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Raymond L. Flynn CITY-WIDE MEETING Mayor
Donald A. Gillis COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT Executive Director PUBLIC HEARING
Monday, February 11, 1991 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. EDICj Boston EconomiC Development and Boston High School tndustnal Corporation Stuart J. Vidockler, Chmrman Kev1n C Phelan, V1ce Chmrman Marguerrte H. Connaughton Robert W. Consalvo AGENDA J.D. Nelson Arthur F F Snyder Fletcher H. Wiley
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Boston lndustnal Development I . Welcome and Overview of the services and programs Financ1ng Authonty Lawrence A. B1anch1 , Chmrman of the Economic Development a nd Industrial James H. Greene. Vice Chmrman Corporation of Boston Lee Jackson Mary C Nee BLOC Donald A. Gillis, EDIC Executive Director Boston Local Development Corporation John K O.neen, Pres1dent Donald A. Gillis, Vice Pres1dent I I Bnan F Dacey • The Importance of Human and Community Services to Charles Georgenes the City of Boston Michael Manzo Edward H. Pendergast Karen Powell Ga1l Snowden The Honorable Raymond L. Flynn SEC Mayor of Boston Boston Employment CommiSSIOn Knsten McCormack Thomas Mcintyre Nora Moran I I I . Review of the Community Development Block Grant Lyda Peters LUIS Prado program Waller W~liams NJT Edouard DeBity, Community Services Program Ne~ghbortlood Jobs Trust Councillor Thomas Memno Coordinator, EDIC Lee Jackson Nar!Cy Snyder BTC Boston Techn!Cal Center IV. Presentation of Mayor Flynn's Management Report Donald A. Glihs, Chmrman L1nda Campbell Marguente H. Connaughton John Riordan, Director, Mayor's Office of Wilham Doherty Thomas R. Howley Neighborhood Services M1chael O'Neal Carla Pina Arthur F.F. Snyder v. Community Testimony
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i1i ~ ~t 3-?t: l~ %? ~ ~ ~ ltj - Raymond L. Flynn TRANSPORTATION, TO/FROM EDIC PUBLIC MEETING Mayor NOVEMBER 14, 1991 Donald A. Gillis 6-8 p.m. Executive Director BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE BUILDING 26 COURT STREET ED/Cj Boston Economic Development and Industrial CorporatiOn StuBI1 J Vidocklor. Chairman FROM CHARLESTOWN: Kevlf1 C. Pl1elan. VIce Chairman Marguente H. COnnaughton Robert W. Consalvo Buses will pick up at 5:30 at: J D Nelson Arthur F F. Snyder KENNEDY CENTER SENIOR LOUNGE Fletcher H. Wiley , Esq. 55 BUNKER HILL STREET 8/DFA Boston Industrial Development Finanwg Authonty Lawrence A. Bianchi, Chairman James H. Greene, Vice Chairman FROM EAST BOSTON: Lee Jackson Bart J. Mttchell Mary C Nee Buses will pick up at 5:15 at: BLOC HARBORSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL Boston Local Development 312 BORDER STREET Corporat1011 John K. Dtneen. President Donald A. Gillis. Vice Prestdent Davtd J. Corttella, Esq. Bnan F Dacey Charles Georgenes John E. Marston FROM CHINATOWN: Edward H. Pendergast Karen Powell Gatl Snowden Buses will pick up at 5:30 at: iBEC QUINCY COMMUNITY SCHOOL Boston Employment Commisston Frank N Jones. Chrurman 885 washington street Knsten McCOrmack Thomas Mcintyre Nora Moran Lyda Peters LUIS Prado Walter Williams NJT ALL BUSES WILL DEPART THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE BUILDING Netghborhood Jobs Trust CounciHor Thomas Menin10 PROMPTLY AT 8 P.M. TO RETURN YOU TO THE PICK UP SITE IN Lee Jackson Nancy Snyder YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. BTC Boston Techntcal Center IF YOU NEED A RIDE TO THE MEETING, PLEASE CALL US AT 635- Donald A. Gillis, Chatrman Marguente H. Connaughton 5114 OR BE AT THE DESIGNATED PICK UP SITE IN YOUR William Doherty COMMUNITY AT LEAST 10 MINUTES BEFORE SCHEDULED DEPARTURE. Thomas R Howley, Esq. Michael O'Neal Arthur F F. Snyder Boston's Economic Development Agency ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION Investing in Human Development----Promoting Economic Self-Sufficiency Status Report and Funding Strategy Overview The Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (EDIC) is the City of Boston's economic development agency. EDIC's mission is to strengthen the public-private partnership to create jobs and income to be shared by all of Boston's residents. EDIC's economic development strategy integrates its development, financing, business assistance, job training, and human services programs in order to comprehensively promote economic health and growth for Boston and all of its neighborhoods. The merger of EDIC and the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services (JCS) in July of 1990 created an opportunity to build upon the strengths of JCS-funded programs to craft a coordinated and accessible system which promotes economic self-sufficiency for Boston residents. A systematic analysis of EDIC's job training, education, and support services programs has revealed a large number of effective, community-based programs, which offer valuable essential services to thousands of Boston residents. However, an environment of increasing need, combined with scarce resources, requires that EDIC and community-based organizations work together to develop new partnerships and an integrated system that more comprehensively meets the needs of Boston residents, families, businesses, and neighborhoods. The ten-year urban disinvestment policy pursued by the Federal government has taken a dramatic toll on Boston's employment and human service delivery systems. In 1981, the City of Boston received $27 million in Federal job training funds, along with $5 million in CD BG human service funds. In 1991, Boston's share of Federal job training funds had shrunk to $2.6 million, along with just over $3 million in CDBG funds. Structural changes in the economy of the Commonwealth have added to the barriers to economic self sufficiency for many Boston residents. Over the ten year period between 1981 and 1991, Boston's unemployment rate fluctuated between a low of 3.2% in 1987 to a peak this year of 9.2%. The erosion of 80,000 metropolitan Boston manufacturing jobs has been devastating to the employability of neighborhood residents, particularly to those with limited education and low skills. As problems in Boston and other major U.S cities mount, it is clear that improving service delivery and systems is not enough. The lack of resources, compounded by economic hard times, exacerbates the pressures upon our neighborhoods and their most vulnerable residents. EDIC and community-based organizations must continue to sound our message that current funding levels for education and human services programs hamper our ability to promote economic self-sufficiency for those whom we serve. "A new war must be waged. One which focuses on jobs and economic empowerment. Underserved communities must develop the capacity to create new jobs and econom1c benefits through their own enterprise." Mayor Raymond L. Flynn Despite substantial improvement in annual earnines of Massachusetts workers over the past decade. one in five Boston families continues to have incomes below the poverty line. At particular risk for poverty are children, families headed by a single parent, the disabled, linguistic minorities, the disabled, the homeless, and both youth and adults with low educational attainment. These populations, along with the elderly, will be the priority populations to be served under CDBG. A Three-Year