Company Furman Selz
Date Announced 7/18/1997
Site 230 Park Avenue
Total Subsidy $2.4 million

Amount tied to job creation

$2.4 million
Promised Job Creation 400
Promised Job Retention 580
Length of Contract 16 years
Competing Sites Weehawken, N.J.
Conditions Eligible for benefits only as it achieves specific employment growth thresholds.
Notes This package for investment banking and financial services firm Furman Selz is the second retention deal that tied subsidies to job growth. (ING Barings was first.)
Corporate Notes
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