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Innovating Community June 20, 2017 On behalf of the Long Island • How do we ensure we build the right City Partnership, and our co- retail mix, connect people to our cultural hosts Modern Spaces and the resources, facilitate job growth and Queens Courier, we welcome you encourage healthy living? to the fourth annual LIC Summit: We have assembled a distinguished roster Innovating Community. of thought leaders from across the borough, city and state to discuss our community’s Long Island City is an authentic mixed-use current and future landscape. Many more are neighborhood, with an exceptional blend in the audience, and we look forward to an of industrial, commercial, residential, tech important discourse throughout the day. and cultural sectors. Each year we have the challenge of covering this dynamism We wish to thank all of our elected officials, within the confines of one Summit. In the sponsors, partners, and civic and business past three years we’ve covered everything leaders who have together driven the from Residential & Commercial Real Estate, monumental change in LIC. We also thank Workforce, Transportation, Arts & Culture, our stellar Summit Planning Committee and TV & Film, and LIC as a Fashion District. Board for helping us put together such a high quality program, and the Museum of the Today, we are focusing on how we knit the Moving Image for hosting us. community together through innovating at every level – from the Streets to the Cloud. Thank you for attending today and being part Key questions for discussion will include: of the conversation. We hope that you will participate actively both today and beyond. • How will LIC knit its growing population and expanding businesses together to foster place and community?

• H ow can LIC accommodate more space for innovation, tech and biosciences? Elizabeth Lusskin Gary Kesner President Chair

Thank you to all our Elected Officials for their continued support

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

Mayor Bill de Blasio

US Senator Charles E. Schumer US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

US Congresswoman New York State Senator Carolyn B. Maloney Michael Gianaris

New York State Assemblywoman Queens Borough President Catherine Nolan Melinda Katz

New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer LIC Summit is hosted by Long Island City Partnership’s mission is to advocate for economic development that benefits Long Island City’s industrial, commercial, cultural, and residential sectors. The goal is to attract new businesses to LIC, retain those already here, welcome new residents and visitors, and promote a vibrant and authentic mixed- use community. The LIC Partnership operates the Long Island City Business Improvement District and the LIC Industrial Business Zone, among other programs.

Long Island City, located directly across the East River from Midtown Manhattan, is a vibrant mixed-use community. Home to Fortune 500 companies, world-renowned arts and cultural institutions, prominent film and television studios, a large industrial base, and over 70,000 residents, Long Island City is a diverse and authentic NYC neighborhood in the borough of Queens - America’s most diverse county. To learn more and become a member visit licqns.com

Event Co-Hosts Modern Spaces is an independently-owned real estate brokerage company that specializes in residential and commercial sales and leasing as well as project development and marketing in New York City. Founded by Eric Benaim on the principles of customer service, community involvement and dedicated industry expertise, Modern Spaces’ agents are trained to provide their clients with absolute support, guidance and commitment from beginning to end of every real estate transaction. Learn more at modernspacesnyc.com.

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Catering by Bartleby and Sage Schedule

8:00AM - Registration and Networking Breakfast 8:30AM Coffee service and snacks available throughout the morning

8:30AM - Welcoming Remarks 9:00AM Gary Kesner, Carl Goodman, Eric Beniam, Joshua Schneps, Elizabeth Lusskin

9:00AM - Keynote Panel – Coordinating Investment in the LIC Community 9:45AM Elizabeth Lusskin, James Patchett, Seth Pinsky, Carlo Scissura, Kathryn Wylde

Bringing Life, Culture & Connectivity 10:00AM - Retail as Placemaking to our Streets and Spaces Patricia Dunphy, Melissa Burch, Donna Drimer, 11:00AM David Brause, David Burney, Ebony Conely-Young, Aaron Fishbein, Amber Jacobsen, Natalia Macias Katie Denny Horowitz, Neil Gagliardi, Tracy Hadden Loh

LIC’s Innovation, High Tech & 11:15AM - LIC’s Residential Evolution Alan Suna, Zachary Adler, Eric Benaim, Advanced Manufacturing Economy 12:15PM L. Stephen Hill, Aaron Shirian, John Young Melva Miller, Ron Brachman, Paula Kirby, Jeff Merritt, Peter Weijmarshausen, Kate Wittels

12:15PM - Lunch and Exhibits Café and Sponsor Pavilion 1:00PM Fox Amphitheater

12:45PM - Keynote Panel – Returning to the Regional Context 1:45PM Jonathan Bowles, Winston Fisher, Gail Mellow, Angela Sung-Pinsky

