Creating a Greene County "Shopping Mecca".

The article reports on the public meeting held by the Greene County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) on June 26, 2007 at the Cornell Hook and Ladder Co. in New Baltimore, New York. Themed "Destination retail," the meeting focused on IDA's plans for the huge complex proposed for the Route 9W corridor at Thruway Exit 21B. IDA executive director Alexander Mathes referred the project as a shopping mecca, which will include a cultural arts center, the author inferred.