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TransCentral

NYS Transcentral Post June 18, 2014

Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured      Obama Transportation Bill Introduced in House  The Hill New York NYPD […]

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Smart Growth Roundup (18 June 2014)

Local/Regional Big changes coming to East New York (Brooklyn) Grassroots Port Development Effort Forms Charlotte Strong (Rochester) Who needs Manhattan? Queens hotels boom Land bank can bridge economic, community development (Broome County) Binghamton tries to combat vacant properties How much […]

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TransCentral

NYS Transcentral Post June 11, 2014

Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured      House Approves Transportation, Housing Measure as Action on Spending Bills Heats […]

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TransCentral

NYS Transcentral Post June 4, 2014

Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured      House to Use Post Office Cuts to Fund Highway Bill The […]

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New York’s highest court to hear appeal on municipal f…

The New York State Court of Appeals will hear the oil and gas industry’s appeal of municipal decisions in New York to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The local communities enacting these bans claim their “home rule” authority trumps […]

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McMansions strike back–new U.S. housing bigger than ever

The Washington Post revealed this week that new houses in the U.S. are bigger than ever.  The look is only at new construction, and showed that the average new house in America is over 2,300 square feet. Amazingly, new abodes […]

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Little Falls: Cascading Results-A great example of how smal…

Little Falls, New York — a city of 5,000 people located 70 miles west of Albany — might have died.  This formerly robust industrial city straddles the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal at the site of a picturesque 40 […]

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Old infrastructure harms new housing initiative in NYC

It is no secret that the infrastructure in New York City, and the rest of the state, continues to decay while funding struggles to keep up. Denise Richardson, Managing Director of the General Contractors Association of New York recently shared […]

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Smart Growth Roundup (3 June 2014)

Storm projects chosen for New York, New Jersey… Thousands of comments have been submitted in response to the state’s draft energy plan…. And a partnership forms to develop a casino near Binghamton in this weeks SGR! Local Midtown Rising Development […]

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