StrateiO' to Promote Economic Self-Sufficiency 1990-91: EDIC took major steps to stabilize funding for priority areas in light of the history of Federal cutbacks. Maintaining local, as opposed to state, control of CDBG funding will ensure that local priorities are established and addressed. The emphasis on coordination of services which promotes the economic self-sufficiency of Boston families is featured in EDIC's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and Alternative Education programs funded in 1991. Hard to serve target populations such as linguistic minorities, the physically challenged, at-risk youth, BHA residents, minority males, and single heads of household were prioritized for services. New programmatic emphasis was placed upon pre-vocational services for adults, in order to remove barriers for many residents who required services which would prepare them for higher level skills training. Expanding internal and external capacity was also a priority in FY 91. Of the $1 million in increased Boston JTPA funding, over half was allocated to services to youth---25% of the increase went toward the development of pre-vocational training for adults. Increased employer involvement in skills training programs will help to ensure that participants will receive training which is corresponds to the requirements of the industry. In order to enhance the ability of local organizations to deliver services, new collaboratives were developed and additional resources were leveraged. A Neighborhood Jobs Trust (NJT) request for job training proposals in the fall of 1990 included an emphasis on linkages among skills training programs, employers, and human service providers. NJT funds were designated as resources to fill service gaps for populations identified as difficult to serve, including out-of-school youth, the working poor, and minority males. Utilizing $400,000 of available linkage funds, EDIC successfully expanded the capacity of our resources by leveraging $1 million in private matching funds for twelve new and innovative job training programs serving over 1,000 Boston residents. EDIC has retooled its program management system and service area priorities in response to input from thousands of groups and individuals. The EDIC internal systems reviews and reorganization has been complemented by a series of community hearings and meetings held in ten neighborhoods during 1990. These hearings were conducted in order to hear first- 2 hand from Boston residents and employers their perceptions of problems affecting them, their families, and their neighborhoods---and to identify the role of the economic development agency in meeting these needs. Also during 1990, EDIC began a series of discussions with other key local funders, including foundations, corporate funders, and public agencies, in order to examine how service delivery could be enhanced through collaborative planning. This year, by working closely with the Boston Foundation, city departments, and the Healthy Boston program, we are participating in a series of focus groups and community meetings to continue to hear residents' perceptions of their neighborhoods' human services, education, economic development, and family support needs. One desired outcome of this approach will be the fostering of neighborhood-based coalitions which will identify problems, plan solutions, advocate for change, and coordinate services at the most local level. In 1991-1992, EDIC will continue to concentrate its efforts to promote economic self sufficiency to youth and other groups by maximizing resources and promoting public-private community based collaboratives. A major focus in 1991-92 is the fostering of partnerships among key employers in emerging industries and local training organizations. An example of the collaborative approach is EDIC's leveraging of over $1 million in Department of Medical Security funding to develop thirteen training and support services programs which will prepare over 650 Boston residents for careers in the health care industry. The programs feature partnerships among major Boston teaching hospitals, community-based organizations, the Boston Public Schools, and higher education institutions. These partnerships will focus their efforts on youth, the working poor, linguistic minorities, and the physically challenged. The effectiveness of public-private partnerships in expanding the capacity of the employment and training system has been established. Collaboration among agencies and organizations has been shown to result in delivering more integrated services to clients. Given the need to continue to expand capacity and leverage additional resources, while meeting residents' needs more comprehensively, EDIC will encourage collaboration and partnerships in the CDBG program. 1992-1993: An integral component of EDIC's strategy is the integration of human service programs with economic development activities such as development, financing, and business assistance. By strengthening the relationship between job training/human service providers and Boston's major employers, by nurturing the growth of neighborhood businesses, and by promoting Boston as a good location for manufacturing business, EDIC will continue to work toward the objective of promoting economic self-sufficiency for Boston residents. Simultaneously, through public-private partnerships with key employers in emerging industries, EDIC will provide Boston businesses with ready access to a high quality pool of well-trained workers. The CDBG program provides resources and a programmatic foundation which supports an 3 economic self-sufficiency system for Boston residents. By targeting CDBG resources toward removing educational and social barriers to residents' economic self-sufficiency, while linking CDBG to other EDIC economic development tools, we hope to substantively improve the economic and social well-being of low-income families and communities. In 1992-93, we will continue to aim toward realizing a critical mass of service delivery which meets greater number of residents' needs more comprehensively and over longer periods of time. These objectives are: • Identify gaps in service, and support and develop programs which use an integrated services approach to individual clients, families, and communities • Integrate CDBG, JTPA, JOBS, and other public funds to develop a greater capacity for organizations to serve a maximum number of Boston residents. • Leverage additional resources by working together with other key local funders, universities, and national foundations in areas of identified need and in targeted neighborhoods. • Continue to forge new collaboratives and partnerships, including key industry collaboratives in job growth areas. • Continuously monitor program performance in order to improve accountability, responsiveness, and effectiveness. The overall goal of these objectives is to eliminate fragmentation of services in order to develop an integrated, accessible, and comprehensive system which offers hope and promotes economic self-sufficiency for all of Boston's residents. 