Chris Ward Tapped as Executive Vice President of Dragados
Chris Ward, the former New York head of the Port Authority, is stepping into a new role, as an executive vice president of the large international construction company Dragados.
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Here’s What Eminent Domain Looks Like, Atlantic Yards Version
The Paterson administration files in court to take properties in the way of the planned Nets arena. Holdouts Read More
State Consultant: Ratner’s Assumptions at Atlantic Yards ‘Moderately Aggressive’
For its Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, developer Forest City Ratner has planned construction of its 6,430 apartments based on a set of relatively aggressive assumptions, a state-commissioned report found.
The report—which was not expected to be negative given that it was commissioned by the agency sponsoring the project—looked at Forest City’s planned numbers on Read More
State Finally Fills Top Development Job With Former El Diario Owner
After an odyssey of a search process, the state’s top development agency has finally filled a top position, with the state on Tuesday announcing that Peter Davidson, former owner of El Diario/La Prensa and chairman of the non-profit JM Kaplan Fund, will be the Empire State Development Corporation’s new executive director.
Mr. Davidson, who founded a media Read More
ESDC Finally Fills Top Post With Former El Diario Owner
Former El Diario owner to be executive director of state development Read More
Obama Picks Up Paterson’s Former Economic Development Chief Lago
Apparently, President Obama is still welcoming résumés with “Paterson administration” on them.
Marisa Lago, the CEO of the state’s economic development agency, who quit amid frustrations, has been nominated for a high position in the Treasury Department, as the Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development.
The move, which was announced by the Obama administration Thursday, Read More
Obama Picks Up Paterson’s Former Economic Development Chief Lago
Apparently, President Obama is still welcoming résumés with “Paterson administration” on them.
Marisa Lago, the CEO of the state’s economic development agency, who quit amid frustrations, has been nominated for a high position in the Treasury Department, as the assistant secretary for International Markets and Development.
Once Again, State Approves Atlantic Yards; City May Pay Ratner for Infrastructure Work
Bruce Ratner today got to check off another box on his Atlantic Yards “To-Do Before the New Year” list.
The state’s development agency Thursday morning approved Mr. Ratner’s revised plan for his $4.9 billion Brooklyn project, giving New York's assent to the planned Nets arena as well as the surrounding 15 apartment towers nearly three Read More
Another Legal Challenge Means New Uncertainty on Atlantic Yards
New York’s highest court has agreed to hear an eminent domain case over the Atlantic Yards project proposed for Downton Brooklyn, a move that infuses new uncertainty into the planned $4.9 billion development.
The decision by the Court of Appeals was not expected by the project’s developer—Bruce Ratner and his Forest City Ratner—at least based Read More
Wilmers Exits ESDC as State Development Agency Turmoil Continues
Bob Wilmers follows CEO Marisa Lago out the door at state's main development agency. But does it Read More
Marisa Lago, Paterson’s Development Chief, Quits
Marisa Lago, the state’s top economic development official since August 2008, is resigning from her post, according to multiple people informed of the decision, adding to a growing number of top aides to leave the Paterson administration.
As CEO of the Empire State Development Corporation, her departure adds to the turmoil at an agency that has Read More
The ESDC Isn’t What It Used to Be
In February, eight months after M&T Bank chief executive Bob Wilmers was installed as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, the state’s main economic development agency, a new organizational structure was announced in a staff memo.
It shifted lines of command: Second from the top in a hierarchical chart, apparently overseeing the agency’s high-profile downstate Read More
The ESDC Isn’t What It Used to Be
In February, eight months after M&T Bank chief executive Bob Wilmers was installed as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, the state’s main economic development agency, a new organizational structure was announced in a staff memo. It shifted lines of command: Second from the top in a hierarchical chart, apparently overseeing the agency’s high-profile Read More
WTF, ESDC? Recession Twists State’s Economic Development Arm
In February, eight months after M&T Bank chief executive Bob Wilmers was installed as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, the state’s main economic development agency, a new organizational structure was announced in a staff memo.
It shifted lines of command: Second from the top in a hierarchical chart, apparently overseeing the agency’s high-profile Read More
Upstate Wins in the NYS Development Shuffle
It's been a almost a year now since a newly crowned Governor Paterson -- speaking to a handful of reporters tailing him after a Sunday speaking engagement -- casually mentioned that he would reorganize the state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, abolishing the controversial upstate-downstate split among its leaders.
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