While highways, infrastructure, and transit aid have received the most focus in news stories covering the $787 Billion national economic recovery bill passed into law recently, Syracuse and Onondaga County will soon be getting more than $10 million for housing […]
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Executive Director’s Blog
Winning the War: A Smart State Stimulus Effort By Peter B. Fleischer In response to the passage of the Federal Economic Recovery and Re-investment Act the Paterson Administration has set up a “War Room” to coordinate, prioritize, and accelerate stimulus […]
continue readingTimes Union Op-Ed: New York’s Path to Recovery
By Peter B. Fleischer First published: Friday, February 20, 2009 in the Albany Times-Union. Much has been written about the economic crisis facing upstate New York. One has to hope that the recently signed Federal Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act […]
continue readingLeague of Women Voters joins ESF coalition
The League of Women Voters of New York State has joined the Empire State Future coalition, becoming the 25th organization to come together in support of our Smart Growth agenda for the Empire State. Since 1920 the League has operated […]
continue readingBatavia’s local governments could become the first cit…
Leading the way in the emerging effort to improve local government modernization and efficiency, the City and Town of Batavia in Genesee County are well on their way to a potential merger that would be what observers have described as […]
continue readingWNY officials say college spending distorts state stimulus l…
Western New York officials say many of their priority local projects will not qualify for Federal economic stimulus funding (a new Peace Bridge, removal of the Skyway, and others) because they can’t be started within 180 days — a key […]
continue readingIs the rush to pick economic stimulus projects trumping Smar…
Observers listening to the discussion at a recent Albany meeting of the Governor’s Smart Growth Cabinet emerged with some concern that the economic development folks were starting to gain the upper hand relative to the Smart Growthers within the group. Calls […]
continue readingUnintended consequences of Empire Zone reform may kill a new…
When Onondaga County officials sent an application to Albany in October requesting inclusion of the former Rollway Bearings building into an existing Empire Zone, there were high hopes of landing an attractive new manufacturing facility that would employ up to […]
continue readingThe Executive Director’s Blog – January 2009
by Peter B. Fleischer Recent proposals for a super-large multi-hundred billion dollar Federal stimulus for infrastructure, with much of the funds being sent to the states, brings to mind the old saying “Be careful what you ask for, you may […]
continue readingPanel wants new development near mass transit
In an effort to reduce sprawl, pollution, traffic congestion, and energy consumption, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority commission says two-thirds of all residential and New York City-area commercial development between now and 2030 should be located within walking distance of a […]
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