accomplishment. Withautism affecting more and more American

children, The Center for Discovery pro-vides initiatives to help improve the livesof children and families living withautism.”

“We see great potential for this project tonot only reduce overall costs but moreimportantly to increase care coordinationand better meet the health care needs ofchildren and adults with significant devel-opmental disabilities and their families,”said Patrick H. Dollard, President and CEOof The Center for Discovery.

Currently, individuals in need of servicesin rural areas have to make long, costlytrips to care centers. The Center for Dis-covery is addressing the shortage of spe-cialty care, primary care and mental healthprofessionals. They will use the funding tosupport development of the tele-medicalhome network program, including a costanalysis and needs assessment as well aseducation and training to fund researchand fill the need for specialty care, primarycare, and mental health professionals.

President’s Messagepage 2

Roscoe Beer installsnew brew systempage 4

New small engine shopextolls Partnership’s rolepage 6

Catskills Farm knowsmeaning of ‘shop local’page 8

DeFilippi’s Bakeryexpands to meet needpage 10

Delaware Valley Job Corpsimproves National rankpage 12

ND Pro Media winstop advertising awardpage 14

INSIDE:

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Mohegan Sun CEO Mitchell Grossinger Etess, right, visited SullivanCounty last week to discuss his company’s plans for a casino at theConcord. With him was Cliff Ehrlich, Mohegan Sun’s local consultant.

Partnership Helps lead Casino Push in Albany

Center for Discovery Gets Federal Grantcontinued on page 3

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To the People:As we enter the final weeks before casino

applications are due on June 30, it is impor-tant to take stock of where we were oneyear ago and the road the process has takenus down. A year ago the broad discussion ofthe possibility of casinos was not a primarytopic at the Sunday breakfast table. Whilethere had been stories of Senator JohnBonacic pushing to get legislation back onthe radar behind the scenes, and all of thepolitics that goes with that, externally mostpeople viewed it as just another reach to putforward a dying issue with little chance ofsucceeding. Our friends in Orange Countyquibbled “there you go with that casino talkagain…..it would be nice if you got itbut….”. Now the irony is forbidding, as the‘horse trading’ there has been frantic. Wewere asked to support proposition 1 underthe pretext that this legislation was geared to

revitalize “Upstate New York”. Fair enough. We knew where casinos

belonged; we have been dealing withevery benchmark promulgated during thefight to pass the legislation last fall for thebetter part of two decades. So we ralliedonce again, businesses, economic devel-opment groups, politicians and residentsalike to push and help get the legislationpassed. But for our neighbors in UlsterCounty, the New York State Small BusinessCouncil staffers, Assemblyman Gary Pretlowand Senator John Bonacic, I am not sure Irecall anyone else following us across thestate making the public case for the passageof this proposition. At the time this couldhave been viewed as expected since wewere one of the few that stood to benefit themost.

Passage complete; the Governor comes toour small county for his victory stop! “I

believe this will funda-mentally change the tra-jectory of the Catskills,” hesaid. The energy at BethelWoods that day wasextraordinary. “Developersgear up. We scramble forsupport with the under-standing that it is criticalto the process. We haveextraordinary projects thatfor the most part have

completed all of the necessary approvals tobe ready for the fall; after all a decisionwould be made around that time. Then weare presented news that developers areflooding into Orange County. Really? Arethey Upstate? To make it even worse theclarifications of the siting board are seeming-ly making it easy for those newcomers witha much lower than expected minimuminvestment requirement and a window tocatch up to our developers relative to theenvironmental approvals process. We are stillstrong as our projects are ready now and

bring in revenues much sooner, right? Not sofast. Today financing becomes the next hur-dle as investors become uneasy about proj-ects closer to New York City. Two drop out.The Capital District loses projects as well.

But it is not over yet. The decision will bemade this fall. We have extraordinary proj-ects that we will continue to support and wecontinue to work hard to ensure our projectssucceed. The State has said there will betime for public comment during the process.While we do not know exactly when thatwill occur, when it is announced, we arecounting on all to come out and voice yoursupport for our projects. Sullivan County isthe best place for resort destination casinoprojects.

