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September 2015
Bronx County
Kings County
New York County
Box, the West Coast file-sharing company, announced that it will open a New York City office to serve new and existing customers in the metro region. The 13,000-square-foot office will open in the fall and house 75 employees by next year.
NewsCred, one of the earliest startups to hop on the content marketing bandwagon, has raised $42 million in a Series D investment round that will let the company "aggressively" build its global operations. The company, founded in 2008, has now raised a total of $88.8 million. NewsCred has doubled its customer base in the past year and tripled its "annual recurring revenue." Those customers include Barclays, Nasdaq, Pepsi and Toyota, and span 70 global markets. NewsCred currently has 200 employees worldwide, with 130 of them in Manhattan. It has offices in seven locations, including London and Dhaka, Bangladesh. It plans on approximately doubling global head count over the next year, with the goal of having 300 to 400 employees by the end of 2016. "Every single department is hiring," a spokeswoman said. The company recently took over an additional floor at its 386 Park Ave. South headquarters.
Queens County
Richmond County
The future of the New York Wheel hinges on the approval of changes to plans for the Staten Island mega project. So while North Shore community members raised concerns over the proposed modifications at a City Planning Commission meeting the project could be scrapped entirely unless new plans are authorized. "If this isn't approved," New York Wheel CEO Rich Marin said after the meeting, "the project would be over with." The New York Wheel re-entered the public review process after getting the green light from the City Planning Commission and the City Council back in 2013. Developers are proposing several modifications to the plans because of engineering issues and changes to city code. The enclosed parking garage will increase from three to four stories, maintaining the 950 spaces but with more self-park spots. While North Shore locals don't want so many spaces, Staten Islanders living farther south do. The observation wheel's Terminal Building will be about a quarter smaller than originally planned to accommodate the changes. New plans will also shrink and relocate the public playground, eliminate a reflection pool at the base of the observation wheel and remove wind turbines and solar panels intended for the site.
August 2015
Bronx County
Baldor Specialty Foods, which distributes to restaurants, hotels and other facilities, will expand its facility by about 100,000 square feet at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, a city-owned industrial park in the Bronx. The $20 million initiative is entirely funded by the company, which expects to add about 350 jobs, in manufacturing, office work and trucking, as a result of the expansion over the next eight years. Baldor's current distribution center occupies about 193,000 square feet at Hunts Point.
Kings County
Koppers Specialty Chocolate Company has a new home - a 50,000 s/f lease for at Liberty View Plaza at 850 3rd Avenue in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn, NY. Relocating from their 30,000 s/f former home in Greenwich Village, the chocolatier will continue making gourmet chocolates and specialty confections in New York City and will nearly double their workforce in this relocation and expansion. Empire State Development (ESD) will provide the company with up to $556,000 in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Program Tax Credits. The company has agreed to create at least 27 new full-time jobs over the next five years, and keep them through at least 2025. Prior to making the decision to remain in New York, Koppers considered relocating to Carlstadt, NJ among other places.
A startup for used furniture has found a spot for its New York operations. San Francisco-based Move Loot, which picks up and sells used furniture on its website, recently signed a deal for a 20,000-square-foot warehouse at 57 Caton Place, between East Eighth Street and Coney Island Avenue, in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Move Loot launched operations in New York with a warehouse in New Jersey, which was temporary before the company found its new, permanent location. The company plans to eventually employ about 100 staffers in the New York area. Move Loot aims to eliminate the hassle of reselling goods via sites like Craigslist.
New York County
New York City is getting a new medical school in Harlem. The CUNY School of Medicine will be located on the City College campus near 138th Street and will partner with the Bronx-based St. Barnabas Health System. The school was accredited following an effort by leaders at City College's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education interested in providing a low-cost option for CUNY students to become physicians. Sophie Davis offers a seven-year degree program that includes three years of undergraduate education and two years of medical school, but students previously had to finish up at schools outside the CUNY system. The first class of 70 students will start in fall 2016.
Tictail, an e-commerce startup aspiring to be an online megamall for independent retailers, has raised $22 million in a Series B round that will help the Swedish transplant double its New York City staff over the next seven to eight months. The cash will help the company, which has retailers from 140 countries using its platform, continue its global growth and develop its mobile technology. Early last year, the company moved its headquarters to New York from Stockholm to focus on the U.S. market, where it saw the biggest opportunity for growth. Last fall, it launched Tictail Marketplace, which makes all 85,000 stores in its community accessible via a mobile app. The cmpany expects to start hiring product developers in New York, while also adding to its marketing team as it expects to boost the headcount here to 30 in the coming months.
Restoration Hardware is getting into the lodging business. The upscale home-furnishings company is planning to open a boutique hotel and restaurant around the corner from its upcoming flagship store in the meatpacking district. The company has leased all of 55 Gansevoort St., a 25,000-square-foot building near the 70,000-square-foot space it leased last year for its flagship store at 9-19 Ninth Ave late last year. The low-rise building there is in the process of being redeveloped by it's owners.
Lowe's new Chelsea store, located on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 19th Street, is less than five blocks from larger competitor Home Depot, which landed in Manhattan nearly a decade ago. The shop, which opens in September, will be the second Lowe's to come to the borough this summer. The big-box retailer has shrunk down its 145,000-square-foot stores to about 30,000 square feet, trimmed its on-site inventory, revamped its merchandising for city shoppers and beefed up its in-store digital services. Lowe's first new Manhattan location, opening in the Upper West Side in August, has new digital displays that allow customers to easily browse Lowe's inventory and buy in-store.
Sam Chang plans to build a 25-story, 175-key hotel on a Garment District development site where he began evicting manufacturing tenants earlier this year. The veteran hotelier filed a permit application to build a nearly 60,000-square-foot hotel at 338 West 39th Street, near Ninth Avenue. He bought the 12-story factory building on the site in January for $22.4 million, records show. The application lists Barone Management, developer of the Dream Hotel in Long Island City, as a partner. Chang and Barone, headed by Scott Barone, have partnered on several projects in the past. Roughly 30 hotels have popped up in the Garment District over the past decade as manufacturing businesses have left the area, and possibly no other developer has cashed in more on the demand for budget-rate rooms than Chang's Great Neck-based McSam Hotel Group. He currently has a handful of sites under development, including a 35-story Holiday Inn at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 39th Street, a 252-room hotel at 326 West 37th Street and a 406-key project at 334 West 36th Street, a site he bought for $50.8 million.
