Anderson Plaza, At What Cost?
Community Benefits Program fuels a race to the bottom. The Anderson Plaza ribbon cutting on April 21 marked the completion of the City of New Rochelle’s most ambitious project yet under the “Community Benefits...
Category: Downtown Development
D.A. Bragg Indicts New Rochelle Development Contractor JM3 in Wide-Ranging Construction Fraud Scheme
Construction Execs and Subcontractors Conspired to Fraudulently Use Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises as Pass-Through Entities to Obtain Contracts for Affordable Housing Developments Engaged in Payroll and Insurance Fraud and Other Forms of Corruption...
Development for the Sake of Development
City Increases Incentives for Developers, Backslides in Affordable Housing Lately, the City of New Rochelle administration is showing off its accomplishments in promoting high-rise development of rental housing in Downtown New Rochelle. According...
New Rochelle Development–With a Positive Spin!
City Manager and Development Commissioner take their show on the road On March 30, 2023, the new City Manager, Kathleen Gill, teamed up with the new Deputy City Manager and Commissioner of Development, Adam...
State of the City: Development for Whom?
Mayor’s address calls for “honest conversations” but buries issues affecting the financially distressed and marginalized. In his final State of the City Address on Thursday, March 9, Mayor Noam Bramson declared victory after a...
The LINC: Where Are the Homes and Businesses?
On Saturday, March 4, and Monday, March 6, the City of New Rochelle’s Department of Development held two “design workshops” to engage the community about The LINC, a proposed linear park on Memorial Highway. ...
Redeveloping History?
Concerned citizens living in the Historic District came to the Feb. 14th Citizens to Be Heard to urge the City Council to respect the letter and intent of the City Council’s 1986 legislation designating...
Noisy Overnight Construction at Echo and Huguenot: Who is responsible?
After 10 pm on the night of February 6, 2023, the residents of what remains of Pugsley Hollow, and those living in Homestead Park, were awakened to the sounds of jackhammers tearing up the...