1:45PM - Conference Wrap-Up 2:00PM Welcoming Remarks Redstone Theater 8:30AM

Gary Kesner Executive Vice President Silvercup Studios

Carl Goodman Executive Director Museum of the Moving Image

Eric Benaim Founder and CEO Modern Spaces

Joshua Schneps Co-publisher/Founder and President Schneps Communications/LIC Flea & Food

Elizabeth Lusskin President Long Island City Partnership Keynote Panel: Coordinating Investment in the LIC Community Redstone Theater 9:00AM - 9:45AM

Long Island City, with its mix of unique businesses, explosive residential growth, cultural destinations, and extensive transportation infrastructure, is experiencing unprecedented investment from the public and private sector. How do we ensure the multitude of planning and development initiatives underway build on LIC’s success as a truly mixed-use community and innovation district without threatening the very mix of uses that helped attract investment in the first place?

Elizabeth Lusskin (Moderator) James Patchett LIC Partnership NYC Economic Development Elizabeth Lusskin is President of LIC Partnership and Corporation Executive Director of the LIC BID. She joined LIC Partnership after serving as Chief of Staff/VP Strategic A proponent of affordable housing and a principal Initiatives at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, driver of Mayor de Blasio’s effort to create 100,000 expanding its incubator and entrepreneurship efforts. jobs, James Patchett became President and CEO of Previously, she served as Deputy Commissioner, NYCEDC in February 2017 after serving as Chief of Staff NYC SBS, General Counsel, Downtown Alliance, and to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen. Before his transition to Legislative Counsel, NYS Office of Federal Affairs. NYCEDC, Mr. Patchett was pivotal in securing many of the Mayor’s signature affordable housing achievements and was one of the de Blasio administration’s chief negotiators on major land use matters. Mr. Patchett holds a BA in Economics from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford University. He lives in Brooklyn with Seth Pinsky his wife and young son. RXR Seth Pinsky is an Executive Vice President at RXR Realty, where he leads RXR’s efforts in “emerging sub- markets” in the New York region. He focuses on areas Carlo A. Scissura, Esq. with significant growth potential, particularly in the New York Building Congress Outer Boroughs and suburban downtowns. Carlo A. Scissura is President & CEO of the New Prior to RXR, Pinsky was Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s York Building Congress, a broad-based membership Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which association committed to promoting the growth and developed a $20 billion climate change resiliency plan. success of the construction industry in New York City Pinsky also served at NYCEDC, where he was President and its environs. from 2008 to 2013. Carlo was previously President & CEO of the Brooklyn Previously, Pinsky was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb Chamber of Commerce, prior to which he was Chief and a financial analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. He of Staff and General Counsel to Brooklyn Borough graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law. President Marty Markowitz. He also owned a thriving solo practice law firm and served on the staffs of State Senator Vincent Gentile and Assemblyman Peter Abbate. Carlo is a lifelong Brooklyn resident. He currently lives in Kathryn S. Wylde Dyker Heights with his daughter Teresa Rose. Partnership for NYC Kathryn Wylde is President and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City. Ms. Wylde was responsible for developing and managing affordable housing and economic development programs that contributed to the renaissance of blighted urban neighborhoods across the five boroughs. An internationally recognized expert on urban policy, Ms. Wylde has been awarded honorary degrees from Fordham University and St. Francis College and serves on the boards of many nonprofit institutions. Bringing Life, Culture & Connectivity to our Streets and Spaces Redstone Theater 10:00AM - 11:00AM

An important feature of Innovation Districts is their live/work/play culture that attracts employees and investors while developing a rich network of social and cultural capital. Key to the success of both place and businesses are the physical public and privately owned assets that join spaces together and encourage interaction and collaboration. How do we integrate our many cultural assets and opportunities for art interventions to tie our community together? How can we use digital and physical tools to connect our community geographically, economically, educationally, and inspirationally?

