Johnson Outdoors has been awarded $500,000 by New York's Empire State Flood Recovery Grant Program after its Binghamton, NY tent manufacturing facility was damaged in June of 2006. The grant will be made in two payments: half upon approval of the application and half upon completion of flood damage remediation efforts.
Production resumed at the facility in August and administrative offices, which had operated out of a temporary location after the flooding, reopened at the facility in January 2007.
“On behalf of everyone at Johnson Outdoors, I want to thank the state of New York for taking prompt action to help spur the economic recovery of a region devastated by last year's flooding,” said Helen Johnson-Leipold, chairman and CEO.
Funding for the New York state flood grant program was made available by $12 million in state appropriations and re-appropriations to the Empire State Development Corporation. Businesses and organizations located across 20 designated counties in New York state were eligible to receive assistance under the flood grant program.
