OC Partnership fetes MVP Nick Fitzpatrick

The Orange County Partnership celebrated farmer-turned-entrepreneur Nick Fitzpatrick, President of Aden Land Holdings of Montgomery, as the organization 2023 Most Valuable Partner.

Fitzpatrick was honored June 6 at the Partnership’s Annual Most Valuable Partner Breakfast, which was held at The Barn at Villa Venezia in Middletown and attended by hundreds of people.

Fitzpatrick is at the helm of a growing family-run enterprise that includes Aden Brook Farm, Aden Land Holdings, Aden Aggregates and Aden Logistics and has facilitated the sale of critical large parcels of land that generated a half a billion dollars in investment and thousands of construction and permanent jobs. Those sales included the vast parcel that made way for Medline’s $120 million, nearly 1.4-million-square-foot facility in Montgomery.

“The cumulative impact of his keen no-nonsense development foresight has led to what will generate millions in multipliers that will benefit Orange County in perpetuity,” said Orange County Partnership President and CEO Maureen Halahan. “For these and so many other reasons, it was an easy choice and, in fact, a unanimous choice of the Partnership board to honor him as this year’s Most Valuable Partner.”

Most recently, Aden Land Holdings sold a pair of large parcels in the Wawayanda hamlet of Slate Hill to Scannell Properties of Indianapolis, leading to a proposed $380 million in investment two projects - a 900,000square-foot Amazon facility and an 800,000-square-foot build-to-suit for a beverage distribution company. The projects - dubbed the Slate Hill Commerce Center - stand to result in hundreds of construction and permanent jobs as well as the extension of infrastructure down the Route 6 corridor.

Scannell has estimated that construction could start on the project in the second quarter of 2023 and be completed around the third quarter of 2024 or 2025’s second quarter.

Fitzpatrick accepted his award with brief remarks thanking his family and colleagues and adding that Orange County is a great place to live and do business.

“We have everything we need to take care of our people right here,” Fitzpatrick said.