Sincerely,

Marc BaezPresident, Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

CEO/President Marc Baez

Far from Over,…Support Needed through to the end

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knew,” Baez acknowledges, speaking ofthe county’s high unemployment rate, siz-able tax burden, low salary levels and bot-tom-in-the-state health rankings.

But he points to how those “disadvan-tages in this case are the advantages” – inthat the struggles of Sullivan County makeit a prime candidate for the kind of eco-nomic development casinos could bring.

“Obviously,” says Baez, “we need theinvestment in Sullivan County more thanany other county.”

Researchers from Capacity Business Con-sulting, which performed the analysis, notethat this “is not a casino feasibility studyand assumes the feasibility ... of the casinoin each county is equal.”

Rather, “the purpose ... is to determinewhich county (not which casino) wouldbenefit the state the most as a location forone or more casinos.”

The top two measurements are “marginalpropensity to consume” and “velocity ofmoney.”

“Simply put, the county whose people aremost likely to get the biggest bump inincome from a casino and spend it thefastest is the county that will most likely ful-fill the intent of the legislation and benefitthe state the most,” say analysts.

The study determines that place is Sulli-

van County, where the average wage is$31,483 a year, the lowest of the six studiedcounties.

If a casino arrives locally and employssomeone making that average wage,researchers say his/her income could climbto a point ($36,237) where he/she couldspend another $903 in the local economy –aka the “marginal propensity to consume.”

Only Ulster County was close to Sullivan,with a casino job there possibly giving theaverage worker the ability to spend anadditional $708 a year.

The average Orange County workermight see a $112 increase in spending abili-ty, say researchers, while Albany, Rensse-laer and Tioga County casino workerswould theoretically make less than theircounties’ average salaries.

“What it means is the impact of those dol-lars will be greater here than in otherareas,” explains Baez.

“The bigger the propensity to consumeand the higher the velocity of money,” sayresearchers, “the bigger the positive eco-nomic impact.”

They link that to potentially higher gradu-ation rates, better health and less crime – aplus not just for Sullivan but for New York.

“Any improvements in these areas has thepotential to lower the state’s costs for things

like school aid, Medicaid and State Police,”they write.

Baez said the analysis will be used by thePartnership and possibly by the Legislatureand local casino developers to press thecase that Sullivan County should be thestate Gaming Commission’s choice for upto two casino licenses.

Ranking Sullivan’s strengthsThe study categorizes its findings into three

rankings: strong arguments, medium arguments,and weak arguments for siting a casino in SullivanCounty.

Under “Strong”:• A current and longtime unemployment rate

and a homeowner vacancy rate that are higherthan the five other studied counties

• A labor force participation rate, averagesalary, educational achievement level, health rank-ing and residential median home sale price thatare lower than the five other counties

• A property tax rate (as a percentage ofincome) that’s higher than four of the five othercounties (only Orange is higher)

• Statewide, the highest percentage of “yes”votes on the state’s casino referendum in Novem-ber, plus the second-lowest percentage of blank

votes• Existing resort sites ready to be adapted for

reuse as casinosUnder “Medium”:• Of the six studied counties, Sullivan had the

second largest percentage decline in labor forcebetween 1990 and 2014

• The lowest per-capita income, currently and inthe past 50 years, of the six counties

• The third-highest property tax (as a percent-age of home value) and property crime rate

• The least dense traffic of the six counties• The second-closest of the six to the major NYC

market (Orange being the closest)(Notably, on this point researchers wrote that

“the state would benefit the most from a casinoin Orange County, as it is closest to the threebiggest competitors and could potentially pullmoney from New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsyl-vania into New York.”)

Under “Weak”:• Sullivan County is not alone nor unique, when

compared to the other five counties, in experienc-ing natural disasters that hurt the economy

• The distance between existing casinos andproposed counties was deemed irrelevant, as thestudy assumes that each of the six counties will

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Partnership Push in Albany CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

Roscoe NY Beer Co.:

New brew system means more beer, new stylesMore beer will be flowing out

of Roscoe this spring. Inaddition to its flagship beer, TroutTown™ American Amber Ale,Roscoe NY Beer Co. will begin dis-tributing new styles of beer through-out the area.

