Sentences with phrase «companies cities want»

«This is about the sort of companies cities want to embrace,» Rogers said.

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«You have got this 10 - year vision and you know where you want to go... that's why you started a company,» said Tilenius, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City recently.

MedMen, the cannabis company with west coast locations from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, wants its flagship store in New York City to contribute to their larger goal of destigmatizing use and moving beyond «stoner culture.»

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

The company started renting space at an incubator in Sunnyvale — a 10 - minute car ride from Google's headquarters, and just over 20 km from Facebook's new base in Menlo Park — only to find out that «the city where young developers want to be is San Francisco,» Doerksen says.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Musk has said he wants to build a commercial Hyperloop between New York City and Washington, DC, through his newest venture, the Boring Company.

While eventually he'd love to open in 50 cities in six months, he wants the company to win its current markets first.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration wants to curb Uber's growth in the city until the completion of a study on the company's impact on NYC's already congested streets.

«It will not be a significant tool, although I can see some companies wanting to use this to give them access to investors they might not have access to otherwise,» says Stephen Wink, a partner in law firm Latham and Watkins» New York City office.

«We are mildly successful in at least one city... but we want people who are going to make it their mission to [grow] this company.»

Although the company wants to maintain its progressive image, the need to pick a growing city with great talent persists.

The company says the campus will bring 50,000 jobs over the next two decades, and most of the 20 finalist cities have said they are offering economic incentives to lure the tech giant — for example, New Jersey has said it wants to award Amazon $ 7 billion in tax breaks if it chooses the Newark area.

«There are several major U.S. cities that want Amazon, but none has the branding opportunity we are now offering this visionary company,» Mayor Jason Lary told the Journal - Constitution.

And McKelvey wants the city to stop dragging its feet in letting peer - to - peer ridesharing companies launch in St. Louis.

Now, almost as if in response, the city of San Francisco has outlined plans to tax the tech companies if they want to continue offering their workers private transportation.

In honor of the pre-Thanksgiving grocery binge, the New York Times does something I've always wanted to do: it compares the prices of a typical supermarket with those of FreshDirect, the New York City - based grocery delivery company.

If your company too is looking to find locations rich in potential young employees, you'll probably want to narrow things down, aiming not just for any old inner - city location but one that is the among the hottest for well - educated young people.

The company wants to try the wireless method in non-commercial tests starting in six California cities and six other cities scattered around the country, Google said in an August 5 filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

The mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, has made it clear he doesn't want to give Kushner Companies a dime of subsidy to build...

Google wants to reinvent the modern city — so it launched a new independent company, called Sidewalk Labs, to do just that.

Ms. Corcoran started her career as an entrepreneur when, at the age of 22, she decided she wanted to be her own boss, borrowed $ 1,000 and launched a real - estate company in New York City.

«There are several major U.S. cities that want Amazon, but none has the branding opportunity we are now offering this visionary company,» said Stonecrest Mayor Jason Lary.

What if the company wants to expand beyond the city of San Pablo, California?

«The city's argument will be why New York City is the only place you'd want to establish yourself as one of the most dynamic and exciting tech companies in the decades ahead.&racity's argument will be why New York City is the only place you'd want to establish yourself as one of the most dynamic and exciting tech companies in the decades ahead.&raCity is the only place you'd want to establish yourself as one of the most dynamic and exciting tech companies in the decades ahead.»

In 2014, global online community Reddit asked remote workers, as well as people working in the company's Salt Lake City and New York City offices, to relocate to the main office in the San Francisco Bay area if they wanted to keep their jobs.

It is a company that has invested in our community, our city, and our country and I want to support that.

In addition to Hardee's, Westar recently added two Corner Bakery Cafe restaurants in the Kansas City market under Café Foods Inc. «We wanted to add some balance to our company,» Westermajer says.

By Jamie Morgan company profile Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt www.orangeleafyogurt.com Headquarters: Oklahoma City Corporate Employees: 12 Stores: 66 Specialty: Self - serve frozen yogurt and toppings Reese Travis, owner and CEO: «The customer is always happy if they make their desserts exactly the way they want it.»

People enjoy Nando's PERi-PERi sauce in its restaurants in 26 markets across the world — including Chicago and Washington D.C. in the U.S. — but the company wanted to launch its bottled sauce to consumers in cities where it did not have restaurants.

Ten years ago, your current products want information regarding fashion you'd be go to big cities to find out others companies.

Disclosure forms filed by the Campaign For One New York show it accepted numerous contributions from companies that did business with the city or wanted something from his administration.

A Brooklyn company in the doghouse with the city over their heated sidewalk dog shelters wants to change the law so they can get back in business.

The New York corporations want to be included in the plan to move to a payroll tax, but the administration source declined to name companies, citing instead the Partnership for New York City, which represents business leaders and employers.

Sen. Jim Seward, the Republican sponsor of the bill, had previously indicated this week he would want to see a vote on his version of the legislation, if anything to show a statement of support for allowing companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in upstate cities.

Disclosure forms filed by the mayor's nonprofit group, the Campaign For One New York, show that it accepted numerous contributions from companies that did business with the city or wanted something from his administration.

Concerns were recently raised when the Department of Education wanted to award a contract to expand internet access in city schools to a company that was tied to a kickback scandal.

Locally, the 35,000 - member Hotel Trades Council, a union representing hotel workers, pushed for that law and also wants city and state lawmakers to require the company to disclose hosts» addresses, according to Crain's New York.

The Common Council is asking city lawyers to come up with a law to force tax payments from people or companies that want something from the city.

Those clients include Forest City Ratner, the Brooklyn company leading the $ 260 million Nassau Coliseum renovations; KPMG, the financial advisers that want to help the county lease its sprawling sewer system to private investors for as much as $ 800 million; and American Traffic Solutions, the operators of the county's red - light camera program, which typically gets more than $ 5 million annually in ticket revenue.

Along the south side of the Allegany River, visible from the Southern Tier expressway in Cattaraugus County, a New York City based company called EverPower wants to build a wind farm.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute will rebid the $ 12.5 million training center for clean energy companies that it wants to build on the city's Hudson River waterfront.

McLellan said he's unsure of exactly what the city wants his company to do, but he has discussed providing technical expertise and conducting some lead testing.

Airbnb is facing increasing scrutiny from state officials, including a lawsuit from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who wants to examine the company's records because he believes they are violating the city's rental laws by allowing listings for entire apartments.

If she wanted to do that, she said, she could have selected a company without seeking bids, which the city charter allows.

By Sean Ryan The president of a sewer construction company near Milwaukee wants the city to spend more federal stimulus money on sewer construction.

As part of a worldwide campaign, 350NYC wants the City of New York to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership of any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.

The task force wants the Common Council to pass a non-binding resolution requiring COR to sign a community benefits agreement if the company receives tax breaks or other assistance from the city.

The position and company had nothing to do with the field in which I wanted to work but it allowed me to move to a fun city, get an apartment with friends, have health insurance, and start to figure out what I really wanted to do.

Next year, she wants to add more cities to the TDR rolodex, and her strategic partnerships with companies like Match and OKCupid will help provide the client base needed to hit the ground running in new locations.