WNED, By Mike Desmond, February 22, 2012. Local protesters say dozens of jobs were shipped from Tonawanda to Rochester with the closing of a local warehouse. Tuesday, the group followed the jobs to protest subsidies for that new warehouse.
YNN, By Casey J. Bortnick, February 21, 2012. Offering tax breaks and incentives to draw a company in is a common practice by county industrial development agencies all across the state. These deals...are directly connected to jobs growth. "Are we getting our monies worth?" asked Allison Duwe of the Coalition for Economic Justice. “That answer is no."
Democrat and Chronicle, By Matthew Daneman February 21, 2012. A group of protesters from western New York labor and social justice groups attended COMIDA’s monthly meeting Tuesday in downtown Rochester, pointing to the Ward’s Natural Science Esablishment LLC tax breaks as emblemic of a dysfunctional Industrial Development Agency system in New York and asking that the COMIDA board rescind the breaks.
Rochester Business Journal, Thomas Adams,February 21, 2012. The consolidation of three Maximus Inc. offices into space at 3750 Monroe Ave. in Pittsford will bring a community benefit of $19.2 million, officials said Tuesday. Tuesday’s meeting also included several speakers who asked COMIDA to review and terminate incentive agreements for VWR International LLC as it shuts down operations in Tonawanda, Erie County, and moves them to offices in Henrietta.
Buffalo News, By David Robinson, February 19, 2012. After several years of handing out tax break after tax break to stores, restaurants, hotels and urgent care centers –all almost exclusively local projects that promised little in the way of job growth or increased wealth for the region –local IDAs are coming under greater scrutiny from politicians in a position to do something about it.