Center for an Urban Future

Economic Development

Reports

On a Wing and a Prayer: Highway Gridlock, Antiquated Cargo Facilities Keep New York's Airports Grounded, October 2000

The Skills Crisis: Building a Jobs System that Works, August 2000

The Empire Has No Clothes: Rising Real Estate Prices and Declining City Support Threatens the Future of New York's Apparel Industry, February 2000

The Sector Solution: Building a Broader Base for the New Economy, January 2000

Biotechnology: The Industry That Got Away, October 1999

The Sector Solution: The folly of an economic development policy that relies on corporate tax abatements and the presentation of a new sector-based approach, July 1999

Putting CUNY to Work: A broad review of CUNY's job training and business partnership programs with recommendations to expand these efforts, June 1999

Putting CUNY to Work: Small Business Assistance, June 1999

The Big Squeeze: How Rising Rents and the Real Estate Crunch are Forcing Small Businesses Out of New York, May 1999

Why New York Needs a New Jobs Policy: The Need to Restructure Economic Development Strategies to Focus on Small Business Development, December 1998

Articles, Testimony and Other Publications

Testimony before the New York City Workforce Investment Board, August 17, 2000

Testimony before the City Council Economic Development Committee on the Status of the Garment Industry in New York, May 31, 2000

Comments to the City Planning Department on its proposal to rezone parts of Long Island City, May 4, 2000

Testimony Before the City Council Economic Development Committee at a Hearing on the Future of Manufacturing in New York City, November 29, 1999

Research over Rhetoric: Comments on the Report of the Mayor’s Advisory Task Force on The City University of New York, June 21, 1999

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