KCG Holdings, is a trading firm created in 2013 by the merger of Knight Capital Group Inc., which had offices in Jersey City, and Getco LLC, which was in Manhattan. KCG wanted to consolidate its bistate operations and chose 300 Vesey St. in Battery Park City. To help that deal happen, New York State's Empire State Development agency offered up to $15 million in tax credits if KCG creates 615 jobs in New York and maintains them through 2025.
Queens County
Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. may be adding a lot more shelf space in New York City. The Quincy, Mass.-based chain announced that it is willing to pay $146 million to buy 25 stores from the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Of the 25 locations, which include Waldbaum's, Pathmark and namesake A&P brands, 11 are based in the city. Six are in Queens, two are in Brooklyn, two are in the Bronx and one is on Staten Island. The 395-store chain currently has a very small presence in the city. It has only five locations here, in Brooklyn and Queens. The A&P outposts will convert to the Stop & Shop brand when the transaction is finalized, provided no higher bids are made as part of an auction from A&P's bankruptcy filing. A&P, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection has a total of 38 local locations in the five boroughs.
Jamaica is getting a Burlington Coat Factory. Burlington will have 70,000 square feet of the 150,000-square-foot retail redevelopment now planned for three buildings along the major shopping area of Jamaica Avenue in Queens between Union Hall Boulevard and 160th Street. Developer United American Land will integrate the landmarked 161-02 Jamaica Ave. with 160-16 Jamaica, which will be shortened from nine stories to four stories and be given a new façade; and 160-08 Jamaica, which will retain its existing façade. All three buildings will be interconnected and have seamless floor plates. Burlington will have half of the second floor and the entire third and fourth floors of the four-story project. The retail tenants should be open for business during the spring of 2017.
Richmond County
July 2015
Bronx County
Silvercup Studios, a large NYC-based film production company, is moving forward with a third facility in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx. The planned 120,000-square-foot production facility would help the company expand and meet growing demand. Silvercup, which bought the property from Simone Development Cos. for $15 million, is investing $20 million to transform it into four production studios. The planned facility will have the capacity to service two television productions simultaneously over the year, potentially generating an average of 250 full-time positions for each production.
Kings County
Trader Joe's is coming to Williamsburg. The California-based grocery chain, which opened its first New York outpost near Union Square in 2006, has signed a lease to open an 18,000-square-foot store in a building that will be constructed at 206 Kent Ave., between North Third Street and Metropolitan Avenue. The store will be Trader Joe's second location in Brooklyn. It's first opened on Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill in 2008.
Greystone & Co. ditched its plans to convert the Brooklyn Lyceum to residential use and will instead lease the entire building to Blink Fitness. Blink signed a deal to take the entire 16,700-square-foot space for 15 years. Greystone transferred 23,000 square feet of air rights from the Lyceum property to the lot next door, where it will be constructing a 12-story apartment building. Earlier this year, Blink Fitness took 20,500 square feet in 234-240 East 54th Street.
New York County
H&M is opening another of its stores for the higher-end brand Cos in Midtown Manhattan. The retailer is taking a portion of the 24,000-square-foot space at 505 Fifth Ave., on the northeast corner of East 42nd Street. The space has 7,500 square feet on the ground floor, 5,300 in the basement and 11,700 on the second floor. This will be the first midtown location for Cos, which opened its first New York store on Spring Street last year. H&M has been strengthening its presence in New York over the past two years with stores across the entire price spectrum, including the main cut-price H&M brand another one of its brands - & Other Stories – which opened in Downtown Manhattan last October.
Yotpo is the latest Israeli company to anchor its North American sales operations in New York. Founded in 2011, the Tel Aviv-based e-commerce service provider announced it has closed a $15 million fundraising round, bringing its funding total to $30 million. Yotpo also officially unveiled its New York office which currently houses a staff or 14 – to be tripled by the end of the year.
Pressed Juicery, which has roughly a dozen locations in Equinox gyms in the New York area, will open its first stand-alone store at Turnstyle, the underground shopping concourse at Columbus Circle Station. Five-year-old Pressed, which started out selling juice out of a truck, has 44 current and planned locations in California and two in Las Vegas. It joins two other organic brands, Ellary's Greens and Blossom du Jour, at Turnstyle, which is set to open later this year. Construction of the storefronts will begin this summer.
Ralph Lauren is expanding its Chelsea office to give itself and subsidiary Club Monaco room to grow. The company will expand its office and give Club Monaco, which has its global headquarters at the 20-story building, more space. The details of which company will occupy what portions of the new space are still being worked out, sources familiar with the deal said. In total, Ralph Lauren and Club Monaco will occupy about 100,000 square feet in the 2.3 million-square-foot building.
Nestle Skin Health inked a 16-year lease for 30,400 square feet at the Alexandria Center for Life Science in Kips Bay. The Swiss skincare company announced it will use the space at 450 East 29th Street, its first New York location, as an "innovation hub" for research, development and education. The company received a tax break from the Empire State Development Corporation. The 700,000-square foot complex already houses another Swiss company, pharmaceutical giant Roche, which in 2012 signed an 11-year lease.
The New York City Poilce Department plans to hire nearly 1,300 new police officers as part of its $78.5 billion budget agreement. The cost of the new hiring initiative is estimated to be approximately $170 million, which will be offset by $70 million in savings, largely by creating a cap on department overtime. About 300 of the new officers will be assigned to counterterrorism. Additionally, the budget authorizes the hiring of 400 administrative aides to take over desk jobs currently filled by police officers.
Queens County
Richmond County
Sonic Drive-In is opening in Richmond Valley in late August. "We need 100 to 150 people — we do volume," said Anthony Cirillo, a co-owner of the Staten Island outfit, soon to be New York City's first Sonic Drive-In. Positions at the Staten Island Sonic include full- and part-time work as managers, assistant managers, cooks, crew members and car hops, the latter who will deliver food to cars on roller skates.