David Brause (Moderator) David Burney Brause Realty Pratt Institute David Brause has worked in real estate for over 25 years David Burney is co-founder and director of the Urban handling acquisitions, development and management Placemaking and Management program at the Pratt of office, retail, and residential property in the tri- Institute School of Architecture. The graduate MS state area. As President of Brause Realty Inc., one of program is the first in the country to focus on the the premier family real estate firms in New York, he emerging field of “placemaking” as an approach to has been active in the ownership and development urban and community design. David Burney was of approximately three million square feet of space. Commissioner of the New York City Department of Currently, Brause Realty is developing The Forge, a Design and Construction (“DDC”) from 2004 to 2014 38-story, 272-unit luxury apartment building on Purves where he launched a City-wide “Design and Construction Street in Long Island City. David is a board member of Excellence Initiative” with the goal of raising the quality the LIC Partnership and Chairman of the LIC BID. of design and construction of public works throughout New York City. Ebony Conely-Young Neil Gagliardi MSOL, Long Island City YMCA New York City Department of Ebony Conely-Young is the Executive Director of the Transportation Long Island City YMCA. She has worked diligently with YMCA’s across the country holding positions with Y-USA Neil Gagliardi, APA, ASLA, is the Director of as Co-founder of the Emerging Leaders Group, AYP Urban Design at the New York City Department of National Board of Director’s, and working as a Group Transportation (NYCDOT) where he offers more than Executive with the Y’s in Indiana. She is an advocate 30 years of interdisciplinary design and planning for youth development, healthy living, and social experience. During his seven-year tenure at NYCDOT, responsibility. She believes that serving people is her he has spearheaded design initiatives that foster ultimate purpose in life and she is able to execute that pedestrian-friendly, visually-appealing and sustainable on a daily basis. Ebony is a board member of the LIC streetscapes, public spaces and transportation corridors Partnership. citywide.

Katie Denny Horowitz Tracy Hadden Loh Socrates Sculpture Park/LICCA George Washington University/WalkUP Katie Denny Horowitz joined Socrates Sculpture Park Tracy Hadden Loh is a data scientist at the Center in 2013 with over ten years of experience in grant- for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at the George making and development in both the private and public Washington University School of Business. Prior to sectors. Prior to joining the Park, she was the Director joining GW, she was the director of research at the Rails- of Development for New Yorkers for Parks, a citywide to-Trails Conservancy. Her research focuses measuring advocacy organization, where she led overall fundraising the value of the elements of placemaking, and the efforts to champion an equitable and accessible parks Center’s recent report on the economic performance and system. She was the inaugural Director of Special social equity of walkable places in the New York metro Projects at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs from region can be found at www.walkups.org/metrony/. 2005-2011. Katie holds a MPA from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management and Public Policy. Retail as Placemaking: Leveraging New Demand and Learning from Successes Bartos Screening Room 10:00AM - 11:00AM

Beginning in 2017, LIC will see a huge increase in residents, tourists and workers, and several hundred thousand square feet of retail coming on line. LIC needs the basics: drug stores, more super markets, hardware stores, and household goods, but LIC’s success depends on much more. How can we create the social spaces and community infrastructure that provide neighborhood amenities, support recreation and encourage social interactions? Key to the vibrancy of street life is its retail mix and critical mass. How do we get there? Hear from local stakeholders and local and international experts.

Patricia Dunphy (Moderator) Melissa Burch Rockrose Lendlease Patricia Dunphy is Senior Vice President of leasing Melissa Burch is Executive General Manager for the and development at Rockrose Development Corp. and Lendlease Americas Development business. She leads the retail leasing and residential acquisitions joined the firm in 2015 and heads all acquisition and departments, most recently focusing on Court Square. development activities in the New York market. Prior Patricia pioneered a neighborhood on the waterfront in to joining Lendlease, Melissa served as Executive Vice LIC, bringing a gourmet grocer, wine shop, pharmacy President for Forest City Ratner Companies where she and restaurants to the area. Patricia is Second Vice oversaw commercial and residential development. She Chair of the Board of the LIC Partnership. led the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, a 22- acre site comprised of the Barclays Center and 8 million square feet of new housing, office, retail space, and an 8-acre park. She proudly serves on the Boards of the Henry Street Settlement, The Coro New York Leadership Center and the Citizen’s Budget Commission.

