$17M industrial sector boost.Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has created the Mayor's Office of Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses to support New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's industrial sector. Carl Hum, formerly the Chief of Staff and Special Counsel at the Department of Small Business Services, was appointed to direct the new Office. The Office will manage the creation of new Industrial Business Zones (IBZs), in addition to carrying out a number of initiatives to assist the manufacturing sector such as relocation tax credits, enhanced sanitation services and employee training programs. The City will invest about $17 million through 2009, and the proposed tax incentives are projected to cost the City about $9 million over the same time period if approved by the State Legislature. As part of the new citywide industrial policy, the City will designate specific boundaries for IBZs, which will replace outdated In-Place Industrial Parks, based on existing land uses, the industrial character of the neighborhood, traffic patterns and Empire Zone boundaries. The Mayor also announced that the Administration is committed to not rezone re·zone tr.v. re·zoned, re·zon·ing, re·zones To change the zoning classification of (a neighborhood or property, for example). re IBZs for residential use. To date, the City has identified the following neighborhoods for IBZs: Bathgate, East New York, Eastchester, Flatlands
Flatlands is a type of terrain similar to savanna and grassland. , Hunts Point, Jamaica, JFK Industrial Corridor, Long Island City, North Brooklyn, Port Morris, Southwest Brooklyn including Sunset Park and parts of adjacent industrial areas in Red Hook and Gowanus, Steinway, West Maspeth and Zerega. "By making an ironclad ironclad, mid-19th-century wooden warship protected from gunfire by iron armor. The success of the ironclad when first employed by the French in the Crimean War sparked a naval armor and armaments race between France and Great Britain. commitment to maintain manufacturing zoning in key industrial areas and not permit residential use, we are responding directly to the concerns of many business owners who have articulated the need to make the City's zoning policies in industrial areas more predictable," said City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden. "We will plan comprehensively for these key industrial areas to make them stronger and more competitive." The City is also working to create a one-time tax credit for industrial companies relocating within New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. to an IBZ IBZ Ibiza, Spain - Ibiza (Airport Code) or to the Brooklyn Navy Yard The United States Navy Yard, New York - better known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard or the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY) - is located 1.7 miles northeast of the Battery on the Brooklyn side of the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the East River . |
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