June 2015
Bronx County
The Bronx Brewery, a South Bronx-based brewery founded in 2011, announced a strategic partnership with privately held holding company Tenth Avenue Holdings, which will provide guidance and funding to help grow the business. The Bronx Brewery opened a facility in August 2014 in a former ironworks factory in the Port Morris neighborhood and produced roughly 6,000 barrels in 2014. In response to growing demand, the company expects to produce 10,000 barrels in 2015. The latest addition of capital will allow him to hire additional employees in the Bronx, including two new brewers, and to purchase additional brewing equipment to help ramp up production. The Bronx Brewery will also increase distribution in order to access markets outside of New York City, where most of the brewery's current sales come from. The venue is also popular for hosting sporting and fundraising events and has a large backyard beer garden, which reopened on May 2 for the season.
Kings County
Yet another hotel is coming to Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. The plans state that the developer will break ground on a 140-room hotel by September of this year with the preliminary opening date in the fall of 2017. In addition to the hotel, the site could support a 400,000-square-foot office building.
Adidas will open a Brooklyn design studio in North Williamsburg. The German sports apparel and footwear maker will take 20,000 square feet in the neighborhood, on the second floor of the building that currently houses the Brooklyn Brewery. Although precise dates haven't been announced, the studio will open sometime in the next 12 months.
Forever 21, one of the most popular fast-fashion retailers, has signed a lease for 40,000 square feet in Downtown Brooklyn. The company is expected to open its newest New York store by the end of this year. Today, there are nine other Forever 21 locations throughout the five boroughs. Other tenants at the property include Planet Fitness, Raymour & Flanigan, Express,Swarovski, Chase Bank and IHOP. The upper three floors of the building are Long Island University dorms.
New York County
Furniture giant Raymour & Flanigan has taken the last major space at 100 W. 125th St., a future six-story Harlem retail project. Raymour & Flanigan has signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet on the second floor — joining previously signed tenants Whole Foods, American Eagle Outfitters, Burlington Coat Factory, Olive Garden and TD Bank. Planned to open in 2016, the 200,000 square-foot project brings a concentration of upmarket national chains to a single location — the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue and West 125th Street — which was previously an empty lot.
Trustpilot, a U.K. consumer rating and business experience site, is planning to further expand its New York City office from approximately 100 to nearly double that in the next 12 months. Trustpilot offers companies tiered service plans that start with free trial use of its basic customer-review software. It also works at keeping the reviews honest by devoting software and a 30-person team to detecting fake reviews that could be aimed at boosting a business's customer rating.
Zaro's Bakery plans to open two locations at the transit hub this summer. Zaro's will operate both a 400-square-foot shop and a 200-square-foot kiosk at the Fulton Center. The bakery has 11 other locations in the New York metro area. The closest outposts to lower Manhattan are at Penn Station.
Queens County
The first Apple Store for Queens will be located in the Queens Center Mall on the second floor. Signage for the new store at the Queens Center mall has appeared, according to tips from readers. This Queens store will be the largest New York Apple Store within a mall and that the opening is planned for later in 2015. Apple is expecting this store to pull in nearly as much revenue as some of its larger flagship locations in the State.
Richmond County
After years of starts and stops, developers are planning a fall groundbreaking on Lighthouse Point -- a mixed-use retail and residential development that will include a hotel in St. George. Lighthouse Point -- comprised of 400,000 square feet built on a 3-acre parcel of the historic but abandoned pier that once housed a lighthouse facility and then a Coast Guard base -- will be part of "Destination St. George," the new branding of the waterfront revitalization that also includes the New York Wheel and Empire Outlets. "We are finalizing our funding and marketing," said Elysa Goldman, director of development for Triangle Equities, Lighthouse Point developer, noting that building permits will be applied for with the city Department of Buildings this week. "We anticipate having our building permit, closing on our funding and all the pieces coming together at the end of the summer," she added. The more than $200 million project includes 65,000-square-feet of retail and office space, along with 116 luxury rentals -- 20 percent of which will be earmarked for affordable housing. The project also includes an outdoor rooftop lounge area, 300 underground parking spaces and a 180-room hotel. Work on the first phase of the project -- estimated to last 2 1/2 years from start to finish -- will include retail developments near the Bay Street side of the project, residential units and parking. The first 18 months of construction will be focused on the retail component, while the remainder of the time will be spent on building the residential units.
May 2015
Bronx County
On Feb. 27, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. issued his annual development report ranking the largest projects of the year in the Bronx by dollar value. His latest list includes the usual suspects—a raft of large residential and commercial initiatives—but also one notable outlier: Riverdale Country School. There, work will begin in June on three big construction projects, including a $25 million natatorium with a six-lane, 25-yard-long pool. Make no mistake—with 22 buildings and a total of 300,000 square feet of enclosed space sprawled over 27.5 acres on two campuses one mile apart, the school pays dividends for its immediate area and its borough. And because RCS is one of three schools of similar size in the area—the other two being Fieldston and Horace Mann—the aggregate impact is that much greater. Throw in two small local colleges, Manhattan and Mount St. Vincent, and the neighborhood has a humming private-education dynamo that officials point out is Riverdale's biggest employer. It generates jobs not just for teachers and administrators, but also bus drivers, cooks, landscapers, painters, plumbers and others.
Kings County
Macy's Inc. announced that it will open its first four bargain stores this fall, in Brooklyn and Queens, and on Long Island. Called Macy's Backstage, the stores will test the off-price concept here before rolling it out to more locations. The stores, which will each be about 30,000 square feet and staffed by 30 employees, will include unsold clearance items from full-priced stores, as well as exclusives for the outlets from fashion brands.
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is opening its first location in New York City with a store in Brooklyn. The new store will anchor a $140 million redevelopment of Brooklyn Yard's Admiral's Row that's being led by Steiner NYC. Several buildings will be knocked down and replaced with Wegmans, other stores, industrial space and parking. Steiner NYC, creator of the Navy Yard's 25-acre film studio, will develop the complex, set to open in 2017. The 74,000-square-foot store at the Navy Yard will be the company's smallest by about 25 percent. The Navy Yard selected Steiner and Wegmans above three other proposals because of the affordability of the store's offerings and its commitment to hiring locally for full-time jobs. Because of its emphasis on prepared foods, the company offered to create at least twice as many full-time jobs (200), and more total jobs (600) than any of the rivals. In its first two weeks of hiring, the store will interview exclusively from the three housing projects that border the Navy Yard. Across a large parking lot will be the supermarket, part of a larger building with 126,000 square feet of industrial space.
