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The Business Council of Westchester’s Westchester Innovation Network (WIN) has launched a new CityLabs project with the City of White Plains and Iona University to understand workforce development opportunities in Westchester and leverage the White Plains Education and Training Center to support workforce growth. Students from Iona University’s Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation will spend the next four weeks working on ways to revitalize a job training program located in White Plains’ Brookfield Commons (formerly the site of Winbrook houses), a housing community with affordable housing units in downtown White Plains. Winbrook Houses previously held job training classes on site, […]

BCW Executive Vice President and COO John Ravitz was the co-author of an Op-Ed that ran in newspapers throughout the state opposing proposed state legislation that is harmful to small businesses. “Among the harmful proposals that have popped up around the country, and now in New York, is a measure that would hand control of wage and benefit decisions to external, unelected groups lacking knowledge of the specific needs and differences of local industries and regions. Rather than allowing small business owners to assess and address the needs of their workers and communities in the way they know best, these […]

The Business Council of Westchester (BCW) continued its State of the Economy series on Wednesday with a focus on two of Westchester’s most transformational projects. Bruce Berg, Chief Executive Officer of the Cappelli Development Company, and Joe Cotter, Chief Executive Officer of National Resources, presented updates on the District Galleria proposal for White Plains and the massive film and television studio expansion underway in Yonkers. “The transformational projects in White Plains and Yonkers are fostering important and fresh approaches to community renewal,” said BCW President and CEO Marsha Gordon. “These initiatives are not only reshaping landscapes, but they are also […]

The Business Council of Westchester’s (BCW) Smart Development Working Group, which consists of 17 developers, held its annual meeting with the Westchester state delegation on March 15. The group discussed how Albany can facilitate the construction of more housing at a time when building costs are skyrocketing. Recognizing the urgent need to create more housing to ensure affordability and maintain Westchester’s competitiveness, the Smart Development Working Group presented findings from an in-depth study comparing the development costs of multi-family housing projects in the Pre-Pandemic era with today’s reality. “Every year it seems as if new regulations add costs and sometimes […]

As part of the Business Council’s on-going talent development initiative, several prominent current and former government leaders joined a Pathways to Public Service panel on Wednesday at Manhattanville College to share career insights with students and alumni interested in pursuing public-sector jobs. Moderated by Christopher Thunberg, Director of Manhattanville’s Center for Career Development, the panel featured former New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, executive director of Sustainable Westchester; Joanne Fernandez, chief of staff to New York’s Department of State; Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins; and Wilson Kimball, president and CEO of the Yonkers Housing Authority. The event’s panelists reminded students and […]