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Entire living rooms become balconies in a new Lower East Side mixed-used development

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A four-story tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was recently renovated and turned into a nine-story mixed-use development. In New York City, however, balconies can be problematic as zoning requirements can be difficult to work with and valuable square footage used for a balcony is unusable during the winter months.

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Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

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Since then we’ve built and/or renovated all of the American Girl Place stores across the country, including the brand’s recently reimagined New York City location at 75 Rockefeller Plaza. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

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State Focus: New York – Accelerating Biotech Innovation In The Empire State

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This year, Innovate NY funding has been deployed to support four biotech companies expand operations in New York City. The Innovate NY program has partnered with leading life sciences investment fund, the Partnership Fund for New York City, to further advance an emerging biotechnology cluster. Celmatix Inc.,

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LOCATION FOCUS: United It Stands

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New York State’s 54,556 square mile geography is divided into 10 economic regions (according to Empire State Development)—Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson, Capital District, New York City and Long Island.

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Location Focus: New York – The Empire State Leverages Its Strengths

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The program transforms State University of New York (SUNY) campuses, private colleges and universities, and university communities across the state into tax-free zones for new and expanding businesses. ?Business Just next door to Long Island MacArthur Airport is Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) #52.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: More Than Just Production And Plating

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million renovation/expansion project will create 90 jobs. million project to acquire and renovate the 200,000-square-foot building will create 63 jobs. The most recent acquisition was the purchase of the former BirdsEye plant in the City of Fulton by 607 Phillips St. Teti Bakery USA, Inc., Oswego County Industrial Park.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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But viewed through the lens of smart urbanism, he says, “it’s the best thing that can happen to American cities in the long term. Zoned business districts cease to function after 6 p.m.” Eliminating single-use zoning so people can live throughout the city, where all of its districts thrive at all times, is a “net positive,” he says.