Gateway National Recreation Area, part of the Park Service, has signed a five-year lease with Brooklyn Night Bazaar, which has attracted thousands to its weekly food and entertainment events in Greenpoint. Starting Memorial Day weekend, the company, under the name Riis Park Beach Bazaar, will stage free outdoor concerts at Jacob Riis on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. In addition, it will offer food concessions in two of the large bays that run the length of the brick bathhouse, as well as smaller food carts on the boardwalk. Among the food vendors expected to participate are Ample Hills Creamery, the Brooklyn Star, Court Street Grocers, Wild Feast Foods, Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue and La Newyorkina.
New York County
Yodle's, a company that specializes in providing online marketing solutions to small business, is about to move into its news space near Penn Station. And as it more than doubles its office size, the online marketing company is also planning to nearly double its head count. The 10-year-old firm will add 250 hires to its current 300-person staff over the next three years, the startup announced at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 114,000-square-foot headquarters on West 34th Street. The new hires will be in all areas, but with a concentration in software and product development.
Zaro's Bakery plans to open two locations at the transit hub this summer, the local chain announced Wednesday. Zaro's will operate both a 400-square-foot shop and a 200-square-foot kiosk at the Fulton Center. The bakery has 11 other locations in the New York metro area. The closest outposts to lower Manhattan are at Penn Station.
The partners behind the Tao Group restaurant and nightclub empire — Marc Packer, Richard Wolf, Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss — are extending their hospitality to hotels. A new 23-story hotel on 414 W. 15th St. in the Meatpacking District will be the first-ever Tao-branded hotel. Rockpoint Group and Highgate Holdings have been developing the vacant lot and expect to complete it in the summer of 2016. CetraRuddy is the architectural company for the hotel that will rise to 278 feet and include a huge rooftop lounge for up to 240 people, a 23rd floor lounge for the same number, as well as another lounge and terrace on the second floor, city permits show.
Queens County
NYU Langone Medical Center plans to open a two-story, 45,000-square-foot multispecialty ambulatory care facility in Long Island City. The new location is accessible via four subway lines within two blocks and will be complete in 12 to 18 months.
Richmond County
April 2015
Bronx County
Kings County
Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola is opening a store in Brooklyn on the Dumbo waterfront. The company is taking 5,000 square feet of space at Empire Stores, a former coffee warehouse that is in the process of being converted into an office building with ground-floor retail space. The new location will be Shinola's second in the city and its first in Brooklyn. The company has a store on Franklin Street in TriBeCa. Like that location, the new one will feature a cafe operated by The Smile.
New York County
Anheuser-Busch InBev seeks to fill around 50 positions in its new marketing and sales office. This is part of an aggressive recruitment effort aimed at attracting top talent to the office, which will soon open in Chelsea on West 24th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The location will eventually house some 250 sales and marketing professionals, including many who will transfer from the brewer's U.S. headquarters in St. Louis. Plans include a beer garden on the ground floor that will be open to the public. The move marks a significant cultural change for the company, whose U.S. operations have long been run from St. Louis (where it was founded in 1852), even after Anheuser-Busch's acquisition in 2008 by InBev, which is based in São Paolo. While AB InBev will keep its U.S. headquarters in St. Louis, the U.S. "commercial strategy" office in New York is meant to provide it exposure to urban trends, according to an internal memo sent late last year when the decision was made. The move also gets marketing executives closer to key partners based here, including ad agencies, sports leagues and music and entertainment execs. And it provides for greater proximity to the brewer's global office, which opened in New York at 250 Park Ave. in 2009. The city's attractive talent pool is a key part of the relocation equation.
A new dumpling chain is opening a location on Hudson Street. Dumpling Go opened on West Third Street in Greenwich Village earlier this year and at 188 Second Avenue in the East Village earlier this month. Dumpling Go's website lists a fourth incoming location as well, coming to 350 Third Ave at 26th Street.
Queens County
The Japanese retailer Uniqlo is opening its first Queens outpost this spring at The Shops at Skyview Center. The brand — which has stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island including a flagship shop on Fifth Avenue — signed a deal on a 8,000-square-foot space and should open in the next few weeks, according to a spokeswoman for the Flushing mall. Uniqlo is known for its well-made basics and graphic T-shirts. The 700,000-square-foot mall is also home to a Nordstrom Rack, Forever 21, Restoration Hardware and Nike Clearance Store, as also has restaurants and a supermarket.
The city's first Nike Factory Store will open at The Shops at SkyView Center on April 2, according to representatives and an image with the grand opening date that was recently posted at the store's location. Nike, which is known around the world for sports footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories, will offer select products at special prices in the new store. The shoemaker signed a lease with Onex Real Estate, which owns the Flushing mall, for a 15,000-square-foot space on Level B in November
Richmond County
Applebee's, Gap and White House Black Market inked leases to spaces in Empire Outlets, a new mall that broke ground. The mall — slated to open in 2016 — announced 100,000 square-feet of new leases. The latest tenants will join H&M and Nordstrom Rack which previously took space. Other stores headed to the mall include Banana Republic Factory Store, Columbia Sportswear Company, Guess Factory Store, Wilsons Leather, G.H. Bass & Co., Lids, Obey Your Body, Innovation Luggage, Walgreens, Haagen Daz, Krispy Kreme and Nathan's Famous.
March 2015
Bronx County
The city will invest $150 million over 12 years to revitalize and fortify the Bronx's Hunts Point Market, the world's largest food distribution center, through which 60% of the city's food supply flows. City-funded infrastructure improvements had been anticipated after the market cooperative signed a new lease last year as it was being wooed by New Jersey. The money will go toward modernizing the market's buildings and infrastructure as well as opening up space for new businesses. The city is already working with the nearby Fulton Fish Market, which is the second-largest fresh-seafood market in the world, to put underutilized space to better use by making room for complementary food processing and manufacturing. The money will also be put toward parking lot repairs at the fish market, fixing long-delayed maintenance items, urgent short-term repairs at the Meat Market, and rail infrastructure along Food Center Drive. The city will also clean up a brownfield site to create a development parcel for new industrial uses, such as a food processing or manufacturing facility. The $150 million investment will be in addition to another pot of money for the market from the city and federal governments.