The installation of the new brew-ing system in early May has allowedfor production of new brews on alarger scale. Kegs of the new beerwill be sold to local bars and restau-rants, and customers will be able topurchase growler fills at the compa-ny’s Rockland Road retail store.Michigan-based Psycho Brew, LLC ismanufacturing and installing the newfive-barrel system.

“We’ve had a great response fromcustomers to our small batch pilotbrews,” said Josh Hughes, RoscoeNY Beer Co.’s onsite brewmaster.“We wanted to meet that demandand continue offering new andunique styles to customers and local

establishments on a larger scale.”The new system will make it possi-

ble for the company to produce awider variety of beer styles, and inlarger quantities, than their currentsystem allows. No official productionschedule has been released, butHughes suggested that a blackberryHefeweizen could be in the works,and that their recently sold-out IndiaRed Ale would likely make a come-back.

According to Hughes, the decisionto go with a Psycho Brew systemwas an easy one. “Within five min-utes of our first phone call, I knewthey were a perfect fit for us,” said

Contributed Photo

Roscoe NY Beer Co. recently installeda Psycho Brew system consisting offive barrels. It will enable the companyto brew more and different types ofbeer.

4E BUSINESS EDGE SULLIVAN COUNTY DEMOCRAT JUNE, 2014

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Hughes. “Everything is hand made inthe U.S. to the highest quality, andthe owners and workers are phenom-enal individuals to work with.”

Since 2010, Psycho Brew has grownfrom a small start-up company to aninternational equipment supplier. Itspecializes in brew systems, tanks, andkettles for home-brewers and large-scale beer producers alike, and allequipment is hand-built in Michiganusing American stainless steel.

The system boats new glycol-chilledfermenters to help control the temper-ature of beer, which will enableRoscoe NY Beer Co. to brew a broad-er range of styles for distribution tolocal establishments. While they willnot be bottling on-site, growlers of thenew styles will be available.

Roscoe NY Beer Co.’s BrewMagicSystem, purchased earlier this year,will still be on-hand and used to notonly test new recipes, but also for useat Home Brew Club meetings.Members of the Home Brew Club willbe able to bring, brew, and test theirrecipes on the old system for poten-tial cultivation into the Trout Town™brand of beers.

The new brewing system opens upgreater opportunities for the HomeBrew Club members to experimentwith recipe ideas and styles on theold system.

RBC’s inaugural brew, Trout Town™American Amber Ale, pours a deepamber color, with a clean nose, bal-anced hops and malt, and ends with alight citrus finish. As a nod to tradi-tion, this style of beer was typicallybrewed around New York State dur-ing the early 1900s. Roscoe Beer Co.’sinitiative is to remain true to Americanbeer-making traditions which haveevolved from their early Europeanancestors.

With an aggressive plan in place,Trout Town™ American Amber Ale’sdistribution continues to grow from itshometown-only point of sale. Since itsdebut on the market in late April, thebrew is now widely distributedthroughout Sullivan County, as well asthe region.

To get the most up-to-date informa-tion about Roscoe Beer Company,visit www.RoscoeBeerCompany.com, and follow on Facebook,Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Run by local businesswomanMeg Bartow under the name

Roger’s Small Engine for nearly 40years, the 185 Lake Street, Liberty,small engine repair shop has newowners and a fresh new name.

In mid-April, Liberty native DougAbplanalp took over the operationsat the old Roger’s Small Engine, dub-bing the business Apple’s SmallEngine Repair.

As Abplanalp tells it, “I walked inone day to buy a lawn mower andMeg says to me, ‘You really need tobuy this place because I’m going tobe closing the doors by January 1.’ ”

Along with partner Erin Edwards,Abplanalp has made many customerfriendly upgrades to the longstand-ing business, including new flooring,showroom lighting and more.

But Abplanalp has also kept somethings at Apple’s the same – namelyhis workforce, much of which is car-ried over from the Roger’s SmallEngine days.

