The Alleghany Highlands Economic Development Corporation is the marketing organization promoting Alleghany County, the City of Covington and the Towns of Clifton Forge and Iron Gate for business recruitment, expansion and development. A public/private partnership, AHEDC focuses on Site Readiness, Infrastructure Management, Site Selection Outreach and Workforce Development. The organization also serves as a key information source for applicable data, regulatory compliance and funding opportunities to help you successfully launch, expand or relocate a business to the region.
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Alleghany County's Bicentennial Celebration
Alleghany County’s Bicentennial Celebration – Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Mountain Gateway Community College from 3 pm to 10 pm.
This FREE event includes a car show, kids’ fest, dance performances, food, retail vendors, live music, fireworks and a beer garden.
Music will be performed by EagleMania, an Eagles tribute band, Caleb Bailey & Paine’s Run along with Caleb Carpenter.
Kids events will consist of a mechanical bull, rock climbing wall, 100-foot inflatable obstacle course, 20-foot double lane slide and a bounce house. There will also be tie dying, face painting, icees and funnel cakes. The event will end with a fireworks display from our very own Ray Keen.
Come celebrate Alleghany County’s 200th birthday!
Click on photo to enlarge!
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Business Spotlight
Ingevity
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It is time again for a business spotlight and we are proud to bring to you Ingevity!
Can you tell us all about Ingevity and what the company does?
Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect, and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. We operate in two reporting segments: Performance Chemicals, which includes specialty chemicals and engineered polymers; and Performance Materials, which includes high-performance activated carbon. These products are used in a variety of demanding applications, including asphalt paving, oil exploration and production, agrochemicals, adhesives, lubricants, publication inks, coatings, elastomers, bioplastics and automotive components that reduce gasoline vapor emissions. Headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, Ingevity operates from 25 locations around the world and employs approximately 1,850 people.
In Covington, we produce activated carbon as part of our Performance Materials segment. The activated carbon our Covington team members make for our customers are used in automobiles all over the world to clean and protect the environment from harmful evaporative emissions. Activated carbon is also used to purify in food and beverage, municipal water treatment, specialty and industrial chemical processes. Here's a link to our plant spotlight video. https://youtu.be/xKuzGKkhBVE More info here. Village Infographic here.
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Cliff View Golf Course, Brewhouse & Inn |
We have another Business Spotlight for you that offers a Brewhouse, Golf Course, and an absolutely gorgeous Inn!
Can you tell us about Cliff View Golf Course & Inn and The Brewhouse?
Cliff View Golf Club Inc. is a family-owned business that is nestled on a nearly 140-acre track in the mountains of the Alleghany Highlands of Virginia, and the property boasts nearly a mile of river front along the Jackson River. Cliff View Golf Club Inc. was established by owners Frank E. Jr and Susan Reynolds Sponaugle, both natives of Alleghany County, in July 1996 with the opening of a 9-hole golf course that was built by Frank Jr and his son Matthew on what had been the Sponaugle family cattle farm since 1954. Frank and Matthew continued their work on the property and grew the golf course to what is known today as an 18-hole course.
In 2000, the family expanded their business with the addition of a 9-room inn on the property to promote flyfishing trips along the Jackson River on the property, giving fisherman a place to conveniently stay in a beautiful setting close to the river they would fish.
Over the course of the next 25 years Cliff View Golf Club Inc. would continue to be run by the Sponaugle family. There was a family style restaurant operated by the family for several years on the property but was closed in 2000 due to the workload and the elder Sponaugles approach to retirement. The focus of the business remained on the golf course and the adjacent inn. More info here. You can also visit their website here.
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SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
We believe in having a child like mind when it comes to learning. Open to all possibilities.
Our workshops, events, and programs are designed with a small business owner in mind. Actionable, sharing of ideas, and takeaways to keep things straight.
Every thing you need to start, recover, grown and manage your business is here and it is FREE.
Workshops can be found here.
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Some Available Properties For Lease/Sale
Historic Downtown for Lease
376 W. Main Street Covington - Store front - 11,760 sq. ft. C3 Zoning
221/225 N. Court Avenue Covington - C3 Zoning
For Sale
520 Main Street Covington - 11,156 sq. ft. C3 Zoning
606 S. Monroe Avenue Covington - 25,000 sq. ft. M1 Zoning
239 Maple Avenue Covington - 6,600 sq. ft. C1 Zoning
424 E. Ridgeway Street, Clifton Forge, VA - 3,300 sq. ft. CFBD Zoning - Turnkey Restaurant For Sale Serious Inquiries Only Call 540.862.4119
Other For Lease
1107 Craig Avenue - 27,412 sq. ft. C3 Zoning
Contact Terri at terri@ahedc.com or call 540.862.0936 to advertise your space or
to be connected to the property owner
More properties available here
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