Kings County
Furniture and home-decor retailer Design Within Reach has signed a lease to open a 40,000-square-foot outlet store and repair facility at the Industry City complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It will also include a design studio and showroom. It is expected to be fully operational in late spring and will bring 25 jobs to the waterfront site. In addition to traditional shopping, Design Within Reach will offer design workshops and programming for home-furnishing designers and manufacturers.
New York County
A Bloomingdale's for price-conscious consumers is coming to the Upper West Side. The northwest corner of Broadway and W. 72nd St. will be home to a new Bloomingdale's Outlet store this fall that will offer a range of "off-price" merchandise targeted to shoppers watching their budgets. The new outlet, slated to open at 2085 Broadway in time for the holiday season, will be Bloomingdale's 14th and the first in an urban area.
Queens County
The original Airport City concept (an airport integrated economic region) facilitated by Greater Jamaica Development Corp. (GJDC) surrounding JFK's AirTrain Station in Downtown Jamaica is poised for takeoff. The drivers for the revitalization of Jamaica's Airport City or Village are two private investments; a 26-story, 240 room Hilton Garden Inn and a 100,000 s/f mixed-use retail and residential development. Both projects, due to break ground in 2015, are located directly across the street from the AirTrain/LIRR/Subway transit hub with a combined investment value of $279 million. Supporting the redevelopment is a variety of public improvements. GJDC, in coordination with NYC Economic Development Corp. and city, state and federal agencies, has been working on over $90 million of infrastructure projects.
Richmond County
Chicago-based General Growth Properties has announced a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of its 1.2-million-square-foot Staten Island Mall in New Springville that will add 1,300 new jobs to Staten Islands employment pool. Construction on the project, which will include interior and exterior upgrades, new fashion retailers, restaurants, a cinema, public piazza and a Fairway Market, is expected to commence following necessary city approvals. Construction is expected to be complete by 2017.
February 2015
Simone Development Companies will build a 1.9-million square foot mixed-use office, academic and medical complex on a 33-acre site at 1500 Waters Place, a parcel in the east Bronx. The state-owned site, next to Simone's Hutchinson Metro Center development, currently houses the Bronx Psychiatric Center of the state's Office of Mental Health. OMH plans to downsize to a newly built 43-acre campus south of the Waters Place parcel. The $16 million deal, which is subject to a diligence period and public approval process, is expected to create 1,900 construction jobs and several thousand permanent jobs. Much of the development will comprise of office space for healthcare tenants, as well as other businesses and government agencies, similar to the Hutch Metro Center. Plans for the site also include a retail plaza, a 150-room hotel, and space for higher education—although agreements with tenants have not been finalized.
Jewelry maker Alexis Bittar is expanding into what increasingly is becoming one of the city's most popular destinations for fashion and manufacturing companies. The Dumbo-based firm is taking about 17,000 square feet at the sprawling former warehouse complex, Industry City, along the waterfront in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The space will become the main manufacturing facility for the company's jewelry line. Alexis Bittar had previously fabricated its collection in Dumbo. The company will keep its 16,000-square-foot corporate office, with its sales, marketing and executive staff, at that 45 Main St. location. Its manufacturing space will greatly expand at Industry City. The company is at least the second jewelry maker to go to the complex. In September, BaubleBar signed a deal to take a nearly 53,000-square-foot space at Industry City to use as a distribution center for shipping its jewelry to customers. Industry City has drawn businesses that have fed off of Brooklyn's thriving culture of artisanal and locally made goods, and that hope to transition to a grander scale while still staying plugged into the borough's trendiness and ecosystem of creative businesses
January 2015
OSP Group has signed a 15-year lease to move its headquarters to One New York Plaza, a 2.5 million-square-foot tower at the foot of lower Manhattan that is owned by Brookfield Office Properties Inc. The retailer—whose products include women's apparel, shoes and lingerie—is consolidating offices from two Midtown buildings into 156,000 square feet in One New York Plaza. OSP Group currently is in about 150,000 square feet at 462 and 463 Seventh Ave. The company is receiving a $1.8 million grant from the Empire State Development and New York City Economic Development Corp., linked to creating 150 new jobs. OSP will invest $20 million to consolidate the two offices.
A luxury hotel in Queens will rise after the project cleared its last legal hurdle. Plans to build the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Jamaica were blocked by a legal battle between the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. and Robin Eshaghpour, who owned a portion of the property. Even though Eshaghpour had sold the property, he tried to hold onto a 99-year lease he had for the site. Supreme Court Judge Duane Hart ruled Eshaghpour had to accept the $444,000 payment for his remaining interest in the property, paving the way for Greater Jamaica to sell the land to developer Able Management Group. The 240-room hotel will rise 24 stories across from the Air Train on Sutphin Blvd. — a 10-minute ride to JFK Airport and a 22-minute commute to midtown Manhattan via the Long Island Rail Road
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has signed a lease to take more than 100,000 square feet at Liberty View Industrial Plaza, a technology and industrial complex in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park. The home-furnishings retailer plans to place four of its stores on the building's second floor: Bed Bath & Beyond; buybuy BABY; Cost Plus World Market; and Harmon Face Values. The lease will run for 15 years with options for additional years and the stores are slated to open in November 2015
A City-financed innovation hub is set to open at the Liberty View Industrial Plaza in Brooklyn's Sunset Park section. The Manufacturing Innovation Hub for Apparel, Textiles & Wearable Tech is financed by a $3.5 million grant that was recently announced by the New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC). Another $4.5 million is available through NYCEDC's Industrial Modernization Initiative, the city's effort to foster the industrial sector by modernizing and subdividing industrial space across the five boroughs. The funds will be used to complete the fit-out, upgrades and spaces subdivision of the new fashion innovation hub. The project is slated to occupy 160,000 square feet of space, of which 110,000 square feet will be dedicated to active manufacturing. The space will house around 30 businesses and up to 50 fashion designers and is expected to create or retain about 300 full-time jobs.
Amazon.com Inc. is getting $5 million in tax credits from New York state to bring 500 jobs to a property across the street from the Empire State Building. The online retailer is opening an office at 7 W. 34th St. in the Herald Square shopping district. The credits will come from the state's Excelsior Jobs Program.