Donna Drimer Aaron Fishbein Matted LIC Winick Realty Donna Drimer is the founder of MATTED LIC, a As Director of Retail Real Estate at Winick Realty Group renowned Long Island City-based gallery featuring the LLC, Aaron Fishbein specializes in Owner/Retailer work of local artists, eclectic jewelry, and distinctive Representation and Advisory Services throughout handmade gifts. In 2017, MATTED LIC was recognized Long Island City, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Over the in a TIME OUT magazine readers’ poll as the “Best past several years, Aaron and his team have been Gallery in LIC.” She is proud to be recognized as one instrumental in growing Winick Realty Group’s presence of the founding members of Long Island City Women in LIC, consulting on and leasing more new development in Business. Ms. Drimer is a graduate of SUNY-Buffalo retail space than any other brokerage firm. Aaron and and resides in Long Island City. She is married with two his team completed the leasing efforts on behalf of TF daughters. Cornerstone, Related Companies, Lightstone Group, World Wide Group, Meadow Partners to name a few. Aaron is a member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City and the Long Island City Partnership Retail Committee. Amber Jacobsen Natalia Macias Toby’s Estate Tishman Speyer In 2011, Amber Jacobsen and business partner Adam Natalia Macias is responsible for Tishman Speyer’s Boyd decided to go on a coffee adventure in New York. 1.5-million-square-foot retail leasing portfolio in Their vision was for a roasting company that sourced New York, including Rockefeller Center. Ms. Macias and roasted quality specialty coffee and delivered joined the company in 2004 as part of the Leadership exceptional education and service. After securing a Development Program, where she was involved in capital space in Williamsburg, Adam and Amber opened the raising and Chicago office leasing efforts. Prior to joining doors to Toby’s Estate Coffee in 2012. Over the past five Tishman Speyer, she worked in the investment banking years Toby’s has grown to include over 200 wholesale division of Merrill Lynch & Co. Ms. Macias received a partners, and four additional retail locations across New BA in economics from the University of Chicago and York City with Long Island City being its most recent. an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. LIC’s Residential Evolution: Preparing for the Next Waves Redstone Theater 11:15AM - 12:15PM

Adding to the 11,000 units gained over the past decade, 2017-18 will see close to 10,000 new units coming on line and an additional 12,000 plus on their way. Originally conceived as an area for young single people working in Manhattan, LIC has quickly become a destination of choice for families, empty nesters and local workers, as well as commuters. How is the next round of developments adjusting to reflect these demographics (unit sizes, layouts, amenities, ownership options) and do we anticipate future demand shifting? How do we integrate our new and existing communities?