One of the carryovers is parts manKevin Hart, who as Edwards put it“was part of the deal.”

“He’s [Hart] so important here thathe gets no vacation time or days off,”

Edwards jokingly added.Abplanalp, though, was sure to

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JC the pooch takes a nap as headmechanic Jamie Weizenecker works on anengine.

Doug Abplanalp’s business partner Erin Edwards helps customers at one of the newlyrenovated showrooms off of the business’s main entrance.

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called ProgressivePhysical Therapy onRoute 52 above theMedicine Shoppe phar-macy): “The Partnershipwas huge as far as usclosing the deal on thisplace,” affirmedAbplanalp. “Marc Baezwas so hands-on with usand took us throughevery step of the process,and he was even therewith us when we wentbefore the IndustrialDevelopment Agency(IDA). We were able toget two loans, onethrough the bank andthe other through thePartnership.”

“The Sullivan CountyPartnership forEconomic Development is justgreat,” concluded Abplanalp. “Theyeven have incentives like hiring highschool students for lower interest

rates and other incentives to getlocal businesses rolling. I think thePartnership is an invaluableresource... at least it has been for us.”

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investment by many banks, but luckilyCatskill Farms was a customer of theone bank that didn’t panic and shutthem down.

“I needed to continue to sell homes,”Petersheim explained, stating that JeffBank could have pulled the rug outfrom under his business if it wanted to.

“It was a real sort of tango, wherethey didn’t pull the money as long as Ikept selling homes. And I was able tokeep selling homes because they didn’tpull the money,” Petersheim said.

And Petersheim did keep on selling.During the housing crisis, Petersheimdescribed Catskill Farms as a little redengine building two homes here andthere while others wasted time at a

planning board. Now Catskill Farms’ reach extends

into three different counties. Petersheimhas lines of credit in Sullivan, Ulster andDutchess County and his homes are stillselling.

The relationship with Jeff Bank hasbenefitted both companies since 2008and both are enjoying continued growthand success.

“One of the interesting things aboutJeff Bank and Catskill Farms is that theypush us, and we push them,”Petersheim said, “If we weren’t inDutchess, they wouldn’t be inDutchess.”

“We’ve lent in Ulster for a bit butDutchess is new for us,” Kinneexplained, “We primarily serve Sullivan,Orange, Ulster, Delaware, Wayne andPike Counties. But we have followedstrong customers.”

Without Jeff Bank and its small townapproach and value in communitymembers, Catskill Farms might not bein existence today.

“My relationship with Jeff Bank is atestament to a commitment to fairness,big picture thinking, and betting on thetalents and energy of people,”Petersheim said.

And it’s a relationship that seems toonly have one thing it can continue todo: grow.

MARCH, 2014 SULLIVAN COUNTY DEMOCRAT BUSINESS EDGE 9E

The driveway is marked by a littlered barn-shaped mailbox on 42

Proctor Road in Eldred but there is noth-ing little about the business that residesthere.

It’s a short walk to the entrance to themain office for Catskill Farms RealEstate. As you enter the office you passa piano, a front desk, a wall filled withpictures of houses before you reach thedoor to owner Charles Petersheim’soffice. The back wall of his office ismade of shelves occupied by at leastfifty different typewriters, and his deskproudly displays photos of his son. Smalltown business, small town man, one bigsuccess story.

Born and raised in Lancaster, PA,Petersheim left at 18 to attend college atthe University of Pittsburgh and, aftergraduating, moved to New York City.Shortly after 9/11, and four years living

in NYC Petersheim moved up to SullivanCounty and into “a one-room shack” inFosterdale.

“There’s really no rhyme or reason; Ithink, like many people, although that’skind of looking back, it was an afford-able place to run away to.” Petersheimexplained. “I was kind of familiar with

an area like this because I grew up in anarea like this in Pennsylvania. So it was-n’t unfamiliar.”

The idea for Catskill Farms came thefollowing year while Petersheim wasworking for a realtor. Instead of sellingnew modern looking homes or old, vin-tage homes that need work, Petersheimdecided to build and sell a combinationof both.

