LITTLE VALLEY — A proposed Community Development Block Grant of up to $750,000 is being proposed to assist Ellicottville Brewing Co. to establish a brewing and bottling facility in Little Valley.
Ellicottville Brewing is eyeing $6 million in work to expand its production to supply new and existing markets. The new facility, plus a small restaurant and bar, could provide between 30 and 40 full- and part-time jobs in the next two years.
The former Salamanca Area Beverage Co. Inc., on Second Avenue in the village of Little Valley, will be turned into a craft beer brewery and bottling facility. It is located near the Pat McGee Trail.
The Cattaraugus County Legislature held a public hearing Oct. 12 on use of a grant from the state Office of Community Renewal. No one spoke. The block grant would be used to aid the craft brewer.
A resolution is expected to be pre-filed in time for Legislature committees to consider them Oct. 19, according to Crystal Abers, director of the Department of Economic Development, Planning and Tourism.
The resolution will be referred to the Development and Agriculture Committee and the Finance Committee.
The Ellicottville Brewing project is also listed as a priority project by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, of which Abers is a member.
IN OTHER BUSINESS:
Legislators authorized spending up to $10,100 for engineering services to relocate the Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau, Real Property Tax Services and some Health Department personnel in space at the former Cattaraugus-Little Valley school in Little Valley. The Real Property Tax Services office, which had been in temporary space, will be moved to the old school, as will the youth and health departments’ personnel formerly housed in the old supervisor’s building on Erie Street the state condemned last month. Williamsville-based Wendel WD, Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture will provide the engineering services.
Legislators agreed to a two-year contract with SubCon Industries for cleaning services at the Olean-based county offices for up to $181,265.40 a year.