Alan Suna (Moderator) Zachary Adler Silvercup Properties The Durst Organization Alan Suna is an architect, real estate developer- Zachary Adler is the Director of Transactions for Silvercup Properties and co-owner of Silvercup Studios The Durst Organization, supervising the team that in Long Island City. Among the projects that Silvercup underwrites and executes the firm’s acquisition, Properties have done include the Industry and currently financing and other transactional activities. Since joining under construction The Harrison, both on 44th drive in The Durst Organization, he has been involved with LIC. Silvercup Studios has been home to such popular several significant transactions including the financing TV series as 30 Rock, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, of 855 Avenue of the Americas and 625 West 57th and The Sopranos -- movies including The Devil Wears Street, and the acquisitions of Halletts Point, 1800 Park Prada and When Harry Met Sally -- and over 1,000 TV Avenue, Queens Plaza Park, and the Piers at Penn’s commercials. Current television productions at Silvercup Landing. Zachary holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate include: CBS’s Elementary and Madam Secretary, HBO’s from New York University and graduated from Emory Divorce, TV Lands’ Younger and ABC’s Quantico. Alan is University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. a board member of the LIC Partnership Eric Benaim L. Stephen Hill Modern Spaces AIA, Hill West Architects Eric Benaim is Founder of Modern Spaces, the leading L Stephen Hill co-founded Hill West Architects to real estate brokerage and marketing firm in LIC. In just provide clients with an architectural firm focused on 9 years, Eric has expanded to offices in LIC, Manhattan, superlative quality for highly functional buildings. With Astoria, and Brooklyn. Modern Spaces has captured more than 25 years of experience, Hill’s designs have 70% of the market share of LIC and has successfully made a significant contribution to the NYC skyline. marketed over $4 billion in sales. Eric is a board Known for his expert and efficient layouts and clear, member of the LIC Partnership. concise vision, Hill has crafted a variety of buildings, from high-rise residential towers and mixed-use hotels, to retail spaces, historic renovations and adaptive re-use projects. In addition, his work has expanded to private Aaron Shirian residences and commercial office space. His recent work Lions Group NYC includes 161 Maiden Lane and One Riverside Park. Aaron Shirian is a Managing Director at Lions Group NYC, a family business owned and run by the Shirian John Young Family. Lions Group is a residential developer with over 1 million square feet of Long Island City housing New York City Department of developed or in the pipeline. As Lions Group began City Planning building in Long Island City in 2004, Aaron has had a front row seat to substantial growth and the John Young has been the Director of New York City transformation that has taken place. Aaron serves on the Department of City Planning’s Queens Office since board of the Long Island City BID. He has also worked October 2000. He has shaped numerous planning extensively to aid the development of the community initiatives that build upon the borough’s strengths of its with work on the retail committee and lighting broad and diversified economy and highly appealing and committee. Additionally Aaron works in concert with city growing neighborhoods. These efforts primarily have agencies on the beautification of the neighborhood. focused on supporting expanding economic and mixed- income housing opportunities in three important regional centers – Long Island City, Jamaica, and Flushing. LIC’s Innovation, High Tech, and Advanced Manufacturing Economy Bartos Screening Room 11:15AM - 12:15PM While other cities are just learning of the economic benefits of creating innovation-rich mixed-use environments, LIC’s innovation economy is homegrown. How can we support and grow our diverse businesses, designers, and innovators; and how can we encourage greater interaction between them and with the larger community? What public and private spaces are needed to cultivate innovation and community activities that make innovation districts greater than the sum of their parts? How can we strengthen our training programs and better match residents with local businesses? Carol Conslato (Introduction) Paula Kirby Con Edison Plaxall Carol Conslato is the Director of Public Affairs for Paula Kirby is Managing Director of Plaxall, a pioneering Con Edison and is responsible for community and innovator in the thermoforming industry and a third- government relations. She has held key management generation family business which owns and manages roles at Con Edison in Corporate Planning, Energy over a million square feet of property in LIC. Prior to Efficiency, and Economic Development. Carol is a Vice joining Plaxall in 2014, Paula worked in Europe for Chair of the board of the LIC Partnership. over 20 years, notably as Head of Marketing for Prada based in Milan, and as Deputy Director of Prada UK and Melva Miller (Moderator) Head of Licensing for Alfred Dunhill while in London. A Queens native who grew up in Forest Hills, Paula serves Deputy Queens Borough President on the Board of Trustees of the Queens Museum as Vice Melva Miller was appointed Deputy Borough President in Chair, the Board of Advisors of Mount Sinai Queens, and 2015 after serving as Director of Economic Development the Board of the Long Island City BID. since 2007 for the Queens Borough President’s Office. Miller leads and supports the economic development agenda for the Borough President’s Office, from business and job development, to housing to quality-of- Kate Wittels life to tourism and culture. HR&A Advisors Ron Brachman Kate Wittels is a principal at HR&A Advisors and specializes in planning and creating public-private Cornell Tech partnerships within the tech and creative economies. From Queens, New York to Sydney, Australia, she has Ron Brachman is the Director of the Jacobs Technion- advised municipal entities and private tech and creative Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. Before coming to organizations on how to grow local tech ecosystems, Cornell Tech, Professor Brachman had a career in create innovation districts, and ensure tech’s economic research and leadership at Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, benefits are accessible to all, regardless of income level DARPA, and Yahoo Labs. Professor Brachman has a B.S. and social capital. Kate earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban At Harvard, and throughout his career, his research Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in interests focused on Artificial Intelligence. Brooklyn with her husband and two young children. Jeff Merritt City of New York - Peter Weijmarshausen Mayor’s Office of Tech and Innovation Shapeways Jeff Merritt prides himself on holding jobs that his family has trouble explaining. He began his career Peter Weijmarshausen is the CEO and Co-Founder of in war-torn former Yugoslavia, helping support local Shapeways, the world’s leading 3D printing marketplace democracy-building. After living in New York during and community. Prior to Shapeways, Peter was the 9/11, he decided to refocus his efforts at home, leading CTO of Sangine, where he and his team designed and a good government organization called the Center for developed satellite broadband modems. Peter was Civic Responsibility then founding Grassroots Initiative, also Director of Engineering at Aramiska, where he the nation’s first nonprofit election consulting firm. Jeff was responsible for delivering a business broadband made his first foray into city government in 2009 when service via satellite. Earlier in his career, Peter worked he helped organize the first online public elections in as ICT manager for Not a Number where he facilitated U.S. history in partnership with the NYC Department of the adoption of the widely successful open source 3D Education. The following year, he became an advisor to software Blender. Peter was born and raised in the then Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Netherlands and moved to New York City in 2010. Keynote Panel: Returning to the Regional Context Redstone Theater 12:45PM - 1:45PM

This panel of citywide and state level civic leaders will bring together the many threads of innovating community that will be explored during the day, and also address important jobs, training, and education issues. What are the opportunities provided by new innovation industries, new city and state initiatives, and new educational models, and how can LIC best leverage them?

