This opinion piece from Ilana Preuss highlights one of my favorite components of #CityOfYes for Economic Opportunity: allowing small, clean production businesses to locate in storefronts and offices so that New Yorkers can make things and sell them in the same space. This zoning proposal would update antiquated restrictions preventing businesses like coffee roasters, microbreweries, 3-D printers, jewelry makers, apparel designers, woodworkers, and many other kinds of makers from locating in much of New York City. Read Ilana's op-ed to learn more about the wider benefits of this long-overdue zoning reform, and check out https://lnkd.in/eM2GaHFT to get involved.
Bring main street, downtown, & the local economy back to life with small-scale manufacturing. CEO of Recast City.
New opinion piece published! NYC is updating its zoning code for the first time in 60 YEARS! One piece of it (Proposal 6) is updating uses that are allowing in commercial spaces (think storefronts!) to include clean-safe production businesses. YES!!! This is #smallscalemanufacturing and can make such a difference for all the #vacantstorefronts through out NYC. We need this change for our small businesses in #CRE. We also need property owners and the city to help these business afford the space. Good paying jobs and local business owners are a key feature of a strong local economy. Investing in spaces for small and clean and modern #manufacturing is a public good! New York Daily News https://lnkd.in/ee6pUCDh (trying to gift the link - hope it works so you don't have the paywall)