From the 7/17/09 Daily Herald:
Q. How do you go about supporting business development in your community?
A. Volo is a home rule community and that allows a certain amount of flexibility in the amount of help we can give a developer, such as sales tax rebates. We are also able to extend water and sewer systems to vacant or developable land such as the area of Route 12 and Volo Village Road.
Q. What is currently in the works (ground has been broken or will be in the next couple months)?
A. At the present time, I only see one project that could break ground in the next several months; that is a Thornton's gas station at the Northeast corner of Route 12 and Volo Village Road.
Q. What is in the planning stages?
A. The more than 700,000-square-foot retail development, planned by Mid-America/Orput Group, is still ready to start as soon as there is a better economic picture.
Q. What is your town's biggest economic development wish?
A. Our residential communities are still growing and our commercial area is still alive. Our wish is for a better economy.
Q. What is your community's single greatest asset or selling point to potential developers?
A. Volo's greatest selling point to developers is its location within a major road network that Volo continues to improve by our efforts to update the major intersections of Route 12 and Molidor Road, Route 120 and Fish Lake Road, Route 60 and Fish Lake Road and Route 120 and Route 60.
Q. Have the challenges presented by the current downturn forced you and your community to approach economic development differently? What are the changes and how well are they working?
A. The current economic downturn has required us to reconsider some of the projects on our to-do list and look for other sources of funding those most necessary. We have had only limited success with applications through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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