It’s yet unclear in what way the city will adopt or address the Bushwick steering committee’s plan, but both sides expect to be working together in a coordinated fashion.
The Small Business Jobs Survival Act, which would establish a right to commercial lease renewal, has been kicking around City Council for three decades. Then as now, worries about economic impact and Constitutionality have bogged the bill down.
Rising commercial rents could threaten independent stores in the neighborhood. The de Blasio administration is studying the commercial landscape and developing a plan.
Small Business Saturday is great. But that sort of push needs to happen more often, for it to generate a cultural, systematic shift, rather than a blip on the consumer spending trend lines.
Gregg Bishop, who was elevated to the commissioner’s post this week, talked to Worksite correspondent Marc Bussanich this summer.
Data indicate that the number of businesses owned by women have increased 43 percent in the last decade. Behind each of those data points lay ambition, ideas and hard work.
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