Article: Empire Zone yields secrets after suit; Capital Region companies get $38M in breaks annually, newly released data show.(Main)

Article: State cracks down on Empire Zone companies; Three ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... believed to have fallen short of their Empire Zone goals, including roughly 230 in the Capital Region. Businesses that received the ... increased accountability of the Empire Zone program was part of Spitzer's ...

Article: COUNCIL OKS WIDER EMPIRE ZONE.(CAPITAL ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... and commercial land to the city's Empire Zone, with nearly half the expansion occurring ... plots in the Bellevue neighborhood. The Empire Zone was expanded in 2001 to include small ... Development Corp., which oversees the Empire Zone. Companies in Empire Zones get tax ...

Article: IT'S A BATTLE ZONE ABOUT THE EMPIRE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... enough to promote its inclusion as an Empire Zone? That is a matter of debate between ... city is not doing enough to promote the Empire Zone, which gives new businesses tax credits ... Troy, yet we have the benefits of an Empire Zone which are coveted by other communities ...

Article: LAW OKS BID FOR EMPIRE ZONE.(CAPITAL ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 14, 2002 ;     458 words ... ... TROY -- Rensselaer County lawmakers adopted legislation Tuesday they hope will pave the way for the county to be named an Empire Zone. Legislators had to approve the local law before an official application could be submitted for the state designation that ...

Article: Empire Zone yields secrets after suit: ...
Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... York state's Empire Zone economic development ... to hundreds of Capital Region companies ... make statewide Empire Zone data from 2003 ... that runs the Empire Zone program, released ... 2003 to 2005, Capital Region companies were ...

Article: Changes to Empire Zone weighed.(Capital ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... is weighing a reconfiguration of its Empire Zone that would allow parts of two affluent ... Park are expected to remain part of the Empire Zone as its director, Steve Strichman ... currently 150 businesses located within the Empire Zone. Strichman said the sections that are ...

Article: COMPTROLLER PLANS EMPIRE ZONE AUDIT.(CAPITAL ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 18, 2003 ;     652 words ... ... Hevesi said Thursday he will audit the Empire Zone program amid Democratic complaints that ... his Manhattan district did not get an Empire Zone designation last year, also said he ... is extremely proud of the innovative Empire Zone program, which we first called for ...