New York's chief economic development agency has entered an agreement with Buzzfeed that gives the company $4 million in tax credits to promote the creation and retention of in-state jobs, the agency said in a statement. The announcement comes on the heels of news that Buzzfeed has signed one of the year's biggest leases in Midtown South, which has increasingly become a focal point for the city's tech and creative industries. The deal helped seal a commitment from Buzzfeed to stay in New York after it had considered several other locations around the country. Buzzfeed confirmed it had looked at other cities but declined to name them or discuss the details of their search. The digital media powerhouse moves from its current offices at 200 Fifth Avenue into 200,000 square feet on the 11th through 16th floors of 225 Park Ave. South next year. The $4 million granted by the Empire State Development Corp. comes out of New York's Excelsior Jobs Program, which was originally signed into law in 2010 and offers tax credits to cover a portion of the payroll costs at companies in booming industries. It is intended to offset the expenses Buzzfeed incurs for agreeing to create 475 new jobs over five years and to retain Buzzfeed's current New York workforce of more than 450 employees.
An arm of developer Forest City Ratner Cos. will buy its partner's stake in the Brooklyn Navy Yard modular-construction facility that had produced units for the former Atlantic Yards residential project. That process ended late this summer when a lawsuit between the two parties brought operations to a standstill. The firm has already reached out to the more than 150 workers who were furloughed as a result of the factory closure, and will begin a ramping-up process to bring the factory back online.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. may have scrapped plans to build a new headquarters on Manhattan's far West Side, but the bank still will have a presence in the neighborhood with its digital group. It signed a 10-year lease deal for about 123,000 square feet on the ninth floor of 450 W. 33rd St., a 16-story building that is part of Brookfield Property Partners LP's planned Manhattan West development, said Jeremiah Larkin, Brookfield executive vice president and director of leasing for New York and Boston. The bank plans to consolidate its digital teams in the tri-state area into this location and use the new office as a recruiting tool. The neighborhood is viewed as an emerging tech corridor. Brookfield is spending about $200 million to make over the 1.7 million-square-foot tower with a new pleated-glass exterior, interior renovations and new mechanical systems. For Brookfield, the lease is another step toward realizing the rest of its Manhattan West project, which includes the construction of two office towers, a residential high-rise building and a hotel.
The hotel boom in the South Bronx is showing no signs of slowing down. A Queens-based developer has filed plans with the city to construct a nine-story hotel with 94 rooms on East 147th St. in east Mott Haven. Additionally, a 12-story hotel is already under construction on Exterior St. and E. 146th St., and a Comfort Inn is beginning to rise on 135th St. and Third Ave. In September, plans for a 75-room luxury hotel on the Grand Concourse near 140th St. were filed with the city. And in Pelham Bay, a 125-room Residence Inn by Marriott at the Hutchinson Metro Center is scheduled to open in early 2015.
Spreemo, a cloud-based health care platform based in Hoboken, announced that it will be moving to 88 Pine St. in lower Manhattan early next year. Spreemo, which has doubled its headcount to 40 over the past year, will move into a 7,500 square-foot space in the 32-story tower. The decision to move was made easier by $600,000 in tax credits provided by New York's Empire State Development Corp. The credits are contingent on Spreemo creating 95 jobs over 10 years.
Snapchat, the app that allows users send messages that delete themselves after a few seconds, is opening an office near Times Square. Snapchat is taking the 16-story, 750,000-square-foot tower's entire 15th and 16th floors. Earlier this year, the app outfit was valued at as much as $10 billion.
Lowe's, the home improvement chain, is planning to open two stores in Manhattan in the second half of 2015, its first ever in the borough. Among other things, the new Lowe's outposts will offer home organization and storage products for customers used to living in small apartments. Both its locations will be around 30,000 square feet in size. Combined, the stores will create 125 jobs.
Fika, the Swedish coffee chain, is gaining a new reputation: that of the fastest-growing café in the city. It has opened seven stores in Manhattan since February for a total of 12, and it's about to open three more in November. The largest of the cafés is at 824 10th Ave. The bilevel, 5,000-square-foot eatery will have a café, open bakery, catering kitchen and event space. A 12th Fika is opening in October at 555 Sixth Ave. Fika hopes to open as many as 25 restaurants in New York City.
Bed Bath & Beyond and WeWork have each signed leases for 30,000 square feet at 5 West 125th Street in Harlem, a project under development between Fifth and Lenox Avenues. Both leases mark the tenants' first locations in Harlem. The tenants will occupy their respective spaces by the third quarter of 2015. A 130,000-square-foot building is expected to be completed at the site in fall 2015. It will include 30 residential rental units over commercial space. The home superstore will be located on the second floor of the development, while the co-working company will occupy the third floor.
Cadillac, long the king of Detroit's auto brands, is abandoning Motown. General Motors Co. said on Tuesday that its struggling luxury brand will move 50 key employees and its headquarters to New York next year amid a wider effort to carve Cadillac out as a stand-alone business unit with more autonomy. Long run from Detroit, GM's brass feels being in Manhattan will help Cadillac better reach luxury buyers.
Big-box buying comes to Bensonhurst. BJ's Wholesale Club opened its Bensonhurst store quietly on Sept. 13. The grand opening followed week later, but residents eager to buy provisions by the pallet took to the Shore Parkway store in droves ahead of the formal ribbon cutting. The 1752 Shore Parkway location is the third BJ's to open in Brooklyn — the other two are in Canarsie and East New York. The store employs 250 workers — 210 of whom live in Brooklyn.