Joshua Schneps (Introduction) Jonathan Bowles (Moderator) Schneps Communications/ Center for an Urban Future LIC Flea & Food Jonathan Bowles is the Executive Director of the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based Joshua Schneps is the Founder and President of think tank dedicated to independent research about LIC Flea & Food and Astoria Flea & Food markets. key policy issues facing New York and other cities. Joshua Schneps is also Co-Publisher of Schneps During his eighteen years at the Center, he has been Communications, the largest privately owned publisher the architect of the policy agenda for the Center and of community newspapers, magazines, local websites is responsible for making it one of New York’s most and business events serving the boroughs of Queens and innovative and influential organizations and one in Brooklyn. which its policy ideas are well-respected and widely used by policymakers, business leaders, and nonprofit practitioners. Winston Fisher Gail Mellow Fisher Brothers LaGuardia Community College Winston C. Fisher, Partner at Fisher Brothers, a Dr. Gail O. Mellow has served as President of LaGuardia 100-year-old real estate firm based in New York City, Community College in Long Island City, Queens since directs the company’s financing and investing activities, 2000. A member of the City University of New York property acquisitions and dispositions, and oversees all (CUNY) system, LaGuardia is a nationally recognized new development initiatives. leader among community colleges for achieving boundary-breaking success educating underserved Mr. Fisher is the Co-Chair of Governor Cuomo’s NYC students. Regional Economic Development Council and serves on the board of several leading New York institutions An expert on the history, development and future of the including the Real Estate Board of New York, the American community college, Dr. Mellow co-authored Partnership for New York City, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the Space Museum and Syracuse University. American Community College (Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd ed. 2014) and the new book Taking College He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Teaching Seriously: Pedagogy Matters! (Stylus, 2015). Syracuse University, class of ’96. She is frequently sought as a commentator on the changing landscape of higher education, strategies for improving the nation’s graduation rate and the important Angela Sung-Pinsky role community colleges play in growing America’s middle class and strengthening the economy. She has ABNY been quoted in a range of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg As Executive Director, Angela is dedicated to promotion BusinessWeek and has appeared on national radio and of New York City and civic dialogue through the television broadcasts on NPR, MSNBC and PBS. expansion and evolution of ABNY’s membership, as well as ABNY’s signature power breakfasts. Dr. Mellow received an A.A. from Jamestown Community College, a B.A. from SUNY Albany, where she graduated Prior to joining ABNY, Angela served as Senior Vice Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.A. and Ph. D. in Social President for Management Services and Government Psychology from George Washington University. Dr. Affairs at the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Mellow is a board member of the LIC Partnership. where she was responsible for REBNY’s commercial and residential Management Divisions and the lead on building code, sustainability and energy, and federal issues that impact New York City real estate. Ms. Pinsky holds a B.A. in Public Health, Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s in Urban Planning from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. About LIC Partnership LIC Partnership is the neighborhood development organization for Long Island City (LIC). Our mission is to advocate for economic development that benefits the area’s industrial, commercial, tech, cultural, tourism, and residential sectors. The goal is to attract new businesses to LIC, retain those already here, welcome new residents and visitors, and promote a vibrant and authentic mixed-use community.

What we do

Plan for the success of LIC as a Provide direct supplemental mixed-use community with fellow services for the LICBID, including local stakeholders. daily sanitation, maintenance of capital improvements, visitor programs, and retail attraction.

Provide business services Host networking, educational, B2B and assistance through operating and community events. the Long Island City Business Improvement District (LICBID) and LIC Industrial Business Zone (LICIBZ).

Act as central source of Long Connect and support businesses Island City neighborhood news, through events, membership, attractions and events through sponsorship, branded LIC maps our website, social media, and weekly and street banners, and the e-newsletter. Partnership Perks discount program. Be Involved

Be a part of LIC Partnership through membership, marketing and networking opportunities, events, sponsorships, and programs.