4 FY 92 EDIC Funding Priorities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Service providers who demonstrate, through collaboration and linked services, a comprehensive approach to individuals', families', and communities' economic self sufficiency needs, will receive the highest priority for funding. Cate~:ories in order of priorities; 1. Education A. Adults B. Youth 2. Child Care 3. Support Services: linked, integrated services which promote economic self-sufficiency Priority Low-to-Moderate Income Tar~:et Populations: 1. Youth 2. Working Families 3. Linguistic Minorities 4. Persons with Disabilities 5. Homeless 6. Elderly 5 Eliminatin2 Barriers to Economic Self-Sufficiency: 1992-93 CDBG FUNDING PRIORITIES: EDIC has identified three major barriers to economic self-sufficiency: low educational attainment, insufficient child care resources, and a lack of coordination of support services. Our 1992 CDBG funding priorities reflect the level of effort which will be required to address these barriers. I. Education: This year, we encourage the development of education programs move individuals and families toward greater economic self-sufficiency. Education programs which link services for youth, worldng families, and linguistic minorities must be structured to meet those populations' multiple needs. In particular, program models which address the learning needs of families, and link vital services such as childcare and counseling into a vocationally oriented education program are required. Pre-vocational youth education and career exploration programs which feature extensive counseling, and incorporate clients' employment needs, are also needed. The economic and social well-being of families and communities in Boston has become increasingly associated with educational attainment of heads of family and their spouses. As the local economy continues to be dominated by the growth of "knowledge-based" industries such as health care, biotechnology, and environmental industries, job seekers with limited educational attainment or low occupational sldlls are at a substantial competitive disadvantage. Unfortunately, lack of a strong core vocational education program hampers the career mobility of many Boston residents who could most benefit from vocational technical training. Nearly half of the low-income adults in Boston have less than a high school diploma, in contrast to the non-poor, of whom nearly 60% have some education beyond high school. Similarly, half of Boston families headed by persons lacldng a high school diploma live in poverty, as compared to 22% of families headed by a person with a high school diploma. Families which are headed by a college graduate have a poverty rate of only 2%. The highest family poverty rates are experienced by single-parent families headed by women with less than a high school diploma. Those low-income Boston residents with limited English-spealdng skills are at even greater 6 risk for living in poverty. For example, of the 65% of low-income Hispanics who are high school dropouts, over half possess insufficient English-language skills based upon a study done by the Boston Foundation. In contrast, only 12% of Boston Hispanic high school graduates have insufficient English language skills, and 70% speak "good" or "very good" English. Mean hourly wages of high school graduates in Boston ($8.33) are 25% higher than the mean hourly wages of high school dropouts. The mean hourly wages for those with some college ($9.29) are over 35% higher, while college graduates ($15) attain mean hourly wages nearly three times those of high school dropouts. Industry-sponsored research shows that less than 60% of high school seniors read at levels considered adequate for carrying out even moderately complex tasks. In Boston in 1991, even the attainment of a high school degree does not guarantee the recipient the skills required by many technology-based occupations. Pilot CDBG programs should offer many Boston residents a "second chance" to improve their basic skills and receive relevant vocational education, complemented by strong support services, which enhances economic self-sufficiency and social well-being. From an economic development perspective, the prospect of increasing numbers of Boston residents with limited educational attainment and low skills threatens to neutralize the region's competitive advantage as a growth center for new and emerging industry. The availability of a flexible, well-educated, and trainable workforce plays an increasingly important role in industry recruitment and retention. The Boston area, rich in higher education resources, is in danger of losing opportunity to foreign and domestic competitors if we continue to neglect the development of our own human resources. EDIC estimates that current adult basic skills, literacy, and English-as-a-Second-Language programs serve fewer than 4% of all Boston residents who could benefit from such programs. These estimates of capacity correspond roughly to those across the Commonwealth, and across the nation as well. Although many existing programs offer high quality education services to residents, their effectiveness is neutralized by a lack of coordination with skills training programs and essential social seivices. A few programs are linked to career development or occupational skills---successful models of this type need to be expanded or replicated. II. Child Care: Lack of access to child care resources has been shown to be an enormous barrier, particularly to single parents, to both educational attainment and participation in the labor force. Female heads of household with one or more children are at greatest risk of heading families living in poverty. Seventy per cent of low-income Boston residents who use child care other than that of a spouse rely on friends or relatives rather than a formal child care service. Almost half of Boston parents of school-aged children use a complicated patchwork of child care arrangements. 7 Child care must be consistent and of good quality if it is to have value. It should be affordable, accessible, and flexible to allow for the conflicting demands of school, work, and commuting. It should offer structure, continuity, education, and recreation to promote the emotional and social development of children served. Because of state funding cuts, neither adequate capacity nor continuous systems of child care can be developed and maintained. Over 65% of Boston parents of school-aged children are employed or in training programs. The vast majority of these parents are unable to be home when their child returns from school. In many homes, adults must leave for work or training before their children leave for school. Recent studies reveal that a high percentage of low-to-moderate income women would seek employment or enter school or training if school-age child care were available. Nearly half of Boston parents would like to see after-school programs offered in their child's school. Despite the obvious need, however, almost 35% of parents seeking child care have been unable to find it over the past two years. This year's CDBG priorities include child care services to working families, to young, single parents enrolled in education or training programs, and to parents with middle-school aged children. As in education programs, linkages to other services such as job training and literacy are a high priority. Programs which offer a "surround care" model to children of working parents are in need, along with after-school programs offered in the school building. Of particular