Business announces relocation to Cohoes

Rod Dion, owner of Tech Valley Office Interiors, a 15-year-old office furniture dealership, bought a 10,600-square-foot building at 50 Mohawk St., Cohoes and will be moving his business to the new location.

The company is currently located at 30 Kraft Ave., Albany. Dion expects the move to be complete by the first week of July. The deal was brokered by Alison Burnside of Dartmouth Realty and Dan Lesage of Hunt Realty. Financing was provided by Capital Bank and the Al-tech Fund through the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce.

The new location was built in 1978 for Dansk Dishware and was used, until recently, by Key Bank as a regional mail headquarters.

In addition to Dion’s business and Nu2u Quality Used Office furniture, the building will house the first co-working space in Cohoes, Harmony Co-working, managed by Tech Valley Office Interiors staff. It will have space for 20 people.

The space will include a 4,000 square-foot showroom, a 3,000 square-foot warehouse and a “Quickshop” showroom. Tech Valley Interiors has eight full-time employees and several part-time installation staffers.

Tech Valley will use its new space to show customers how to retrofit work spaces for a postpandemic work environment.

Dion is also the chairman of the Cohoes Industrial Development Agency. He’s excited about moving his company back into his home community.

“This is a dream I never thought would come true. The building, and the opportunity to move jobs back to Cohoes is so exciting for all involved. My young design staff is extremely excited about moving to a more walkable community,” Dion said.

Builders group names scholarship winners

Patrick Egan and Sean Kempf, both of Saratoga Springs, are

this year’s winners of two $1,000 scholarships from the Saratoga Builders Association. One will receive the annual SBA scholarship and the other earned the annual Bob Best Memorial award, in memory of Best, a local craftsman and member of the builder community who died in 2018.

Both Egan and Kempf are seniors at Saratoga Springs High School and both plan to study construction management in college, Kempf at Alfred State College and Egan at SUNY Oswego .

The scholarships go each year to high school seniors or college students who plan a career in the construction industry.