April 30, 2021 finance & economy
Mayor de Blasio Joins Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, Nanotronics & New York State to Open High-Tech Manufacturing Center
Mayor de Blasio today joined the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), Nanotronics, Empire State Development (ESD) and CUNY s Medgar Evers College for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the company’s flagship manufacturing center located in the Navy Yard s historic Building 20, a 150-year-old former shipbuilding factory. The opening reinforces the Navy Yard’s mission to anchor the rebirth of urban manufacturing, create sustainable urban manufacturing jobs and grow the modern industrial sector in New York City, and comes as the city is focused on reopening and getting New Yorkers back to work. The project was primarily funded through $3.25 million from the City of New York and a $2.25 million Regional Economic Development Council capital grant through ESD in
Mayor de Blasio has officially opened the 45,000 s/f Nanotronics
manufacturing center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Nanotronics, a science technology company that combines AI,
automation and sophisticated imaging to manufacture hardware and software
capable of working on a nanometer scale, will use the building as its
headquarters.
The factory, designed by Rogers Partners Architects + Urban
Designers, will house research and development operations as well as production
and design by the company’s artificial intelligence researchers, computer
scientists, chemists and physicists.
“The Brooklyn Navy Yard has a history of serving New Yorkers
in times of crisis, and it proved its worth once again at the height of the
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID The Quality Inn on Saranac Avenue will be converted to a Cambria-brand hotel rather than a Homewood Suites and Tru-branded hotel. Developers of the Lake Placid hotel appeared before the North Elba-Lake Placid Joint Review Board on Wednesday to ask the board to amend its past approval of their project to reflect the new branding. Cambria is part of the Choice Hotels group, which also includes the Quality, Comfort, Sleep, Clarion, EconoLodge and Rodeway brands. Homewood Suites and Tru are part of the Hilton brand family. Cambria touts itself on its website as offering “upscale essentials for the modern traveler,” highlighting “little indulgences” such as bars with local craft beers, menus with local flavors and spa-inspired bathrooms.
One lasting legacy of the coronavirus pandemic is how it changed the way we work. It’s allowed many people to work from anywhere, and made the concept of remote work mainstream.
Road projects, buy local ads, job training can help revive the LI economy, panel says newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.