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West Mountain Developers Target 2027 Groundbreaking For Destination Resort

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An aerial view shows West Mountain Ski Area in Queensbury, where developers plan The Woods at West Mountain, a $170 million to $190 million year-round resort targeted for a 2027 groundbreaking.
Courtesy West Mountain

By Rod Bacon

After five years of planning, design work and permitting — and 14 years of vision and conceptualization since the Montgomerys took ownership in 2013 — The Woods at West Mountain is on the cusp of becoming a reality.

“It has always been the plan/solution for the ensured history of West Mountain,” said Spencer Montgomery, an owner and operator of West Mountain Ski Area with his wife, Sara Montgomery, and two partners.

After the Queensbury Planning Board approved a zoning change for the ski area to Planned Resort Development, or PRD, in December 2025, things shifted into high gear.

While the concept plan for the project has been in place for five years, those who will implement it held a two-day kickoff “envisioning” seminar last month at the ski area.

“We had taken the conceptual sketch of the plan and engineering to the town and got it approved,” said Spencer. “Now we’re creating the final site plan, which involves showing them where each building and other elements of the project are going to go.”

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Regional Investment Pipeline Keeps Economic Development Outlook Strong For 2027

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By Paul Post

Economic development officials are quite optimistic looking ahead to 2027 as significant private and public investment remains strong throughout the region.

In Warren County, health care, tourism and the arts are extremely high priorities.

Hudson Headwaters Health Network and Glens Falls Hospital together employ almost 4,000 people.

“We’re supporting a number of efforts, but perhaps the most meaningful is one to support the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which is the funding mechanism that supports rural health care development not only Warren County, but throughout northern New York,” said Jim Siplon, Warren County Economic Development Corporation president.

A federal initiative created in 1992, 340B requires drug makers to sell outpatient medications, such as blood pressure pills, at reduced prices to health care organizations that quite often serve low-income, uninsured or vulnerable patients. The savings allow these medical providers to stretch tight budgets and provide more services in underserved areas.

“Most of Hudson Headwater’s 26 facilities were built on the back of 340B,” Siplon said. “So making sure it’s protected and sustained is a huge effort on our part.”

On another front, several multiyear funding efforts are having a transformational impact in various parts of Warren County.

Work is nearing completion on a major overhaul of South Street in Glens Falls, thanks largely to a state Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant the city received a decade ago. A separate DRI grant is having a major impact in Lake George, where a new high-tech performance space recently opened at Shepard Park.

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