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus will make its New York City debut as the retail centerpiece of the Hudson Yards venture, a flashy step forward in the developers' drive to create a mini-city on Manhattan's far West Side. The news Wednesday that Neiman had agreed to lease terms ignited a flurry of contacts from retailers interested in the seven-story retail project being built by Related Cos. and Oxford Properties Group, the developers said. The flagship store will occupy 250,000 square feet on the top three levels of the building. Developers intend to use the Neiman Marcus brand in part to entice consumers up successive levels of the complex near 10th Avenue and West 30th Street. The 1-million-square-foot complex will be sprinkled with restaurants and have an entrance on its fourth level to an observation deck planned for a tower on the 28-acre site. The Neiman Marcus store is expected to open in 2018
The Bronx is gaining hundreds of new hotel rooms. The Empire Hotel Group, opened the Opera House hotel on 149th St. last December. A sleek new 56-room tower in Melrose, dubbed the Umbrella Hotel, is set to start taking reservations by the end of the September. And plans were filed to build a 75-room luxury hotel on the Grand Concourse and 140th St., according to the office of borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. A 12-story hotel is already under construction on nearby Exterior St. and E. 146th St., and work has begun on a Comfort Inn on 135th St. and Third Ave. Some big names are being drawn to the borough as well. A 125-room Residence Inn by Marriott is currently under construction at the Hutchinson Metro Center in Pelham Bay. The seven-story extended-stay hotel will occupy the upper tier of a new 300,000-square-foot building at the heart of the sprawling 42-acre complex. Many of the hotels in the Mott Haven and Melrose areas are located near transit hubs that offer visitors quick commutes to traditional tourist destinations in Manhattan.
A new livery service for women that was supposed to start operating on 9/16/2014 in New York City, in Westchester County and on Long Island has been delayed until later this month to allow the company to recruit more female drivers. Tamika D. Mallory, the company spokeswoman, said more than 100 women had signed up to drive cars for the service. But she added that the company, which is expecting to receive hundreds if not thousands of requests every day, had decided to line up 500 female drivers before it began operating to avoid any delays for potential riders. SheTaxis — known as SheRides in the city's five boroughs — will instead start its website and begin holding what it calls "opportunity fairs" at its office in Long Island City, Queens, to encourage more drivers, both women and men, to join the livery industry. SheTaxis will operate through a smartphone app to connect female livery drivers sporting pink pashmina scarves with female riders.
MarketTrack LLC., an online click-tracking advertising firm, announced that it will lay off 107 people through the end of the current year.
Envoy Air, a budget airline, is moving its maintenance facilities out of New York City. All 704 personnel received layoff notices. However, all employees will be offered positions at the new Envoy Air hubs at the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth airports. The layoffs and re-locations will start immediately and finish by mid-January 2016.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. has notified the state Department of Labor that 5,191 employees in its 50 New York City stores will likely be terminated as early as November 12 as a result of store closings and store sales. The store brands being impacted are the Food Emporium in Manhattan and Pathmark, Food Basics, Waldbaums, and A&P in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Majority of NYC stores have buyers lined up, but several are under threat of closing. It is unclear how many of the current workforce will be employed by the new store owners.
Quirky, the Silicon Alley invention company whose blue-chip backers include General Electric and Andreessen Horowitz, will lay off 109 employees from its West 28th Street headquarters. The layoffs will occur between July 31 and Aug. 14. Reports have circulated in recent days that jobs cuts were already taking place as the company scrambled to find new backing for itself and its Wink subsidiary, which makes products for the connected home.
United Airlines will transfer 206 jobs from JFK to Newark Liberty Airport at the end of October 2015.
Narco Freedom announced plans to lay off all 513 of its employees effective 09/21/2015. The company has been rocked by bad news in recent months including enterprise corruption charges against members of the founding family.
The One UN New York Hotel will close for renovations in November 2015 with an anticipated re-opening in May 2016. 111 workers will be laid off effective 11/15/2015.
JPMorgan Chase & Co will move more than 2,100 jobs from Manhattan to New Jersey to benefit from an incentive program offered by the state of New Jersey. The bank, which was looking at options to expand its regional technology and operations hub, will get $19 million in subsidies for the move to New Jersey. The bank has leased part of a building in Jersey City. The jobs being moved to the building are mostly involved in technology and operations. The move would help JPMorgan consolidate and cut costs. Last year, JPMorgan received a $22.5 million grant from New Jersey to add 1,000 jobs and retain 2,612 in the state.
Donna Karan International's parent company, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is making cuts. The fashion conglomerate filed a WARN notice that it will lay off 70 employees at the Donna Karan label. The staffers were stationed at the company's 550 Seventh Ave. headquarters. The office also houses the company's less expensive DKNY brand. While some Donna Karan employees will be moved to the DKNY brand, the 70 who remained with the namesake label will be let go.
Crate & Barrel is closing its 650 Madison Avenue location and laying off all of its 137 employees. The effective date of the layoff is the second week of August, although the store will shut to the public on August 2nd.
Envoy Air is moving the crew and maintenance facilities for the airline to Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago airports, resulting in 693 potential layoffs in NYC. All affected personnel will be offered reassignment opportunities at the new locations.
The 3-D printing pioneer MakerBot is downsizing. The Brooklyn-based company recently laid off staff and closed its three retail stores, including a flagship in the Nolita neighborhood. A company spokesman declined to comment on specifics, but a report by a tech blog called Motherboard estimated that about 100 employees, or 20% of MakerBot's staff, were given pink slips.
Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services, a division of the larger Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens social services organization, said its programs for the developmentally disabled have lost the agency $13 million since 2010. It's now looking for other agencies to take over 24 of its residences and day programs by August. CCNS was losing $400,000 a month delivering services to 203 people with developmental disabilities. The closures will result in 719 layoffs, 198 of whom are substitutes for staff, at the 2,047-employee nonprofit. Those affected include health care workers such as registered nurses, psychologists, therapists and occupational therapists, and support staff, including maintenance workers, housekeepers and cooks. Some of these employees are represented by District Council 1707 and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 888.
The publisher of The American Lawyer and other publications, which changed hands last year after repeatedly downsizing, is about to lay off 61 employees. ALM Media will make the cuts in phases from the end of July through September. In an emailed statement, ALM CEO Bill Carter said the planned layoffs were part of the company's evolution from a "publisher of legal titles to a leading provider of information and data solutions ... serving multiple industry verticals. Having grown through several strategic acquisitions, we have looked to streamline our operations to take advantage of the synergies of our newly integrated businesses." Based in Manhattan, ALM was acquired—actually, reacquired—last July by private-equity firm Wasserstein & Co. from Apax Partners for $417 million. ALM also publishes The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and more than 300 other print and digital properties. In January, the company furthered its expansion into new industries with the acquisition of Summit Professional Networks, a trade publisher for the insurance industry.
The Streit's matzoh factory, the oldest such bakery in the U.S., is planning to shut down its 9-decade-old ovens by year's end and move to a 21st-century computerized plant somewhere in the New York area. The contract has yet to be signed. All employees will be offered jobs at the new location.
