Alex MacLean, two-time campaign manager and longtime top aide to Gov. Peter Shumlin, will help manage a vast economic development project slated for the Northeast Kingdom.
Bill Stenger — co-owner of Jay Peak and the architect of the initiative — expects the project will cost more than $800 million and create 10,000 jobs.
Gov. Shumlin made the announcement today at a press conference held in Montpelier.
MacLean will oversee investor recruitment and investor relations for the project, which relies almost entirely on the EB-5 program — a federal arrangement that grants green cards to foreign investors who put a minimum of $500,000 into U.S. businesses — for funding. MacLean will also manage communications for the project.
MacLean, 30, is a Northeast Kingdom native. She starts on Jan. 21 and says her “immediate focus” will be two projects — the expansion of Burke Mountain ski resort and the redevelopment of a section of downtown Newport.
