Report: Nassau IDA kept housing, film rolling in 2020
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new economic development report puts a positive spin on a tough year for Nassau County. Pandemic-plagued 2020 was a difficult year everywhere, of course –…
Economic Development
Law-less LIA looks within for presidential successor
By GREGORY ZELLER // An old friend has been named the Long Island Association’s new leader. Matthew Cohen, a former government relations executive director for the Long Island Power Authority…
Downtown breakdown details imbalance, path forward
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
Developer’s tax deal brings Amazon to Woodmere
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the help of another lucrative local-government economic-incentives package, Amazon has staked its latest big claim on Long Island. Riding the wave a $16 million tax-abatement…
War drums beat again as Amazon targets Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // Attempts to locate Amazon’s ballyhooed “HQ2” second headquarters in Long Island City – on paper, an unparalleled boon for the entire region, particularly Nassau and Suffolk…
CEBIP marks 10 years with refined skills, fresh blood
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s hard to say who’s been more successful – the clients of the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, or CEBIP itself. Either way, Stony Brook University’s…
Hofstra plays past pandemic with new Innovation Prize
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University’s most ambitious business-acceleration effort has added a hefty prize for creative pandemic-related thinking. Along with partners Northwell Health, New York City-based media/tech firm Digital…
‘Harvestable energy’ fuels second CEBIP graduate
By GREGORY ZELLER // A waste-not biotech with a true sense of sustainability has become the second company to graduate from the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, despite logistical challenges…
Busy pharma manufacturer to expand, again, in Suffolk
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency incentives package will spark the $15 million renovation of a vacant Hauppauge property. The IDA has issued preliminary approval of…
Planes, trains, autos: Wheels up on LIMA ‘ground hub’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A key component of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council’s strategic investment has taken flight – actually, broken ground – at Long Island MacArthur Airport….
PILOT lands lights, cameras, action in Port Washington
By GREGORY ZELLER // Spoiler alert: Hollywood is coming soon to a Long Island county near you. Actually, pandemics notwithstanding, television and movie production is already thriving on the Island…
Study: In pandemic’s wake, expect LI land-use changes
By GREGORY ZELLER // When the pandemic is finally over, expect a drastically different Long Island land-use landscape. So predicts the Long Island Regional Planning Council, which this week announced…
Suffolk IDA signs off on Spectronics Corp. move
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of President Trump’s most vocal corporate-sector critics will keep his international manufacturing business on Long Island, with help from the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency….
Report links LI pandemic recovery to racial equality
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new socioeconomic study ties Long Island’s post-pandemic economic recovery inexorably to race. Sensing an “unprecedented opportunity” in the confluence of the global COVID-19 pandemic and…
As 1-800-Flowers leaves, IDA fertilizes wilted site
By GREGORY ZELLER // With iconic 1-800-Flowers.com transplanting to Jericho Plaza, its current/soon-to-be former Carle Place home is being reseeded by the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. The IDA on…