Subsidy Alert: December 2011
Proposed projects: Fresh Direct, LLC and U.T.F. Trucking Inc., and Fuertes Gun Hill Road LLC on behalf of East Gun Hill Road Food LLC
To learn how the Board of Directors voted on these projects, see the agency "board books" here.
Thanks to increased transparency measures being phased in at the IDA, all current project applications and cost/benefit analyses will be made available to the public twelve calendar days before the hearing. For the December hearing, copies of project materials will be posted on the website of the New York City Industrial Development Agency and on the GJNY website when they are available. If you need a hard copy of the materials or plan to make a statement at the hearing, please contact Frances Tufano at ftufano@nycedc.com or call 212-312-3598.
Also, thanks to improved transparency efforts at the IDA, public hearings and board meetings are now available as streaming audiocasts for three days following each meeting. Audiocasts are found on the IDA Public Hearing page of the EDC website.
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