Membership • Join as a Member: Be a part of LIC Partnership as a Member and take advantage of benefits including significant discounts to all LICP events, marketing, access to our Membership Directory, and more. Access Business Assistance • Reach out to our Business Assistance team: Schedule a free evaluation. Events & Sponsorship • Become an Annual Sponsor: Choose a bundled Annual Sponsorship to yield ongoing visibility throughout the year, including at our events, and maximize your contribution. • Sponsor an Event: Promote your business or organization at one of our many networking nights, panel events, and conferences throughout the year. Neighborhood Marketing • Offer a Partnership Perk: Partnership Perks is a free program of offerings from retailers, service providers, cultural institutions, and more, exclusively for LIC community members. • Brand Neighborhood Banners: Promote your business to hundreds of thousands of people per day with your logo prominently displayed on LICP neighborhood banners that brighten the area. • Sponsor LIC Maps: Make your mark by sponsoring the official Long Island City maps, created by NYC Department of Transportation’s WalkNYC program. LIC Comprehensive Plan Last year, thanks to key support from stakeholders, government, and private foundations, we completed Phase I of LIC’s first-ever Comprehensive Plan. Phase I collected and synthesized large amounts of data from various sources, including a survey of our 6,600+ businesses and organizations. This process provided us with real data and invaluable insights from our residents and businesses. The resulting Key Findings laid the ground work for nine general policy Recommendations that will now guide our Phase II work.

An overarching goal is to connect LIC’s growing population, cultural organizations, and diverse businesses to create a 24/7 community where innovation and community merge.

Today’s Summit Innovating Community builds upon LIC’s great assets and is a direct outgrowth of the Plan’s Key Findings and Recommendations (see the following pages). It also serves as an official kick-off of our Phase II work.

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Thank you to all who have participated to date and especially to the following for their pivotal support:

• NYS Senator Michael Gianaris • NYC Regional Economic Development Council • NYS Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan • NYC Economic Development Corporation • NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito • Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., Inc. • NYC Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer • Cornell Tech • Queens Borough President Melinda Katz • Ford Foundation • Empire State Development • TD Charitable Foundation • Verizon Foundation KEY FINDINGS

1. LIC’s location, mixed-use character, cultural vibrancy and the interdependence and collaboration among entities are its greatest assets.

2. Businesses and organizations across sectors are optimistic about their longevity in LIC and want to expand their operations here.

3. Sufficient availability of affordable and appropriately configured space is a challenge across sectors.

4. There is unmet demand for commercial office space.

5. Arts and culture and working artists are essential to LIC’s mix and vibrancy but interventions are needed to support their future in LIC.

6. Existing business incentive programs are not easily available to and are often insufficient for the businesses in LIC that need them most today.

7. Although the overall population in the study area showed increased income and educational attainment, persistent and substantial pockets of poverty remain.

8. Better connections are needed to link LIC’s low-income populations to the economic and cultural opportunities in the neighborhood.

9. Many parts of LIC feel disconnected from other parts of the neighborhood—or are very hard to navigate— creating barriers to movement and vitality.

10. Improved public transportation options, availability of parking for commercial activity and efficient vehicle movement are all economically vital to the area.

11. A diverse variety of local amenities and services are fundamental to maintaining a successful mix of businesses and organizations in LIC. RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Make incentive programs work for the businesses that need and want to be in LIC and look for creative ways to build more space for businesses.

2. Work with the City to incentivize new commercial office construction through appropriate zoning and incentives to serve pent-up demand, take advantage of new growth, and simultaneously reduce pressures on viable industrial and cultural space.

3. Capture and retain growing, entrepreneurial businesses in LIC to anchor their job creation here.

4. Increase opportunities for cultural institutions and artist to maintain and operate active, permanent spaces in LIC and expand the integration of arts and culture into the LIC urban fabric and communities.

5. Develop a strategy to foster a cluster of biotechnology, life sciences, and technology related industries in LIC by leveraging LIC’s relevant and unique advantages, anchoring an important sector for NYC.

6. Work to relieve parking strain on LIC businesses and organizations. Maintain truck and vehicular movement necessary for efficient business activity.

7. Work with transportation agencies to update routes and frequencies of buses and subways in order to move people within LIC from where they are to where they need to go.

8. Bridge neighborhood barriers and improve connections between sub-areas of LIC.

9. Maximize economic benefits for LIC residents and businesses. About Long Island City LIC Quickfacts - June 2017 170,000+ Residents 106,000+ Employees 6,600+ Businesses

To help inform the discussion today we present our June LIC Quick Facts. This is a sample of some of the neighborhood information we track. Find more at licqns.com/economicdevelopment to view our interactive Development Map, Space Bank and Market Reports.

