Will Jobs and Real Affordable Housing Be Reviewed? Ten years into New Rochelle’s downtown redevelopment, City Council voted December 9 to “reexamine and update” the Downtown Overlay Zone (DOZ) with an eye toward holding...
For the past 10 years, developers have been making payments into New Rochelle’s Community Benefit Fund in exchange for waivers allowing them to build taller buildings than normally allowed under building codes. The meaning...
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “How an NYC Suburb is Actually Managing to Bring Rents Down,” which got further exposure on Fox and MSNBC. New Rochelle is that NYC suburb...
The New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA) voted to give a 15-year extension of tax breaks for New Rochelle Gardens at their meeting on July 30. Their unanimous vote addressed two areas where the...
New Rochelle has one public pool located in Lincoln Park. But the city’s bureaucracy has made it difficult for local kids to swim there.
Where are the Family Supporting Jobs and Local Business Opportunities? Ten years into the redevelopment of the downtown, New Rochelle continues to fail to make good on its promise of family supporting jobs for...
We often hear that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” If, however, you’re not in a boat, a rising tide can kill you. New Rochelle is in the 10th year of the radical...
Pressure mounts for moratorium on new downtown construction As City officials tout New Rochelle’s decade-long downtown redevelopment as an example to follow, scores of residents spoke out at the March 25 Planning Board meeting...
By Damon R. Maher There’s a sad and perplexing coda to the New RoAR News 1/28/25 article heralding a new day at the NR Industrial Development Agency (IDA). Instead of bringing in new, pro-labor,...
On Wednesday, February 26, at 7:30 pm, the New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development (CLD) will meet to discuss, and possibly vote on, a resolution to renew the annual $250,000 contract with Westhab’s First...
