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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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 […]
continue readingNew 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 […]
continue readingMcMansions 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 […]
continue readingOld 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 […]
continue readingSmart 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 […]
continue readingRestoring Bus Service to Rural Communities
As the demand for public transportation has continued to increase, transit services, particularly to rural communities, has been unable to keep up without the funds to match. A video recently released by AARP shows a successful public-private partnership in Washington State […]
continue reading2012 Census of Agriculture County Profiles Available
[Photo: The Seven Bridges Farm in Lima, NY (Photo courtesy of sevenbridgesfarm.com)] The Cornell Cooperative Extensive recently shared its findings in Oneida County based on data from the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Here are their findings: The Census shows an […]
continue readingNYS Transcentral Post May 28, 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 The Future of Evacuations in the Climate Change Era CityLab New […]
continue readingCNU 22: Promoting sustainable communities
Today, The Buffalo News has highlighted the 22nd Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU 22) event in Buffalo next week (June 4-7). This event brings people from different disciplines to discuss the best approaches to land use and development. And […]
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