The Westchester Innovation Network’s City Labs initiative launched a new project in New Rochelle on Wednesday to explore how virtual reality can foster business growth. Students from Iona University’s Introduction to Ideation and Design Thinking class will spend the next six weeks engaging with New Rochelle stakeholders and business owners to brainstorm potential new uses for NRVR, a virtual reality tool created by New Rochelle to help residents experience new public spaces in the rapidly transforming city. The Westchester Innovation Network (WIN) matched the Iona students with New Rochelle as part of the Business Council of Westchester’s focus on making […]

As the region’s leading business membership organization focused on economic development and advocacy, the Business Council of Westchester has released its 2023 Legislative Agenda. As in past years, the 2023 Legislative Agenda asks for reforms to federal, state and county governments that reduce taxes, business fees, regulatory requirements and lengthy approval processes that act as obstacles to creating new jobs in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley. Among the many recommendations in its 48-page report, the BCW urges lawmakers at County, State, and Federal levels not tocreate any mandates and regulations on the back of businesses. Among the specific issues […]

The BCW’s new talent-search series launched on Tuesday as a five-part effort to help members secure their workforces. The highly informative one-hour webinar, Talent Tuesday: They’re Just Not That Into You: The Changing Employee-Employer Relationship, featured insights from Greg Giangrande, NY Post Columnist and Chief People & Chief Communications Officer, Ellucian; Jack Lusk, President and CEO, Harris Rand Lusk; Allison Madison, President & CEO , Madison Approach Staffing; Susan Thomas, Client Partner, Heyman Associates; and Don Zinn, Senior Vice President, Steven Douglas. “Many of our members have told us that talent attraction is the number one issue facing their businesses […]

The TV and motion picture production industry is a booming business in Westchester County, creating thousands of new jobs. The Business Council of Westchester wants to keep it growing which is why it supports the New York State film and television tax credit being extended and expanded to keep this thriving and prestigious industry growing within the county’s borders. In a letter to the editor written by BCW Executive Vice President and COO John Ravitz, he says the BCW strongly supports Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2023-24 budget that proposes increasing the annual film and television production tax credit from $420 to […]

CLICK HERE to watch Talent Tuesday: They’re Just Not That Into You: The Changing Employee-Employer Relationship.

The BCW welcomed Governor Kathy Hochul to its headquarters on Wednesday for a presentation and roundtable discussion about the region’s housing crisis and her New York Housing Compact that proposes to build 800,000 new housing units in the next decade. “Change is never easy. The status quo means just that—you stay where you are. You stagnate. But I know Westchester County and the Hudson Valley region do not want to be in that category,” said Gov. Hochul to a large gathering of more than 100 business and political leaders at the BCW’s headquarters in Rye Brook. “This is a forward-thinking, […]