Infrastructure and Development
As a leading government relations firm representing hundreds of clients since 2001, Brown & Weinraub has developed significant expertise in assisting clients at the intersection of government and business in virtually every business sector. We’ve listed a few representative examples of community development successes below:
- Assisted an upstate New York real estate developer in obtaining an award of $5 million through the CFA process for a mixed used commercial project that included a hotel component
- Assisted a leading international IT company with locating a data center in upstate New York including a 7.2 megawatt allocation of low cost hydropower
- Assisted an upstate New York fuel cell manufacturer with numerous economic and energy funding awards totaling more than $10 million
- Assisted an upstate New York real estate developer in obtaining an award of $5 million through the CFA process for transportation infrastructure
- Assisted an upstate New York manufacturer in obtaining an award of $30 million in Excelsior Tax Credits
- Assisted a downstate Hospital in obtaining an award of $1 million through the CFA process for a new operating room
- Connected clients with local Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to develop facilities that will employ people in New York’s emerging cannabis market
- Supported experienced urban housing developers in establishing their own firm and identify properties likely to garner public funding for renovation
- Helped a national development firm with an historic adaptive reuse project through which it transformed a former school building into 103 units of mixed-income housing for seniors coordinating support from City of Albany, the Albany Industrial Development Agency (IDA), the Albany Community Development Agency (ACDA), the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
