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Business Report: Garden State Growth Zones Aim to Lift New Jersey’s Cities

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The new law builds on Christie’s commitment to revitalizing New Jersey’s cities. It places extra emphasis on spurring development and private-sector job growth in new Garden State Growth Zones (GSGZ) identified in the legislation as the four lowest median family income cities in the state: Camden, Trenton, Passaic and Paterson.

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After Sandy: New Report Looks At Mitigating Climate Change Through Land Use

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As a result, we are seeing different approaches to development in the 21st century,” said Joseph Azrack, managing partner at Apollo Global Real Estate in New York City. Conduct a cost/benefit analysis of the defined land use typologies to identify less vulnerable zones for long-term planning and public spending.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains. If there’s a market for it” is the operative term, however, because office districts in major cities are under stress as they’ve emptied out in the wake of the pandemic, and many building owners are defaulting on loans, according to The New York Times.

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Living in a Tiny House During the Pandemic

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Jacques said she bought her teenage daughter noise canceling headphones at the outset of the pandemic so she could “zone out from the household stuff that’s going on.”. Even tiny house dwellers who have lost sources of income feel relatively secure. We have a military pension and so we’re living on a fixed income now.

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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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SPECIAL REPORT: Steadfast And Strong In The Wake Of Superstorm Sandy

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The Christie Administration will dedicate more than half of this funding for low-to-moderate-income households, in accordance with HUD guidelines. billion allocated to New York. The programs will be offered outside New York City (NYC will administer similar programs to meet the same needs its own CDBG-DR allocation of $1.7

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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START-UP NY (which stands for SUNY Tax-free Areas to Revitalize and Transform Upstate NY) is an initiative to turn SUNY campuses and other university communities across the state into tax-free communities for new and expanded businesses. In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, businesses must be start-ups or high-tech companies.

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