“When I moved up here the most fre-quent thing sold, most frequent housesold to people looking to buy here was‘this old house,’” Petersheim explained,and noted that he believed most of thebuyers were not cut out to be buying anold house they needed to fix up.

“So very quickly the idea occurred tome to add to the local real estate offer-ings,” Petersheim said. “This new vintagehome as opposed to that crappy old vin-tage home; give people something thatworks. Most people who came up herefound themselves needing to renovate orrehab, which wasn’t necessarily whatthey were thinking about doing whenthey started dreaming about upstate.They got caught up in a dream, gotcaught up in a sales pitch that wasn’tnecessarily true.”

Petersheim founded Catskill Farmswith the goal of facilitating what he sawas the main reason why people movedup to Sullivan County either full-time ora second homeowners.

“Which was peace and quiet and relax-ation,” Petersheim explained, “Whichdoesn’t necessarily equal fixer upper.”

Catskill Farms wasonly the beginning.Petersheim alsofounded two othercompanies:BluestoneConstruction andEcoTech Spray FoamInsulation.

BluestoneConstruction is theconstruction arm ofthe Catskill FarmsMarketing Body thatis technically hiredby Catskill Farmsand anyone elsewho needs to hireout a constructionfirm. EcoTech SprayFoam was foundedin an initial attemptto make the homessold by Catskill

Farms more efficient. Petersheimexplained that the insulation was the“intelligent choice” and enabled thecompany to bring down the cost ofownership.

Better insulation equaled a betterhome, and Petersheim is proud to say,“My homes haven’t used anything butthe most premium insulation since 2008,which is very rare. It’s typically not astandard building product, but we’vebeen installing it standardly since 2009since we’re committed to smart construc-tion.”

Catskill Farms and its sister companiesseemed to be doing well and its successonly seemed to have one way to go: up.

Then in 2008, the Housing BubbleCrisis followed by what many called“The Great Recession” hit and hit hard.Real estate and non-real estate business-es alike were crashing and going bank-rupt as customers disappeared andbanks stopped giving out loans.

“Some banks took the industry viewand limited expenses,” George Kinne,Vice President of Jeff Bank explained.Not Jeff Bank, “As long as a customermet our needs we recognized there con-tinued to be need for our productthroughout the that time period.”

The industry view other banks tookwas to call the loan and take it awayfrom their customers and inform thosecustomers they had to pay the loanback.

“When they needed their bank most,they weren’t there,” Kinne said.

Jeff Bank, onthe other hand,was. The com-munity bank fol-lows a businessapproach thatcould be consid-ered old-fash-ioned. Theymake theirmoney off theinterest on a loaninstead of sellingthat loan or mort-gage to anothercompany. If theloan fails it’s JeffBank that suffers.

Petersheim’ssmall town real-estate companywas in a businessthat was consid-ered a bad

By Margaret Bruetsch

How do you feel theSullivan County Partnershiphas helped promote business in Sullivan County

The relationship behind Petersheim’s success

What do you feel is theimportance of using localbusinesses

As a company that spends$400,000 a month on local busi-nesses, every month, it's gratifying tosee that money work its magic as itworks its way through the local econ-omy - to the excavator, who spends iton new machines, to the machinesalesman who hires another employ-ee, to the employee who is able toimprove the future of his familythrough local improvement.

For someone like myself who is astudent of economics and the impactof small business, it's thrilling towatch our investment ripple outthrough the lives of dozens of localfamilies.

As you have grown yourbusiness, what otherSullivan County businesses or programshave been vital in your success

Jeff Bank loan program, bothlocal newspapers, the diligenceand expertise of our town boards,building departments and planningboards, and watching people likeGib McKean, the Freda's, DavidKnudsen and Steve Dubrovskycreatively navigate the many localchallenges of succeeding in a dis-tressed community.

Every time I see a success likethe Dancing Cat, or the Heron, orthe River Gallery or theHomestead School, or NestProperty Services, I'm validatedand motivated by these nichebusinesses that are doing it right.

