Engineering retreat

Work on a gaming company’s retreat could begin this year

By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ
Posted 3/10/21

MONTICELLO, NY — The location is still undisclosed, but the county’s Partnership for Economic Development dropped a little more information about the tech company retreat.

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Engineering retreat

Work on a gaming company’s retreat could begin this year

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MONTICELLO, NY — The location is still undisclosed, but the county’s Partnership for Economic Development dropped a little more information about the tech company retreat.

Ecotech retreat? Artists’ colony for those we usually don’t think of as needing one? 

Whatever it’s called, it’ll be a gathering place in the woods for developers to work and relax, created by unidentified people in the gaming industry, connected to tech companies like Google. Partnership president/CEO Marc Baez talked about it at last Thursday’s Economic Development committee meeting. 

To be located on a former hunt-club property, the project (retreat? colony?) would feature pods of three to five cabins, 300 to 400 square feet in size. “The intent of the company,” Baez said, “is not to disturb the environment if at all possible.” 

The retreat would not be open to the public.

The point for the workers “is to come to this site and work in teams on these games. It’s more like an artists’ kind of retreat. They get into the zone, they want to be quiet, at one with nature,” and when work is done, “they can quit and go for a bike ride or a hike.” 

The proprietors have lived in  Sullivan County for more than a decade.

“The hope of the company is to bring these employees here, to make this their home in the future,” Baez said. This would be their primary business site. “Moving forward, they did not renew their lease in Manhattan.” 

Which implies commitment. 

“We want these types of jobs here,” Baez said. “They’re in high demand, they’re high wage jobs, they’re hi-tech... that’s a big deal for us, it’s a paradigm shift in the types of industry we bring into the county. It’s what’s in demand today, and we think we can build upon that.” 

If all goes well, work could start in the spring of this year, he said.

Engineering, Sullivan county, retreat, partnership for economic development

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