June 2010 Economic Development Report
Nelson County Department of Economic Development and Tourism
Board of Supervisors Report
June 2010
Projects
- Received federal broadband grant-submitting Dept. of Housing and Community Development Local Innovation Grant ($200,000) for local match for federal grant
- Received University of Virginia students Community Food Class audit report
- Nelson County is a mandatory stop for the Virginia Tourism 2010 Motorcycle Grand tour
- Opened the Monticello Golf Trail
- Working with Lynchburg Small Business Development Center on a Rural Development loan program
- Hosted 10 travel writers on VA Tourism Corporation tour of Blue Ridge Parkway
- Updating the Buy Fresh Buy Local publications with Nelson producers
- Working with a new event, The Festy, October 9-10
- Coordinating marketing efforts with Amherst County for the Virginia Summer Solstice Festival
- Assisting with the green infrastructure inventory program
- Hosted the quarterly meeting of the Virginia rural economic development directors
May 3
- Management Team liaison for Dept. of Housing and Community Development planning grant project for artisan trail network
- Assisting with the new Virginia Craft Brewers Guild
- Assisting with Fish Virginia First marketing
- Working with the Nelson County Bike Festival (August 28-29, 2010)
- Coordinating tourism program for TransDominion Express with regional partners
- Assisting with Crozet Tunnel project
- Blue Ridge Parkway 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
- Shenandoah National Park 75th anniversary celebration coordinator
- Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services local rural economic development directors committee
- Coordinating Afton Greenwood historic district
- Marketing regional brewery trail – Brew Ridge Trail
- Assisting with Buy Local projects with Economic Development Authority
- Virginia Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War Committee
- Working with Wintergreen Resort on marketing initiatives
May Meetings
May 3 – Virginia Rural Economic Development Directors
May 4 – Amherst SesquiBicentennial Celebration
May 6 – Shenandoah National Park 75th anniversary
May 6 – Economic Development Authority
May 7 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development
May 10 – Summer Solstice Festival
May 11 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development
May 11 – Public hearing for Local Innovation Grant application
May 12 – Artisan Trail
May 12 – Virginia Agribusiness Workshop
May 13 – Artisan Trail
May 14 – Brew Ridge Trail
May 17 – Virginia Employment Commission
May 18 – Wintergreen Resort marketing
May 19 – Artisan Trail
May 20 – Summer Solstice festival
May 20 – Local Food Hub
May 24 – Route 151 marketing project
May 25 – Wintergreen Resort marketing
Montebello Fish Hatchery
859 visitors in May 2010
Tourism Statistics
May 2010 Fiscal YTD May 2009 Fiscal YTD
Phone 458 5273 432 6521
Internet 211,950 2,390,090 205,987 2,302,071
Walk In
Taxes April 2010 Fiscal YTD April 2009 Fiscal YTD
Lodging $ 15,464 345,387 18,304 353,652
Meals $ 37,585 487,848 38,226 459,578