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Incentives designed to encourage more housing development are available in and around Franklin, the county seat of Pendleton County, after the area was designated a West Virginia BUILD District by the state Economic Development office last week.

The new authority will be called the Seneca Rocks Regional Development Authority capitalizing on the name recognition of one of the most iconic locations in West Virginia.

The Pendleton County Economic and Community Development Authority and the Grant County Development Authority are partnering together to form a new regional joint economic development authority.