Residential Development Commercial & Industrial Development Total units completed since 2006: 12,800+ 7M Square Feet Existing* Condominiums: 2,800+ Rental apartments: 10,000+ 3.7M Additional Square Feet by 2020** Total in planning/construction: 21,500+ *New buildings and renovated flex 2017 - 8,708 commercial since 2004 2018 - 1,697 **Announced 2019 and beyond - 11,598 Retail Development Hotel Development 265K+ Square Feet Existing Hotels currently operating: 31 465K+ Additional Square Feet by 2020** Hotels in planning/construction: 31 *Retail in mixed-use buildings and renovated commercial **Announced Current hotel rooms: 3,000+ Future hotel rooms: 3,900+

Neighborhood Amenities Major Business & Institutional Tenants 39+ arts & cultural institutions and venues 55,000+ students at higher education institutions 150+ restaurants, bars & cafes LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Law 10+ summer event series Major businesses include: 5 waterfront parks Boyce Technologies, Brooks Brothers, Citibank, J.Crew/Madewell, JetBlue, Kaufman Astoria Studios, Lyft, MetLife, NYC DOH, Connectivity/Transit Publicis/Re:Sources, Ralph Lauren, Silvercup Studios, Direct access to midtown Manhattan, Brooklyn, TEI Group, Uber Roosevelt Island, Bronx and Long Island 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines 13 Citibike shared bicycle stations NYC Ferry Service LIRR, 4 bridges, 1 tunnel

Population Change: 2000 2010 2015 LIC Comprehensive Plan Study Area 178,843 168,027 170,614

Central District (11101, 11109, 11120) 25,595 29,007 30,582

Triborough-South (11102, 11103) 80,612 72,913 74,502

Ravenswood (11106) 43,130 38,875 38,812

Sunnyside West (11104) 29,506 27,232 26,718 LIC Development Map

Legend Type of Development Completed Planned Per Dot Residential (since 2007) 100 units

Commercial Office 100K Sq. Ft.

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Weill Cornell Retail Development Medicine 265K+ Square Feet Existing 465K+ Additional Square Feet by 2020** The Dutch Rockefeller Roosevelt *Retail in mixed-use buildings and renovated commercial University Kills **Announced Island

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FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 718-784-1110 OR VISIT WWW.MODERNSPACESNYC.COM Officers Chairperson Gary Kesner Vice Chairperson Carol Conslato Silvercup Studios Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., Inc. First Vice Chairperson Kenneth Buettner Vice Chairperson Matt Quigley York Scaffold Equipment Corp. Plaxall, Inc. Second Vice Chairperson Patricia Dunphy Vice Chairperson Caryn Schwab Rockrose Development Corp. Mount Sinai Queens Secretary Robert S. Altman Vice Chairperson Gail A. Roseman Robert S. Altman, Esq., PLLC Sholom & Zuckerbrot Realty LLC

Treasurer Charles Sommer Vice Chairperson Elliot Park Public Service Truck Rental and Leasing Shine Electronics Incorporated Vice Chairperson John Werwaiss Werwaiss & Co. Inc. Board Bruce D. Abbott Benjamin Guttmann Seth Pinsky RCN Digital Natives Group RXR Realty Michelle Adams Ray Keane John Pollock Tishman Speyer Properties Z NYC Hotel People’s United Bank Denise Arbesu Shibber Khan John Reinertsen Citi Commercial Bank Criterion Group CBRE Erhan Bahceci Thomas P. Knierim Hal Rosenbluth Food Cellar & Co. Market Signature Bank Kaufman Astoria Studios, Inc. Omar A. Baptiste Andrew Kurd Henry Rosenwach Santander Savanna Rosenwach Tank Co., Inc. John Belo Molly Kurzius Josephine Savastano Kaplon-Belo Affiliates LLC MoMA PS1 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Eric Benaim Shih Lee Joshua Schneps Modern Spaces SHI Restaurant LIC Flea & Food David Brause John Maltz Jeremy Shell Brause Realty, Inc. Greiner-Maltz Company of New York, Inc. TF Cornerstone Chip Brian John Mast Greg Smith Best & Company JP Morgan Chase JRT Realty Group Gus Buitrago Margaret “Peg” McCue Guillon William Staples Flushing Bank MetLife Goodwill Industries Of Greater NY and Northern NJ, Inc. Mary Ceruti Gail O. Mellow Alan Suna Sculpture Center LaGuardia Community College Metro Management Development, Inc. Ebony Conely-Young Frank Monterisi, Jr. Betty Ann Tamberg Long Island City YMCA Related Companies, LP Astoria Bank Kevin J. Costello Mitchell E. Newman Louis Vlahos JetBlue Airways Corporation Mitchell’s NY Farrell Fritz, P.C. David Dishy Lidija Nikolic Jonathan White L+M Development Partners Bank of America White Coffee Corporation Richard Dzwlewicz Leslie Nilsson TD Bank Bartleby and Sage Event Planning

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