“We have never had the support of a political leader, but we are always looking for ways to help voters, so we get along well with the average voter,” said Paul Feiner, a city supervisor in Greenburg. I will,” he said. Numerous new town initiatives. “They have full access to me. They can call my cell during the day and on weekends. sensitive to.”
For Feiner and Greenburgh, businesses large and small as well as professional practitioners are important as part of the economic engine of constituencies and towns.
“As I drive down Central Avenue, many small stores that were vacant are now being replaced by smaller stores,” says Feiner. “We provide excellent service and we want people and businesses who come here to know that if they have a problem they will get an answering machine or have to wait an hour. We are creating a culture in our town where we want people to feel that we are trying to address their concerns.”
Feiner noticed that Greenburgh doesn’t have a chamber of commerce. The Chamber of Commerce lobbies on behalf of its members and sees it as an important means of enabling networking while increasing a sense of community among businesses. So he proposed to set up just such an organization and issued a public invitation to the conference.
“Surprisingly, Greenberg has not had a chamber for years. . “One of my goals for this year is to have a very active Chamber of Commerce. I posted a notice and now we have about 30 volunteers.”
Feiner’s Formation Chamber held its second organizational meeting on January 9th.
“We’re going to reach out to businesses and hopefully we can help local businesses survive and take advantage of programs that can help them,” Feiner said. There may be a marketing effort, you may try to get a student with marketing skills to help you with social media, perhaps to help the student start their own business. You might even be able to create opportunities You can’t survive as a small business without e-commerce Organize programs, conferences and social events Organize street activities Programs where residents receive discounts There may be.”
Feiner said many villages in the town of Greenberg already have chambers of commerce that serve local communities.
“The Rivertown Chamber of Commerce is great. The Sleepy Hollow-Tarrytown Chamber is great,” says Feiner. “We look at what they’re doing and try to do the same for unincorporated Greenberg companies.”
Feiner said the town’s economic development has been mixed, including Regeneron’s $1.8 billion expansion project, the opening of a new ShopRite supermarket in the next few weeks, and the planned improvements to Route 119 as a result of the Complete Streets Study. I emphasized what was happening in the form. Commencement of construction of new affordable housing, senior housing and market value housing projects.
“There is a lot of land in Greenburg that could potentially be developed,” Feiner said. “There are country clubs that sell, like Elmwood, and some that sell part of their property, like Metropolis did for assisted living. We have office space that can be redeveloped for.We have Four Corners in Hartsdale, which can be developed for multiple uses.There are a lot of development possibilities.”
Feiner envisioned that some future multifamily developments could be shaped as condominiums or co-ops rather than rental buildings. With that in mind, Greenberg last year worked with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Rep. Allowed condos and co-ops to be valued at the residential real estate tax rate instead of the lower commercial tax rate as before. training. Governor Ho-Chol signed into law a bill affecting only Greenburg on December 23. Greenburg’s existing cooperatives and condominiums will continue to be taxed at the commercial rate.
“We want to see if there are developments that will allow us to keep our taxes as low as possible. “If we can get more income[from new developments]we can help all taxpayers.”
This marks the 32nd year of the Democratic Finale as Greenburg Town Supervisor. He is Westchester County’s longest-serving public service officer. Previously a member of the Westchester County Council, he entered politics at the age of 12 and began working as a volunteer in the successful 1968 Ogden Reid legislative campaign.
“The world is changing and we must be willing to adapt to the changing business environment,” says Feiner. “Greenberg’s location is really great. We were able to lower our tax rates, but they are rising. It is not a community that has