Who, What, Where, When?: Tracking the City’s Discretionary Economic Development Deals

Since Fiscal year 1994, the city’s Economic Development Corporation has been required to issue annual reports on the discretionary economic incentive deals it (and its related entities) make with businesses and nonprofit organizations to stay in, expand in, or relocate operations to New York City. At the request of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, IBO has used the 17 reports published throughJanuary 2011 to create a database that allows us to look at the distribution of deals involving bond financing and other discretionary benefits across industries, boroughs, and Mayoral administrations.

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