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The New York real estate developer, who has never held elected public office, touts his practical experience on economic matters and potential to create jobs, blaming President Barack Obama for what he calls a weak recovery from the economic recession.
Next year, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial along with the former president of SUNY Nanotech and upstate developers, who are accused of being involved in a bribery and bid - rigging scheme for economic development projects.
Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.
No local officials hesitated when the governor offered Buffalo $ 1 billion, said Howard Zemsky, a developer who chairs the governor's regional economic development council for Western New York.
Mr. Percoco, who had served as Mr. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, is accused of soliciting and taking more than $ 315,000 in bribes from 2012 to 2016 from two companies: Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company that was seeking state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley, and COR Development, a major developer in the Syracuse area that ended up with several large state - funded economic development projects.
A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.
Empire State Development, the state economic development agency, sometimes grants waivers to hotel developers who claim a labor peace agreement would make their project uneconomic.
At the same time, Cuomo said he had not been interviewed by law enforcement authorities, who moved last week to charge his former top aide Joe Percoco, SUNY Polytechnic chief Alain Kaloyeros and prominent upstate developers who have received state business for economic development programs.
Ciminelli is among the upstate developers who has been charged in the federal case, whose company has played a prominent role in the Buffalo Billion economic development program.
Economic development spending has come under renewed scrutiny after the governor's former top aide was arrested last year and charged in a sweeping bid - rigging case that included prominent upstate developers who have received contracts under the state's job spending efforts.
Other projects pledge to revive a local economy, such as Foxwoods developers, who believe the Catksills can see economic growth and increased tourism once again thanks to casino gambling.
Mr. Culliton, who oversees all aspects of the economic development activities of the ECIDA and its affiliated corporations, was honored as the 2011 Economic Developer of the Year by the New York State Economic Development economic development activities of the ECIDA and its affiliated corporations, was honored as the 2011 Economic Developer of the Year by the New York State Economic Development Economic Developer of the Year by the New York State Economic Development Economic Development Council.
In May, just as the session winds down, a trial is scheduled for former SUNY nano mastermind Alain Kaloyeros and a host of upstate developers, although as much on the block for scrutiny will be the governor's upstate economic development schemes, and those who carried out his wishes.
Kenneth Adams, who was president of the Business Council at the time, has been appointed to serve as Cuomo's top economic developer.
Felony bid - rigging charges filed Sept. 22 against SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros, lobbyist Todd Howe and developers in other upstate cities have brought a new round of scrutiny to the college's shadowy contracting practices as Cuomo's administration scrambles to reconfigure who oversees the state's major economic development projects.
While in the minds of its developers and supporters the Nevele should be a sure bet for a casino license, it is up against some stiff competition from developers looking to build casinos in Orange County, who argue that with the county's proximity to the city and Stewart International Airport offer the best chance for economic success.
The Planning Commission's most significant modification to the proposal concerned the Department of Housing Preservation and Development's role in appeals developers can make to the Board of Standards and Appeals, which could waive MIH requirements for those who prove an economic hardship.
As part of the deal, Quinn also announced that she and the council would urge the city's Economic Development Corporation to begin a «pilot program» that would make certain development projects open only to developers who agreed that their tenants would also pay their workers the higher wage.
The bill would force developers who receive subsidies from the City's Economic Development Corporation and Industrial Development Agency to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour — significantly higher than minimum wage.
... Developers who so happen to be Cuomo donors and recipients of tax breaks and copious state money for similar signature economic development projects are also at the center of federal criminal cases against two former aides to the... (read more)
The promising process already has caught the eye of economic developers, who are helping scale up the effort.
In 2011, in response to both economic and competitive conditions, project developers rushed wind projects to market, sparking purchases from cash - strapped buyers who might normally have gravitated to pricier forest - carbon projects.