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August 19, 2013 | VOL. 49, No. 33

Echo BAy critics sounD off

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Community opposition emerges over scaled-down plan

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BY mARK LuNGARIeLLo mlungariello@westfairinc.com

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Steven and Karen Pietropaolo at their forensic engineering company’s office in North White Plains.

long-discussed redevelopment project on New Rochelle’s Echo Bay appears to be headed for official approval this fall, although in a significantly scaled back form than originally planned. Forest City Residential Inc., an affiliate of Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises, plans to build 285 luxury apartments, 25,000 square feet of retail space and a 5-acre waterfront park at an East Main Street site that includes a city public works yard and a portion of an unused armory building. Not everyone is enamored with the proposal and some don’t even like the artist’s renderings of the completed work, which shows kayakers in the bay. Echo Bay, page 6

Companies fall short at creating jobs Report cites failures to meet projections BY johN GoLDeN jgolden@westfairinc.com

A sTATe oVersighT AgenCy has found that companies receiving financial incentives from industrial development agencies by 2012 had 1,642 fewer jobs across New York than they agreed to create when receiving IDA tax breaks five years earlier on their new construction, expansion or relocation projects. The 280 still-active projects approved by IDAs in 2008 received nearly $183 million in financial assistance over the five-year period. In Westchester County, companies by last year had created 82 fewer jobs than they projected

when starting their IDA-backed projects in the recession year of 2008. The state report did not include the Mount Vernon and New Rochelle IDAs, which had not filed their required annual reports with the state when the survey was conducted, and the inactive Mount Pleasant IDA. The job-creation findings were included in the 2013 annual report released last month by the state Authorities Budget Office. The Albany office oversees 45 state authorities and 529 local public authorities. Of the local authorities, 112 are industrial development agencies and 292 are local develJobs, page 6

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