Empire State Future depends on contributions from businesses and individuals like you to continue our smart growth advocacy.
Started in 2012, The Panel of Business Interests is your organization’s opportunity to showcase your support for smart growth in New York State. The businesses that have already pledged their support, both large and small, know that New York can do more to maintain and improve the livability and economies of our cities, villages and towns.
To learn more or to join, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (518) 427-5954
Empire State Future’s Panel of Business Interests:

AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government.

A nationally recognized, award-winning land use, community planning and design firm. Founded in 1994 by John J. Behan, AICP, the firm’s professionals are dedicated to building strong client partnerships and identifying ways in which residents, businesses, public agencies, and non-profit organizations can successfully plan the future of their communities.

HUNT is a 125-person full-service consulting and design firm providing surveying, engineering, and architectural services to educational, municipal, governmental, and industrial/commercial clients throughout New York and Pennsylvania.

Sam Schwartz Engineering (SSE) is a leading traffic and transportation planning and engineering firm. Through technical expertise, creative visioning and consensus-building, SSE solves highly complex traffic and transportation challenges for government, private-sector, not-for-profit and community clients all over the world.

Saratoga Associates is a multi-disciplinary professional firm with four decades of experience in providing landscape architectural, architectural, planning, and engineering services throughout the Northeast.

Thalle Industries is an environmentally responsible supplier of high quality virgin and recycled aggregate, asphalt products and brownfield fill for the construction industry.