interest are model programs which utilize an intergenerational approach such as utilizing the capacity of our elderly Boston residents as child care resources for education or training program participants. III. Coordination of Support Services: Boston residents encounter multiple barriers to economic self-sufficiency in addition to low skills and educational attairunent, and unavailability of child care. Low educational attainment correlates highly with poverty, and high percentages of children who have learning difficulties have parents with low educational attainment. Violence continues to plague many Boston neighborhoods, while substance abuse and the allure of illicit drugs is entangled in the web of poverty. Lack of opportunity becomes a reinforcing cycle. Counseling and support services which assist Boston residents in dealing with the stresses associated with poverty, including drugs, AIDS, violence, and the pressures of parenting, is a necessary support to promote economic and social well-being. The CDBG system must be a lifeline of support for low-income families and working parents. Programs which offer healthy alternatives, particularly during after-school hours, for Boston youth are a high priority. Programs which build self-esteem and foster discipline, such as after-school sports and recreation, performing arts, and tutoring/educational counseling are in great demand in nearly every Boston neighborhood. 8 The CDBG system can also support the educational and vocational progress of Boston residents by supporting programs which address their needs for career information and goal setting. Many Boston residents report that they receive little if any guidance regarding the availability of educational services. Few Boston residents with less than a high school diploma have knowledge of the skills and education requirements of high-demand careers in growing industries such as health care. CDBG social service programs which are closely linked to educational and career counseling into their services will better serve their clients than those which operate in isolation. Because of their specific needs, and the importance of supporting a continuum of services which enable Boston's elderly population to be self-sufficient, elderly services continue to be a CDBG priority. Boston's elderly generally remain an untapped resource for promoting positive growth in their communities. lntergenerational programs which foster economic self-sufficiency for families, such as elderly tutoring programs, are of particular importance. When services do exist in a neighborhood, we cannot assume that they are appropriately used by those residents who need them. The Boston Foundation reports that nearly three quarters of all low-income Boston residents surveyed stated they are not familiar with any community group or organization in their neighborhood. In many Boston neighbhorhoods, the arrival of new immigrants, accompanied by an exodus of more established families, has resulted in a high level of social disorganization. This disorganization manifests itself in residents, particularly newcomers, not knowing of the existence of programs, or feeling overwhelmed by their life circumstances. In some cases, the lack of a culturally sensitive referral system may be the problem. In other neighborhoods, turf issues may result in competition for clients, while in still others, adequate services may not be available. With the goal of improving delivery of integrated, multiple services to Boston residents, EDIC is hopeful that CDBG funding will foster collaboration and coordination of neighborhood-based services which are responsive to the changing economic self-sufficiency needs of residents and the community. EDIC, in conjunction with other city agencies, Healthy Boston, and the Boston Foundation, will give high priority to service providers who demonstrate that genuine cooperation and collaboration have occurred at the neighborhood level. Programs which address the multiple needs of low-income residents and, particularly, families, through cooperative linked services are building capacity which is needed in order to break down barriers to economic self-sufficiency. 9 t i i' . l I II EDIC - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS FY91 Emerg. ShIt. Health Care 113,687 3% 206,366 6% -----"""'""'-- ( 8 P ro g r am s ) Counseling 771,035 22% Youth (37 Programs) 639,181 19% (26 Programs) Elderly 227,199 7% (7 Programs) Child Care 627,724 18% (20 Programs) Adult Literacy 565,800 16% Education (9 Programs) 285,702 8% (11 Programs) TOTAL $=3~4361694 121 PROGRAMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION FY91 FUNDINGS OMS 4 71,186 4% DPW CDBG 2,046,432 15% 3,436,694 26% JT PA - ADULT BOP 1,7 16,682 13% 307,796 2% ADU LT ED. 1,271,864 10% REFUGEE 772,461 6% JTPA - YOUTH 2,081,924 16% TIMELINE FOR CDffi PROCUREMENI' PROCESS (FY92) ACTICN Neighborhood Meetings: Allston/Brighton December 4, 1991 Council District 9 Jamaica Plain/ West Roxbury December 12, 1991 Council District 6 Mattapan/ North Dorchester December 13, 1991 Council District 4 South Boston/ South End January 7, 1991 Chinata.-m Council District 2 East Boston/ North End January 8,1991 Charlesto,..,rn Council District 1 Roslindale/ Hyde Park January 15, 1991 Council District 5 Back Bay/ Mission Hill January 17, 1991 Fenway Council District 8 Roxbury January 23, 1991 Council District 7 Dorchester January 24, 1991 Council District 3 Public Hearing February 11 1991 RFP draft February 20, 1991 Issue RFP March 6, 1991 Bidder's Conference March 13, 1991 Prop::>sals Due March 28, 1991 Award Letters May 22, 1991 Contract Negotiations May 29, 1991 Contract Execution July 1, 1991 -iftA wri1!. ~ Cbi11ese P1vgressive Association/Workers Ce11ter 164 Lincoln Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111 Tel: (617)357-4499 Fax: (617) 357-9611 for justice, democracy and equality FAX Cover Page To: rtMt[Q( f/J"-b , &BL-5 r c:Jnl: ~ Fax Number: {~l7) -p 7/-f~'Z--2-- Total Page Numbers: .3 Re: WhJ ?WA ~ i-£1 (5 (5 ~ f 1e~ ~~ - DjnJ'- G Present: Todd Lee (Community/Development Manager), Bic (Counselor), pf\-R.. Ann Wong, Lihbin Shiao Overview of One Stop Career Centers: • 2 centers openning now in Boston: 1) The WorkPlace (EDIC, Jewish Vocational Services, Higher Educational/BPL) & 2) Dimick Community Health, Women's Industrial Health Union, Goodwill Morgan Memorial. • Came about to address more middle to upper level income people's needs (people who vote). • Entry level point for revised Employment Training System, replaces DET Opportunity Job Training Program. • Process: Individual assessment of aptitude and interests followed by group services and/or referral/voucher for an "outside" training program. • Universal access to all income levels. Overview of The WorkPlace: • Languages currently available at WP: Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, French Creole, Portugese, English. • Currently WP has 20 employees, there will be 40 by Dec. 1996. • Currently DET refers people to The WorkPlace but when they become a One Stop they may not. Inclear where UI will be handled. Monica Halas (GBLS) says its unlikely to be at Department of Revenue. AFL-CIO proposal for a Department of Labor including Job Training, UI, and Dislocated Workers. • Workers Assistance Center as a EDIC program has been absorbed by the One Stop Centers. Absorption depends on the city. • The WorkPlace has not advertised much because they are not ready to handle a large group of clients. Currently, they only have 2 job developers and one is a manager who is busy trying to crosstrain counselors and other employees. • WP will try to provide an equal level of services for all income levels Differences between The WorkPlace and the Workers Assistance Center: 1) WP stress is on serving large numbers vs WAC stress on more in depth services with less people, i.e. WP goal: serve 1,100 people from 3/96-6/96, 2nd year 3,000 people, 3rd year 6,000 people vs WAC goal: serve 450 people for 1996. 