May 2010 Economic Development Report

Nelson County Department of Economic Development and Tourism

Board of Supervisors Report

May 2010                                                                             

 

Projects

  • Received federal broadband grant
  • Advising University of Virginia students in a Community Food Class audit
  • 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
  • Representing the region at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Community Day April 21
  • 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
  • Hosting 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)
  • Assisting with 2010 anniversary of the Virginia Scenic Rivers program
  • 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

 

April Meetings

April 1 – Shenandoah National Park 75th celebration

April 1 – Economic Development Authority

April 2 – The Festy

April 5 – Broadband webinar

April 6 – Monticello Golf Trail

April 6 – Artisan Trail

April 8 – Scenic River

April 3 – Small Business Development Center and Rural Development

April 3 – Local Food Hub

April 15 – Virginia Small Business Financing Authority

April 16 – Nelson County Bike Festival

April 16 – Virginia Craft Brewers Guild

April 20 – Service Corps of Retired Executives

April 20 – Broadband webinar

April 21 – Defense Intelligence Agency

April 22 – Broadband webinar

April 23 – Nelson County Bike Festival

April 26 -  Wintergreen Resort

April 27 – Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development

April 28-29 – Virginia Tourism Corporation travel writers for Blue Ridge Parkway 75th

April 30 – Summer Solstice Festival

 

Montebello Fish Hatchery

605 visitors in April 2010

 

Tourism Statistics                    

                April 2010               Fiscal YTD     April 2009       Fiscal YTD

Phone     576                           4815                534                  6089   

Internet   211,903                    2,178,140        203,201                       2,096,084

Walk In  1057                          9017                1248                8713

                       

Taxes        March 2010            Fiscal YTD      March 2009      Fiscal YTD   

Lodging    $     24,648             329,923                       13,938             335,348

Meals        $     44,745             449,629                       39,458             421,352