Bob Hennelly
WNYC's Bob Hennelly is an award-winning investigative journalist. While at WNYC he has reported on a wide gamut of major public policy questions ranging from immigration and homeland security to power outages and utility mergers.
Brooklyn Revitilization Zones
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Just days after vowing to help preserve manufacturing jobs in his state of the city speech, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a long-awaited industrial retention plan in East New York. That Brooklyn neighborhood will be one of 14 that will be designated as industrial business zones, and Bloomberg says his administration is committed to keep these areas from being re-zoned for residential use.
Along with the IBZ’s, the mayor will invest 17 million dollars over the next four years to run a new mayor's office of manufacturing, which will offer relocation tax credits and even enhanced garbage services for companies to entice them to stay. WNYC's Bob Hennelly joins us to talk more about this effort.
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