2) WP will stress group services and self-directed services where clients can find what they need themselves. However, since most of the WAC staff came over to WP, the WP is trying to maintain some depth of service for people who have barriers to finding jobs. WP will probably have most depth of services of Boston One Stop's because of WAC history and because the One Stops are somewhat competitive in terms of their numbers. 3) Universal access including all income levels. Don't need to be a dislocated worker to go in for services. Other Changes: 1) WP services will include a combination of free services and fee based one on one services based on ability to pay. The WP will seek money from other public funding services to supplement their core budget so that more can be free. 2) The One Stops probably will not do their own trammg. The One Stops may initiate a voucher system where the client gets a referral with voucher to get ESL or occupational training elsewhere. WP recognizes the problem that there are very few places to send clients for training. i.e. WP will not offer ESL at their new address, but will continue to provide 4 cycles of ESL until July 1996 at old WAC site/33 Harrison, then 3 cycles of ESL for the year following or may contract out after July 1996. 3) Computerized self-service which includes job listings. Not that useful to those with low levels of literacy and computer skills, bee. listings are for those with a certain level of education. Anticipated Problems 1) Lower level of service for workers and clients with lower educational attainment levels. 2) High demand and long waiting lists for outside training programs especially for low income and immigrant ESL clients. 3) Competition bet. EDIC and DET One Stop Centers: EDIC near South Station & DET in Downtown resulting in a focus on numbers rather than depth of services. 4) Low utilization of One Stop Ctrs due to plush intimidating offices + potential lower level of service + some One Stops will not have full language capacity. 5) Scarcity of prevocational trammg, i.e. prior ESL provided by WAC. Limited eligibility for available jobs. .. • An Economic Development Program for the 1990's Boston's Economic Development Agency!EDIC "Without a seriDus and effective commitment to job cretltion, the future for America's cities will be very bletlk. There is no cure for despair that rivals the dignity ofa stetldy paycheck. We are fighting a war on drugs and despair today because we abandoned the war on poverty. A new war must be waged. One which focuses on jobs and economic empowerment. Underserved communities must develop the capacity to CTetlte new jobs and economic benefits through their own enterprise." Mayor Raymond L. Flynn May, 1990 Raymond L. Flynn Mayor Donald A. Gillis Executive Director EDIC/Boston Economic Developmert and lnilslrial Colpofation StUll! J. Vidodder. Chainnan KINin C. Phelan. V1C8 C11aiman lilargulrie H. Ccmauglton Robel! w. Consal'lo J.D. Nllllon Att1u F.F . Snyder ~cherH. WWf • f EDIC/Boston 1990 Donald A. Gillis Executive Director EDIC/Boston Ec0001111C Development and lndustnal CorporatJon Stuart J. Vldocl\lel , Chalmlan KeWl C. Phelan. VICe Charman Marguente H. Connaughton Aobell W Consalvo J D Nelson EDIC-builiding new opportunities for business and Arthur F F Snyder new jobs for neighborhood residents . Fletcher H. Wi 8/DFA Boston lndustnal Development FinanclllQ Authonty Lawrence A Eliardll. Chalmlan James H. Greene . Vice Chairman A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Lee Jackson Mary c. Nee Since my appointment as Executive Director of EDIC in February, I have BLOC Boston Local Development met with hundreds of business people, community leaders, workers, gov CorporabOn ernment officials and labor leaders to try to better understand how Boston's John K. Doneen. PreSident Donald A. G•IS. Vice PreSldent economic development agency, EDIC, might help to continue Boston's Aobell P Qpnan1 economic growth and development. Bnan F Dacey Charles Georgenes Micl1ael Manzo This document, "An Economic Development Program for the 1990's," Edward H. Pendergast Karen Powel reflects the many suggestions, requests for assistance, and insights provided Gai Snowden to me by the people I have had an opportunity to meet with over the past SEC several months. It is a working document which summarizes EDIC's Boston Employment CommiSSIOn history, mission, and work plan. Knsten McComlack Thomas Mcintyre Nora Moran Lyda Peters I hope you will take some time to read this document, both to become more LUIS Prado familiar with the resources offered by EDIC and to assist us in better Walter Williams refining our mission and work plan. One of our greatest priorities as a city NJT is to continue to build new opportunities for business and new jobs for Netghborhood Jobs Trust neighborhood residents. This mission statement reflects my commitment Colxdlor Thomas Menro Lee Jackson d the commitment of this agency to increasing and sharing Boston·s Nancy Snyder ec nomic prosperity. BTC Boston Techrncal Center Donald A. GM. Chairman l.Jnda Campbel Marguente H. Connaughton Wikam Doherty Thomas A. Howley Michael O'Neal Car1a f'1na Executive Dir tor Arthur F F Snyder t EDIC/Boston 1990 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CHALLENGES 7 EDIC'S HISTORY AND MISSION 8 EDIC'S WORKPLAN 10 I. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH l 10 l ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT II. FINANCING CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH 11 Ill. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH TRAINING 12 IV. RETAINING AND EXPANDING BUSINESS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES 15 DELIVERING EDIC'S SERVICES WITH A NEW ORGANIZATION 20 3 f EDIC/Boston 1990 t 4 r EDIC/Boston 1990 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For the past decade, Boston has experienced a boom economy which has spurred economic development, brought jobs to neighborhood residents, and helped the city build a solid financial foundation. Four important trends in the past year have challenged Boston's eco nomic future and call for new initiatives to continue Boston's economic growth. The tightening credit squeeze, a regional economic slow-down, the state fiscal crisis, and a con tinued media focus on Boston's crime and drug problems pose major challenges for Boston's leadership. