| Company | P.O.P. Displays |
| Date Announced | 11/13/1998 |
| Site | Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
| Total Subsidy | $2 million |
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| Promised Job Creation | ??? |
| Promised Job Retention | 31 |
| Length of Contract | 25 years |
| Competing Sites | ??? |
| Conditions | none |
| Notes | This
subsidy is atypical of the deals documented here (retention subsidies
worth $1 million or more) in two ways: First, it is going to a company
located outside of Manhattan, and second, the company is in the
manufacturing industry. P.O.P. Displays makes "point-of-purchase" displays for displaying products in stores. The company received this package of sales tax and property tax exemptions to help P.O.P buy, renovate and equip a 230,000 square-foot building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, augmenting its Woodside, Queens facility. |
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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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