Company Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
Date Announced 3/1/2001
Site Madison Avenue at 42nd Street
Total Subsidy $16 million

Amount tied to job creation

Promised Job Creation ???
Promised Job Retention ???
Length of Contract ???
Competing Sites none
Conditions none
Notes CIBC will build a 35-story headquarters at Madison and 42nd and move about 2700 employees from current offices at 425 Lexington Avenue and 1 World Trade Center.
Corporate Notes CIBC, behind Royal Bank of Canada, is Canada's second largest bank.
Critics
A note on sources -- or why many of these profiles appear incomplete. They are. Good Jobs New York compiled the numbers in these profiles from press releases and news accounts of the deals. Unfortunately, more detailed information on these subsidies is very difficult to obtain -- even though it should be readily available to the public. In many cases, neither the company nor the city nor state released certain information, particularly the terms of the agreement, i.e., the conditions which the company had to meet in order to receive the subsidy. It should also be noted that the value of the subsidy may not end up being equal to the value estimated at the time of the agreement. And it should not be assumed that the actual number of jobs retained and created will be the same as the numbers predicted.

Because the public deserves easy access to information about how taxpayer dollars are being spent, Good Jobs New York will update these profiles as we uncover more information.

Good Jobs New York  - May 25, 2001