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn is responding to the challenges facing Boston's economy with three initiatives to regain the momentum of the past decade. In cooperation with a roundtable of business, labor, and community leaders, the Mayor has targeted key eco nomic development projects to help spark economic activity and has initiated public and private initiatives to assist business development in the city. The Safe Neighborhoods Campaign is directly challenging the threatthatdrugs and crime pose to Boston's neighbor hoods by mobilizing community leaders, employers, educators, clergy and families to provide hope and opportunity for the youth of our city. The third component of Mayor Flynn's economic revitalization strategy is the re-organiza I tion of Boston's Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (EDIO to focus the city's resources to meet the challenges of continued economic growth. A re-organized and re~nergized EDlC will be an efficient and effective economic development agency, merging the job training and placement functions of the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services with the economic development, financing, and business develop ment functions of ED! C. The merger presents an opportunity to be bold and creative while working to make the vital connections between economic development and the important services provided to Boston residents. Boston's economic development agency, EDIC, with nearly two decades of experience, has defined a clear mission and set out an ambitious agenda to meet the economic challenges of the coming decade. EDIC's mission is to help strengthen the partnership between the public and private sectors to create jobs and income to be shared by all of Boston's residents. EDIC's work plan for the nineties has four components: I. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNIDES THROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Continued job and income growth will only occur by fully utilizing the available develop ment resour::es of the city. EDIC will undertake a focused four-year development program to turn va.:ant and underutilized development parcels into viable sites for business enterprises which can provide both construction and permanent jobs for Boston residents. 5 r EDIC/Boston 1990 II. FINANCING CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH: Boston cannot continue its economic growth without investment capital. EDIC will utilize its financing resources to help fill the gap left by the current credit crunch. EDIC's affiliate cor poration, the Boston Industrial Development Rnancing Authority (BID FA) will substantially increase its taxable and tax-exempt bond issuance activity to help finance key development projects in the "Boston Portfolio", major non-profit institutional projects such as medical and research facilities, and major cultural development projects. EDIC's second financing affiliate, the Boston Local Development Corporation (BLOC), will help provide desperately needed working capital and other financing for Boston's smaller businesses currently being 1·- squeezed out of the credit market. Ill. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH TRAINING: Effective job training and placement will play two important roles in continuing Boston's eco nomic growth. For Boston to remain a competitive location for new and expanding busi nesses, the city must be able to provide a well trained and educated labor force. Only effective job training and placement will allow Boston residents to maximize the economic benefits of business growth. The merger of EDIC and the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services (jCS) offers an unusual opportunity to directly link development and business retention efforts with a trained labor force resource. EDIC will catlyze the creation of new job training efforts such as a Health Careers Academy, and a consolidated social service, skills training and vocational education system. The merger will also permit a comprehensive effort to expand job and business opportunities for Boston residents, women and minorities. IV. RETAINING AND EXPANDING BUSINESS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES: While new development projects will be an important source of job opportunities, it is Boston's existing businesses which are and will continue to be the major source of employ ment for Boston residents. EDIC will undertake detailed industrial surveys and maintain an extensive data base to analyze business needs. With this data, EDIC will undertake a Business and Jobs Development Program to provide a coordinated set of services to Boston businesses, including space location, financing, job matching_ regulatory assistance, and business plan ning and analysis. Through a comprehensive Industrial Policy, EDIC will provide a set of services to protect employ~s impacted by plant closings, encourage worker ownership options, and encourage cooperative strategic planning and ventures within various indus tries. Continued economic growth requires moving beyond business retention to encourage diversification and the development of Boston and the region's growth industries. EDIC will undertake several initiatives to help capture the benefits of growth sectors such as medical manufacturing_ health care, and exports to Western Europe and Asia. These initiatives will include targeted recruitment within growth sectors and pro-active efforts to encourage foreign investment and export opportunities. 6 [ EDIC/Boston 1990 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CHALLENGES Boston stands at an economic crossroads. For the past The city's long term economic health faces two central decade, our economy has grown and diversified dramati investment challenges. The current state fiscal crisis is cally. Boston is a national center for financial transactions. sending discouraging signals to the investment commu With its concentration of sixty-five universities, and twenty nity, which is central to the continued growth of the econ five medical research institutions, the city stands at the omy. Simultaneously, the "credit crunch" brought on by forefront of new technologies and knowledge-based indus over-zealous federal regulatory efforts and souring loan tries. Boston is one of the most attractive centers of tourism portfolios has exacerbated the situation. Without invest in the country, and its breadth of economic strengths is ment capital, Boston's economy cannot continue to grow. reflected in its recent growth patterns. Between 1982 and Boston's manufacturing base, though still a major source of 1988, Massachusetts generated 700,000 net new jobs, and job opfX>rtunities for our residents, continues to shrink. personal incomewas the second highest in the nation. Between 1969 and 1988 alone Boston's manufacturing jobs The impressive economic growth of the past decade gave were reduced by half from 69,000 to 34,500. These statistics Boston one of the lowest inner-city unemployment rates in illustrate the imiX>rtance of a business retention strategy to the country. In 1989, Boston's unemployment rate was 3.9 keep jobs in Boston. In addition, our existing manufactur percent in contrast to the national rate of 5.3 percent and the ing base needs to grow and diversify by encouraging the state rate of 4.0. The poverty rate in Boston also fell over the growth of new manufacturing industries and recruiting past decade. Between 1980 and 1989, Boston fam ilies living growth industries to the city. at the poverty level fell from 18 to 11.5 percent at the same Boston's successful industries face