Rockland Economic Development Corporation (REDC) focuses on building Rockland's economy by creating and attracting…More new businesses and retaining and expanding existing businesses to stimulate job growth as a way of improving the quality of life in Rockland County. Its role is to coordinate the operations of economic development programs and services for business and industry in Rockland County.</p> <p>REDC provides access to economic development financing incentives, marketing, technical assistance, government contracting programs, information and referrals. Additionally, it houses and administers the Rockland County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), the newly established Rockland County Economic Assistance Corporation (RCEAC), which operate independently, a Small Business Center (SBC) and provides counseling space for the Rockland County chapter of SCORE.</p> <p>To achieve its goals, REDC designs programs and services for the attraction, retention and expansion of business, for marketing of the County of Rockland and REDC, and for the provision of business assistance and information services.</p>

Orange & Rockland provides energy for customers in Rockland, Sullivan and Orange Counties in New York. One…More subsidiary, Rockland Electric Company, serves Bergen, Sussex and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. Another, Pike County Light & Power Co., serves Pike County in Pennsylvania. All combined, the company provides electricty for approximately 300,000 people and natural gas for 128,000.</p> <p>Orange & Rockland placed its corporate headquarters in Blue Hill Plaza in 1977. It has since moved from the top three floors of Building One to its current locations on the first and fourth floors, but it has remained in that building for all of those 33 years.  Orange & Rockland currently employs 75 people at the corporate headquarters.</p> <p>The 24-hour Gas Emergencies phone number is 1-800-533-5325.</p> <p>Orange & Rockland has been a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. since 1999.</p>