| Company | Conde Nast |
| Date Announced | 5/8/1996 |
| Site | Broadway @ 43rd |
| Total Subsidy | $10.8 million |
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$0.75 million |
| Promised Job Creation | 266 |
| Promised Job Retention | 1,570 |
| Length of Contract | 20 years |
| Competing Sites | North Carolina |
| Conditions | none |
| Notes | Conde
Nast received these benefits to move into a new building developed by the
Durst Organization, which was already set to receive as much as $6 million
per year in tax breaks as part of the Times Square redevelopment plan. During negotiations for this $10.75 million deal, Conde Nast eliminated its pre-press unit, which had occupied two floors at its Madison Avenue Headquarters, without telling negotiators for the city and state about the layoffs. |
| Corporate Notes | |
| Critics | Ira Schuman, executive vice president of commercial real estate broker Julien J. Studley, Inc.: "As a community, we need to be having a discussion as to what level of assistance the government should be providing, especially when we have a healthy economy" (New York Times, 10/17/97). |
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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 |
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