Builder enjoys partnership with Jeff Bank

What do you feel is the single biggest thing you have doneto make your business succeed

Get myself in so deep I had no choice but to continue to flail forward.Desiring to live up to my word and not let my bankers and employees down.

Honestly, like most good ideas, my idea for Catskill Farms was pretty simpleand straight-forward - build good looking well designed fully functioning homes.And then I didn't stop working until I achieved what I had originally hoped forfor the business - it took a lot of years and a lot of hard lessons and a lot of riskbut I got it done.

Sullivan County has been a tremendously welcoming place to me and nowwe give back as frequently as possible as sizeable patrons of NACL, EldredLibrary, Sullivan County Homeless, WJFF, local fire halls, and a host of smallergroups.

Margaret Bruetsch/Democrat

Charles Petersheim, left, with Jeff Bank Vice President George Kinne. Petersheim creditedthe bank with continuing to extend his company credit despite the economic downturn.

Contributed photos

Petersheim’s modern interpretation of the classic “farm house” makes for a very popular understated and unfussy elegance. Along with Jeff Bank’s support, the success of Catskill Farms, is then, no surprise.

Margaret Bruetsch/Democrat

Charles Petersheim looks over house plansat his Catskill Farms office in Eldred.

The Partnership is a vital facilitatorbetween existing businesses and newventures thinking about SullivanCounty.

The Partnership excels at highlight-ing thriving Sullivan County business-es which may be unknown to most butinspiring to those contemplating astartup venture or expansion.

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investment by many banks, but luckilyCatskill Farms was a customer of theone bank that didn’t panic and shutthem down.

“I needed to continue to sell homes,”Petersheim explained, stating that JeffBank could have pulled the rug outfrom under his business if it wanted to.

“It was a real sort of tango, wherethey didn’t pull the money as long as Ikept selling homes. And I was able tokeep selling homes because they didn’tpull the money,” Petersheim said.

And Petersheim did keep on selling.During the housing crisis, Petersheimdescribed Catskill Farms as a little redengine building two homes here andthere while others wasted time at a

planning board. Now Catskill Farms’ reach extends

into three different counties. Petersheimhas lines of credit in Sullivan, Ulster andDutchess County and his homes are stillselling.

The relationship with Jeff Bank hasbenefitted both companies since 2008and both are enjoying continued growthand success.

“One of the interesting things aboutJeff Bank and Catskill Farms is that theypush us, and we push them,”Petersheim said, “If we weren’t inDutchess, they wouldn’t be inDutchess.”

“We’ve lent in Ulster for a bit butDutchess is new for us,” Kinneexplained, “We primarily serve Sullivan,Orange, Ulster, Delaware, Wayne andPike Counties. But we have followedstrong customers.”

Without Jeff Bank and its small townapproach and value in communitymembers, Catskill Farms might not bein existence today.

“My relationship with Jeff Bank is atestament to a commitment to fairness,big picture thinking, and betting on thetalents and energy of people,”Petersheim said.

And it’s a relationship that seems toonly have one thing it can continue todo: grow.

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The driveway is marked by a littlered barn-shaped mailbox on 42

Proctor Road in Eldred but there is noth-ing little about the business that residesthere.

It’s a short walk to the entrance to themain office for Catskill Farms RealEstate. As you enter the office you passa piano, a front desk, a wall filled withpictures of houses before you reach thedoor to owner Charles Petersheim’soffice. The back wall of his office ismade of shelves occupied by at leastfifty different typewriters, and his deskproudly displays photos of his son. Smalltown business, small town man, one bigsuccess story.

Born and raised in Lancaster, PA,Petersheim left at 18 to attend college atthe University of Pittsburgh and, aftergraduating, moved to New York City.Shortly after 9/11, and four years living

in NYC Petersheim moved up to SullivanCounty and into “a one-room shack” inFosterdale.

“There’s really no rhyme or reason; Ithink, like many people, although that’skind of looking back, it was an afford-able place to run away to.” Petersheimexplained. “I was kind of familiar with

an area like this because I grew up in anarea like this in Pennsylvania. So it was-n’t unfamiliar.”

