Sentences with phrase «biggest economic development initiative»

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In the meantime, Cuomo is continuing to tout what he considers his biggest policy achievement last week: Getting the Legislature to pass Start - Up NY, a rebranded version of his economic development initiative Tax Free - NY.

Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.

Both firms are also big Cuomo donors and, like Percoco, are caught up in a federal probe into the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program and nanotechnology initiatives.

Changes that lawmakers want to economic development programs were made ripe following allegations by federal prosecutors that the Buffalo Billion and a couple of other big upstate initiatives were part of a massive, alleged pay - to - play, bid - rigging scandal.

«Two of the mayor's biggest initiatives relate to increasing retail in New York City,» says Charles Millard, president of the New York City Economic Development Corp..