Junior's to move baking operation from Queens factory to New Jersey. The restaurant needs to move out if its Maspeth factory because the owners sold the 20,000-square-foot space. The four companies it operates in the factory will move from 58-42 Maurice Ave. to a new location in Burlington, New Jersey by July. Four subsidiaries, Vanilla Fudge, LLC; Sweet Dream Desserts, LLC; Great American Dessert Company LLC; and GAD Bakeries operated out the factory for last 15 years. The new factory will be five times the size of the Queens location and the staff will move their operations to New Jersey in the next few months. A filing with the state's Department of Labor said the companies employed a combined 75 people. The company hopes to transfer as many of the employees to the new facility as possible.
Metro Cable Communications will lay of 226 workers by 4/15/2015. The workers are represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3.
Cache Inc, which is in bankruptcy, laid off 103 workers effective 3/18/2015.
Morris Okun, a Hunts Point-based food distributor, announced the sale of its site to Katzman Produce. 115 workers were notified of possible layoff by 6/12/2015. The workers are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters or the Office & Professional Employees International.
DAL Global Services lost a contract to provide airline cabin cleaning and baggage handling services for Delta Airlines at JFK Intl airport. All 621 DAL employees were notified of possible layoff as of 6/1/2015. Air Serv Corp is the new contractor.
Air Serv Corp lost a contract to provide cabin services for Delta Airlines at LaGuardia Airport. 178 employees were notified of possible layoff by 6/1/2015. Gates Aviation is the new contractor.
The Mondrian Soho Hotel is facing possible foreclosure. The current owners are trying to sell the hotel. The Hotel's 201 staff members were notified of possible layoff effective 5/28/2015. The workers are represented by the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council.
Two years after opening its lower-priced casual line, Kate Spade Saturday, the high-end retailer Kate Spade & Co said it will close it down. That means that all 19 shops, including a 3,000-square-foot store at 152 Spring St., in the heart of SoHo, will be shuttered by July. The Spring Street store was open for less than 18 months, following innovative digital displays that operated as stores. The company also said it is shuttering the retail outposts of its Jack Spade men's brand—a move that will put two more prime retail spaces on the market downtown. By the second half of the year, space at 400 Bleecker St. and 56 Greene St. will be up for grabs.
GL Bus Lines, operator of Gray Line tour buses, announced plans to permanently lay off 149 workerss effective 3/12/2015. The company is currently in negotiation with the union representing it's workers.
Jones Apparel filed plans to lay off 229 workers between 1/28/2015 and 7/31/2015 as part of a previously announced restructuring.
Following the surprise announcemment of unexpected financial losses, Federation Employment and Guidance Services (FEGS) will cease a variety of programs run under contract with the City of New York and lay off more than 850 workers effective 4/20/2015.
Century Direct , a Long Island City-based printing firm, will invest $4.21 million in acquiring two, 85,000 square-foot properties in Islandia (Suffolk County) to house the company's manufacturing operations. The $1.16 million renovation will allow the company to add 135 new jobs, and move its existing 177 employees to the Town of Islip-based properties from Queens. Century Direct plans to open the new facility in March 2015. Aiding Century Direct with the relocation and expansion are tax breaks from the Islip Industrial Development Agency
Reiko Wireless, a manufacturer and distributor of cellphone accessories that's relocating from Brooklyn, will make a 130,000-square-foot former state distribution center on 13 acres in Central Islip (Suffolk County) its national headquarters. Reiko is moving to Long Island with the help of economic incentives from the Town of Islip Industrial Development Agency and discounted power from PSEG. The company is bringing 90 employees to its new location and has pledged to add 30 more in the next three years. Reiko will spend an additional $2 million on renovations and equipment for the Central Islip complex. Reiko plans to move in by the spring of 2015.
iQor, a global outsourcing company , will relocate its headquarters to St. Petersburg, Florida. More than 100 employees of iQor U.S. are expected to move into three floors at the Tower at One Progress Plaza, 200 Central Ave., in January 2015.
RBC Capital Markets indicated that over 900 jobs will be transferred from Manhattan to Jersey City, NJ by January 2015. All the affected employees will be offered transfers. Back in May 2014 the company announced receipt of a major incentive package from NJ that committed them to create at least 900 jobs in Jersey City.
Windmill Distributing, a beer and spirits wholesaler, announced 577 layoffs – 159 in Orange County and the balance in Brooklyn - effective 1/15/2015 because they are merging with Manhattan Beer.
Montefiore Medical Center is laying off approximately 200 people from three mental health treatment centers affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The layoff will commence during the first week of January 2015 and is expected to take about two weeks.
The Holiday Inn SoHo on Lafayette Street will close in January 2015 for a massive renovation lasting about a year. According to published reports new owner RFR Holdings will transform the property into a swanky boutique hotel like some of the others it owns, including Gramercy Park Hotel, the Paramount Hotel and the W South Beach. Some 74 employees at the Holiday Inn SoHo will be laid off starting Jan. 5 2015.
New York Times Co. plans to cut jobs across the company, including about 100 positions in the newsroom, to help boost long-term profitability as digital businesses have struggled to make up for the declines in print. The publisher disclosed plans for the buyouts and layoffs in a regulatory filing 10/01/2014, saying the reductions "are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times." In a memo to the newsroom, Executive Editor Dean Baquet said there will be forced layoffs if 100 newsroom jobs can't be eliminated through voluntary buyouts. A smaller number of positions will be reduced on the business side.
The InterContinental New York Barclay closed its doors 09/27/2014 for a $175 million renovation that started just before the busy fall and holiday season in New York. In fact, the 685-room property would likely have been sold out this week while the United Nations General Assembly is in session. The closure affects 447 employees, who are members of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council and were offered buyouts or the option to return to the hotel when it reopens. A spokeswoman for the hotel said the renovation will take about a year.
Sears will close it's Fordham Road store in the Bronx, 91 workers will be laid off effective 11/23/2014
The Rivington House, a Manhattan residential care facility, is closing and will lay off 231 workers beginning 10/31/2014.
Manhattan Ford Lincoln is closing and will lay off 245 workers effective 09/30/2014.
Swissport USA which handles cargo at JFK Intl Airport will lay off 180 workers effective 9/3/2014.
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