Robert Potack News Today

Manufacturing facilities, once the backbone of American industrialism and now considered obsolete, can through purposeful reuse metamorphosize for modern industry. Through repositioning, these expansive spaces offer solid framework, ceiling heights and architectural elements uncommon to modern construction. A well-executed reinvention enables a second life dramatically different from first use. Unitex, one of the nation’s top 10 commercial laundry service providers, embraced adaptive reuse f...

Laundry biz that serves most NYC hospitals is putting employees at COVID risk, union says Shant Shahrigian Employees of a huge commercial laundry company say they have faced lack of personal protective equipment, close-quarters conditions and allegedly callous management as they’ve cleaned linens for all of New York City’s publicly run hospitals and several big private ones. At at least one of the company’s six sites in the metropolitan area, workers have even had to scrou...