the challenge of seeking time that family poverty rates rose in other large cities. out and securing new markets, both national and interna I While the economic boom was most visible downtown, tional, as well as developing new product lines to keep pace bridges of opportunity were built to the neighborhoods in with the fundamental economic changes brought by com the form of jobs, income and improved city services. petition and declining military budgets. Projections indi Yet, even with the impressive growth of the past decade, cate that Massachusetts should see a 10 percent annual Boston faces serious challenges to its economic future not increase in exports over the next several years. Boston firms unlike those facing all the major cities of the northeast. must be positioned to take full advantage of that growth. Labor force absence among young black males in Boston, The reduction in growth of the financial services industry, while significantly lower than the national rate of 43 per and the slowdown in the construction of new downtown cent, is still much too high at around 20 percent. Significant office space have serious repercussions which will ripple pockets of unemployment are a primary cause of the inner through the Boston economy. As we enter the 1990's new city drug trade and related crime which further undermine development initiatives will be critical to our economic neighborhood economies. This is a serious problem requir health, as will the jobs created by a more diversified uni ing dramatic solutions which increase basic skills and match verse of firms. unemployed residents with growth industries in the "new economy" through sophisticated research, new approaches CHANGE IN POVERTY RATES to vocational education and targeted job training. New BOSTON AND U.S. CENTRAL CITIES1980 & 1989 initiatives like these will require an aggressive search for Boston innovative sources of funding in the face of substantial o/o of 1980 Total o/o of 1989 Total federal and state cuts in job training funds. In 1980, Boston Families 18.0 11 .5 received $20 million for job training under the Federal Single People 17.2 3.5 Comprehensive Employment and Training A.ct (CET A). U.S. Central Cities Today, Boston receives approximately $2.5 million in fed o/o of 1980 Total o/o of 1989 Total eral job training funds. The City of Boston, through the Families 15.0 17.7 Neighborhood Jobs Trust currently provides more job train Single People 19.9 25.8 ing money for Boston than the federal government. Source: The Boston Foundation 7 r EDIC/Boston 1990 EDIC'S HISTORY AND MISSION During the past six years, as Boston experienced unprece powers were granted to the Boston Industrial Develop dented economic growth, the need for a focused public ment Financing Authority (BIDFA) to issue industrial economic development effort was secondary to the task revenue bonds. In addition the Boston Local Develop of steering and controlling growth for the benefit of ment Corporation (BLOC) was created to undertake Boston's residents. With the fundamental changes in small business lending. including SBA loans. The Boston Boston's economy, the city requires an effort which can Technical Center (8TC) was created to carry out job focus public policy, public resources, and private training and placement activities for the Marine Indus investment in a unified economic development program trial Park. for the nineties. Today, Boston's Economic Development Agency/ EDIC As Mayor Flynn noted in his announcement of the Safe has combined these broad development powers with the additional powers and authority vested in the Mayor's Neighborhoods Plan: I Office of Jobs and Community Services (JCS) to create a ' "Continued economic develop comprehensive set of economic development tools. The merger of EDIC and JCS builds on the strengths of both ment is necessary ifBoston is to organizations and adds several new components to be the kind ofcity we all want it economic development efforts, including the JCS social to be. It is through economic service, basic skills, and skills training network, Neigh growth that new jobs and new borhood Jobs Trust, which administers linkage funds for opportunities are created for job training. and the Boston Employment Commission, Boston's families." which monitors and enforces the policies of the Boston Residents Jobs Policy and jobs agreements. This merger of job training and economic development functions will Boston's Economic Development Agency/EDIC, is being be particularly important over the next decade when a re-organized, and re-energized to play a pivotal role in trained labor force will be critically important for Boston continuing Boston's economic growth. Our mission is to businesses. If Boston's labor pool can be trained and tied help strengthen the partnership between the public and directly to business growth areas, Boston will have a private sectors to create jobs and income to be shared by complete package of business resources that will give it a all of Boston's residents. distinct advantage within the region. With nearly two decades of experience in preserving and expanding Boston's economic base, EDIC has undertaken Our mission is to help strengthen a major re-organization to prepare for the challenges of the partnership between the public the coming decades. While still actively working to and private sectors to create jobs attract and preserve industrial enterprises and the jobs and income to be shared by all of they bring. EDIC today is a far more powerful and comprehensive organization with an array of develop Boston's residents. ment finance, business assistance, training. and human The merger of EDIC and JCS gives the expanded agency services tools to serve Boston's business and labor force. the ability to plan, assemble sites, and build economic Boston's Economic Development Agency/ EDIC was development facilities; finance businesses and develop established in 1971 to develop, pl'e"erve, and strengthen ment activities; recruit new businesses to Boston; provide Boston's manufacturing sector. To carry out its mission, a comprehensive array of services to Boston businesses; the Corporation was given substantial powers, including and train and place Boston residents in quality jobs. the power of eminent domain, the power to issue revenue These economic development tools will enable Boston to bonds, the po~er to make loans to businesses, and the compete aggressively in the nineties for the new growth power to own, lease, and manage real property. Separate and development opportunities in the region. 