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MissionFormed by an unprecedented citizens’ alliance from all walks and interests, the Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance has been given a sweeping mandate to facilitate a complete economic makeover and playbook for a new prosperity for Ticonderoga and its immediate surrounding region and to declare unacceptable and to reverse a now near forty year downward economic spiral.  Simply put -- a new prosperity with valued regional and global ties, focused on funneling a continuing stream of investments into: (i) a substantially expanded series of small and mid-sized entrepreneurial businesses, with emphasis on year-round, higher wage/value added jobs and the requisite quality of life underpinnings and academic links to attract such jobs; and (ii) a vibrant tourist destination economy, with a burgeoning mix of downtown storefront and artisan and artist activity, strong for nine months of the year, with its geographic backbone originating from both a rehabilitated, walk-able, mixed use and residential downtown area as well as revitalized Fort Ticonderoga property and active working relationship between Fort and Town. Read more... In the News: Public radio program features TRA as exemplary revitalization effort |  | 
June 6, 2011 Ticonderoga and the Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance are being highlighted in a four-part series on State of the Re:Union, a public radio project that profiles cities around the country that are building communi – the people behind the work, the challenges they face, and their visions of the future. The four-part series will be published during June and July. Click here to check it out! |
Read The Ti StoryTiconderoga, a postcard picturesque town of 5,300 souls in upstate New York, serves as the gateway to six million acres of the Adirondack State Park. Here, in the fabled North Country of James Fennimore Cooper and The Last of the Mohicans, is the birthplace of America’s best preserved pre-revolutionary fort. Here, between Lake George and Lake Champlain, is where North America’s political boundaries were defined. Read More... News Flash
"Now is the Time for Rural America to Act"
Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, writes that wealth is quickly leaving rural communities and that the time is now to intervene on this issue. "For each day that we stall, more and more wealth is transferred out of our rural communities - money that can be used for education, health centers, workforce development, and disaster rebuilding." While Gunderson stresses the role of philanthropy, the Alliance also believes that timing is critical, and the time is now, to reclaim Ticonderoga's future. |