The idea for Catskill Farms came thefollowing year while Petersheim wasworking for a realtor. Instead of sellingnew modern looking homes or old, vin-tage homes that need work, Petersheimdecided to build and sell a combinationof both.

“When I moved up here the most fre-quent thing sold, most frequent housesold to people looking to buy here was‘this old house,’” Petersheim explained,and noted that he believed most of thebuyers were not cut out to be buying anold house they needed to fix up.

“So very quickly the idea occurred tome to add to the local real estate offer-ings,” Petersheim said. “This new vintagehome as opposed to that crappy old vin-tage home; give people something thatworks. Most people who came up herefound themselves needing to renovate orrehab, which wasn’t necessarily whatthey were thinking about doing whenthey started dreaming about upstate.They got caught up in a dream, gotcaught up in a sales pitch that wasn’tnecessarily true.”

Petersheim founded Catskill Farmswith the goal of facilitating what he sawas the main reason why people movedup to Sullivan County either full-time ora second homeowners.

“Which was peace and quiet and relax-ation,” Petersheim explained, “Whichdoesn’t necessarily equal fixer upper.”

Catskill Farms wasonly the beginning.Petersheim alsofounded two othercompanies:BluestoneConstruction andEcoTech Spray FoamInsulation.

BluestoneConstruction is theconstruction arm ofthe Catskill FarmsMarketing Body thatis technically hiredby Catskill Farmsand anyone elsewho needs to hireout a constructionfirm. EcoTech SprayFoam was foundedin an initial attemptto make the homessold by Catskill

Farms more efficient. Petersheimexplained that the insulation was the“intelligent choice” and enabled thecompany to bring down the cost ofownership.

Better insulation equaled a betterhome, and Petersheim is proud to say,“My homes haven’t used anything butthe most premium insulation since 2008,which is very rare. It’s typically not astandard building product, but we’vebeen installing it standardly since 2009since we’re committed to smart construc-tion.”

Catskill Farms and its sister companiesseemed to be doing well and its successonly seemed to have one way to go: up.

Then in 2008, the Housing BubbleCrisis followed by what many called“The Great Recession” hit and hit hard.Real estate and non-real estate business-es alike were crashing and going bank-rupt as customers disappeared andbanks stopped giving out loans.

“Some banks took the industry viewand limited expenses,” George Kinne,Vice President of Jeff Bank explained.Not Jeff Bank, “As long as a customermet our needs we recognized there con-tinued to be need for our productthroughout the that time period.”

The industry view other banks tookwas to call the loan and take it awayfrom their customers and inform thosecustomers they had to pay the loanback.

“When they needed their bank most,they weren’t there,” Kinne said.

Jeff Bank, onthe other hand,was. The com-munity bank fol-lows a businessapproach thatcould be consid-ered old-fash-ioned. Theymake theirmoney off theinterest on a loaninstead of sellingthat loan or mort-gage to anothercompany. If theloan fails it’s JeffBank that suffers.

Petersheim’ssmall town real-estate companywas in a businessthat was consid-ered a bad

By Margaret Bruetsch

How do you feel theSullivan County Partnershiphas helped promote business in Sullivan County

The relationship behind Petersheim’s success

What do you feel is theimportance of using localbusinesses

As a company that spends$400,000 a month on local busi-nesses, every month, it's gratifying tosee that money work its magic as itworks its way through the local econ-omy - to the excavator, who spends iton new machines, to the machinesalesman who hires another employ-ee, to the employee who is able toimprove the future of his familythrough local improvement.

For someone like myself who is astudent of economics and the impactof small business, it's thrilling towatch our investment ripple outthrough the lives of dozens of localfamilies.

As you have grown yourbusiness, what otherSullivan County businesses or programshave been vital in your success

Jeff Bank loan program, bothlocal newspapers, the diligenceand expertise of our town boards,building departments and planningboards, and watching people likeGib McKean, the Freda's, DavidKnudsen and Steve Dubrovskycreatively navigate the many localchallenges of succeeding in a dis-tressed community.

