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I’m the President of Fast Trek Steel. We have been in business in upstate for the last decade, employing just over 100 workers.…

Suffolk County IDA, Long Island In 2005, OSI bought a 60,000-square-foot building in Melville for $11.5 million, and also added $8.5 million in renovations.…

Hempstead IDA, Long Island In March 2010, the Town of Hempstead’s IDA approved a 10-year tax break to encourage a developer to buy one of Hempstead Village’s biggest apartment complexes.…

Montgomery County IDA, Capital District Beech-Nut, the baby food company, received $104.5 million in tax exemptions in 2008 from state and local tax subsidy programs, including the Montgomery County IDA.…

Ontario County IDA, Finger Lakes For years, the Ontario County IDA ignored payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreements at the Canandaigua Air Center. Although the IDA began operating the airport and took it off the tax rolls in 1995, the private buildings on the property were supposed to be paying PILOTs to offset the tax revenue lost to school districts and municipalities.…

Chemung County IDA, Southern Tier In summer 2009, CVS Pharmacy broke ground on a regional distribution center in Chemung County, possibly the largest development project underway in upstate New York.…

I work in the City of Syracuse as a bus driver. I work hard everyday to make sure that students with special needs get where they need to go safely.…

I am an owner of Talking Leaves Books, an independent, co-op bookstore in Buffalo. We’ve always sought be a community center and a community resource where diverse and alternative populations can access books that most other stores don’t stock.…

In fall 2009, the city's Capital Resource Corporation, a subsidiary of the Industrial Development Agency, announced it was awarding the developers $20 million in tax-exempt Recovery Zone Facility Bonds, authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in order to jump-start the retail and housing part of the project. The city estimates that it will create 328 construction jobs and 108 full-time equivalent permanent jobs. However, there are no guarantees taxpayer money will create decent, living wage jobs for residents or displaced workers. The permanent jobs will be primarily part-time, low-wage retail jobs, and will actually represent a net loss of jobs in Albee Square.

Initiated in 2008, the Green Collar Jobs Roundtable brought together 170 green employers, unions, workforce development providers and environmental justice organizations to develop a Green Collar Jobs Roadmap, a comprehensive policy proposal for jumpstarting New York’s green economy.