Every time I see a success likethe Dancing Cat, or the Heron, orthe River Gallery or theHomestead School, or NestProperty Services, I'm validatedand motivated by these nichebusinesses that are doing it right.

Builder enjoys partnership with Jeff Bank

What do you feel is the single biggest thing you have doneto make your business succeed

Get myself in so deep I had no choice but to continue to flail forward.Desiring to live up to my word and not let my bankers and employees down.

Honestly, like most good ideas, my idea for Catskill Farms was pretty simpleand straight-forward - build good looking well designed fully functioning homes.And then I didn't stop working until I achieved what I had originally hoped forfor the business - it took a lot of years and a lot of hard lessons and a lot of riskbut I got it done.

Sullivan County has been a tremendously welcoming place to me and nowwe give back as frequently as possible as sizeable patrons of NACL, EldredLibrary, Sullivan County Homeless, WJFF, local fire halls, and a host of smallergroups.

Margaret Bruetsch/Democrat

Charles Petersheim, left, with Jeff Bank Vice President George Kinne. Petersheim creditedthe bank with continuing to extend his company credit despite the economic downturn.

Contributed photos

Petersheim’s modern interpretation of the classic “farm house” makes for a very popular understated and unfussy elegance. Along with Jeff Bank’s support, the success of Catskill Farms, is then, no surprise.

Margaret Bruetsch/Democrat

Charles Petersheim looks over house plansat his Catskill Farms office in Eldred.

The Partnership is a vital facilitatorbetween existing businesses and newventures thinking about SullivanCounty.

The Partnership excels at highlight-ing thriving Sullivan County business-es which may be unknown to most butinspiring to those contemplating astartup venture or expansion.

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Foglia started the store as a restaurantcalled Casa Maria in 1987; it became a bak-ery four years later in 1991. “Monticello hasalways been good to us, supported us,”Foglia explained.“We’re restructuring andreinvesting in Monticello.”

She added, “We keep our fingers crossedthat the community will support us as theyalways have. We believe we’ve been get-ting them a good product, and we’vealways had a great response.”

Both Carmela and her now ex-husbandGiulio still work in the business. “This hasbeen part of my vision,” she explained,“because my son has expressed an interest

Carmela Foglia, co-owner of De Filippi’sBakery, shows off the displays full of deli-cious cakes, pastries and breads.

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The couple also has another son,Vincenzo.

In a true Italian family tradition,Foglia’s parents started a bakery inMiddletown in 1971, and in 1987Carmela, Giulio, and brother Angelostarted in the present location. Angelo isopening another shop in Middletown,while Carmela, Giulio and son Felicecontinue in Monticello.

Foglia apologized for the appearanceof the shop during the renovations. Shedescribed what it’s going to be like:“What’s now the whole back wall in theshop area will be removed; behind itwill be the café, and to the left the fullbagel store. It will be beautiful.”

When asked why she thought thebakery has been so successful, Foglioreplied, “We’re a small business, wehave a tight budget, and we always tryto do the best we can.”

Most of De Filippi’s clientele is fromMonticello, but some people come fromPort Jervis, Wurtsboro and all overSullivan County.

De Filippi’s also does a full wholesalebusiness all throughout the county, andinto Pennsylvania, Middletown, and

Ellenville. Outside the bakery.

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This marked improvement is an impor-tant step for DVJCC, which just last yearwas on a targeted list of Job CorpsCenters which may be closed due to fed-eral budget constraints. Now, with itsdramatic improvement in student success,LaFleur said he was hopeful his centerwas not only off the list but also in linefor significant federal funding to address avariety of facility rehabilitation needs.

“The Dept. of Labor, which administersthe Job Corps program, is very happywith us,” LaFleur reported.

The DVJCC has approximately 315 stu-dents enrolled in its nine trade programsas well as 135 staff. Its annual budget is$10 million.

“We have been actively reaching out tothe community and would love to enrolllocal students who are in need of focusand help in finishing their high schoolcareers and learning a trade,” LaFleur said.

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“It’s actually very exciting news for our company,”

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Last year ND Pro Media had won its first Bronze Telly

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ND Pro Media Inc. just celebrated its second anniver-

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