8 r EDIC!Boston 1990 Just as the Flynn administration has mobilized its nisms and small business financing. It also describes resources to help fill the affordable housing gap, our how EDIC will access new financial resources for attention must focus on building partnerships with economic development, and how accessibility to Boston's business community to continue the City's capital can be increased. economic development. EDIC's work plan for the IU. Expanding Job Opportunities Through Training: nineties represents an important part of Boston's eco This section describes a consolidated job training and nomic development program. It is a targeted effort to placement initiative for Boston. The initiative will build the partnerships and generate the investment include improved ties between economic develop necessary to continue Boston's economic development ment projects and job placement efforts as well as and growth. The four components of the workplan are: expanded training programs in partnership with key I. Expll)dlng Job Opportunities through Economic economic sectors. Development: This section addresses both a specific IV. Retaining and Expanding Busi~Wss and Job Opporturitles: development agenda for EDIC, including develop This section describes the Business and Job Develop ment of available public and private sites for job ment Program which will serve as a central point of generating enterprises and efforts to capture the contact for Boston businesses needing an array of economic development benefits of already planned services such as access to labor, space location, major development projects. permitting assistance, and financing. It also describes IL Flnlnclng Continued Economic Growth: This section an industrial policy for Boston which is designed to describes how EDIC will help ease the current credit protect existing businesses and jobs as well as a crunch through development bond financing mecha- recruitment strategy to capture investments in new growth sectors. I EDIC's Marine Industrial Parii-Home to 150 Companies and nearly 3,500 worilers. 9 t EDIC/Boston 11190 EDIC'S WORKPLAN FOR THE NINETIES I. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH 1990 &1991 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AllrfntlnduttMI Parle Maximizing development opportunities on vacant or Over the next two years, EDIC will continue to build on underutilized sites is a key component of EDIC's pro the success of the Marine Industrial Park. gram to create and retain jobs. By taking advantage of - A Master Plan for the MIP will be completed and Boston's location, access to transportation, labor force approved. and available land, EDIC is able to support the expansion of Boston firms and attract new firms to the city. This - In 1990, construction will commence on a $105 million, strategy has proved successful with the development of 1,100 car parking garage, which will provide a central parking facility and generate 100 construction jobs as EDIC's industrial parks, now important components of t-, Boston's manufacturing economy. Since 1983, activity at well as free up ten acres for development that could the parks has grown from 30 tenants providing under generate hundreds of permanent new jobs. 1,000 jobs to 160 firms with over 4,000 employees. - The Boston Thermal Energy Corporation will develop a Expanding development opportunities at the parks, as $100 million cogeneration power plant on a four-acre well as replicating the model of assembling space and site which will generate 175 construction and 80 financial resources will be a priority of EDIC's develop permanent jobs. ment agenda. - Harbor Gateway Associates will develop the seven-acre If Boston's development activity slows over the next Harbor Gateway site for fish processing and other in several years as projected, EDIC's role as a catalyst for dustrial uses to generate 400-.500 permanent jobs. development will become even more critical. With shrinking public resources, this development activity - Dry Dock #3 will be leased for either state or private needs to be more strategic than ever before. The primary purposes, thereby putting that valuable facility back focus for development activity will include: into productive use. - Existing sites at the Marine Industrial Park (MIP) and - EDIC will aggressively market the l50,000 square feet of available space in the MIP to ensure full lease up and the CrossTown Industrial Park occupancy by job generating firms. - Publicly owned parcels suitable for commercial and Croutown lnduttrfal Parlc!,.wmsrlcet industrial development Building on the success of the Crosstown Industrial Park, - Sites located in neighborhoods most impacted by EDIC will undertake the develqprnent of the last remain poverty, crime, and drugs ing parcels in Crosstown. Parcel 4, adjacent to the current Digital plant, is targeted for development as a medical - Projects in close proximity to existing, planned or technology or manufacturing facility and office space. The active public development activity development may be combined with an on-site job train - Neighborhood projects sponsored or developed by ing facility. Crosstown provides excellent transportation community controlled development corporations access and has a significant labor pool within walking which support job generating small business develop distance. The job training component of the development ment. would be coordinated with local hospitals to prepare neighborhood residents for jobs in health care and related EDIC's development priorities for the corning years is professions. Parcel 2B, also located in the Crosstown area, divided into two year periods. will be targeted for the construction of an incubator facility or other neighborhood-based businesses which will generate local job opportunities. 10 r EDIC/Boston 1990 1992 & 1993 Jackson Square While EDIC cannot replace the capital markets that fuel By working closely with the MBT A and the Jackson Boston's economy, well conceived and carefully targeted Square Development Collaborative, a unique consortium financing programs can help fill the gaps left by the of community-based organizations, EDIC will undertake "credit crunch". These programs will help EDIC offer a the development of three industrial parcels. Develop full range of assistance to Boston businesses so that they ment of these sites for light manufacturing uses will may generate new growth and create new jobs. generate up to 145 new jobs. Development of these parcels will provide the cornerstone for reinvestment in EDIC's financing programs work at two levels. Through the Jackson Square neighborhood, an area well served by its taxable and tax~xempt industrial bond programs, public transit and a large nearby labor force. offered by the affiliated Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority (BIDFA), EDIC is able to provide Brunswick GardMis: Grove Hall fixed or variable rate financing for projects over $750,000. This seven-acre, city-owned vacant site in Roxbury is one Through its affiliate, the Boston Local Development of the largest potential commercial sites in the city. Corporation (BLOC), EDIC provides a range of financing Working with the Grove Hall CDC, the Boston Public tools to fit the needs of Boston's smaller business. Facilities Department, and Industrial Site Development Associates, EDIC will seek to develop light manufactur O.vtlopiTJIHit Financing ing and/or commercial uses on the site. The site is EDIC, through its affiliated authority, BIDFA, will be a ideally located for a work force that needs easy access to critical link in filling the credit gap for Boston's major job opportunities. development projects in the nineties. By issuing either tax~xempt or taxable bonds, BIDFA will be available to i Boston State Hospital I finance real estate development, equipment acquisitions, EDIC will continue to work closely with the Public or working capital for many kinds of businesses seeking Facilities Department and community leaders to over to expand, relocate, or branch into Boston. come legislative inaction and seek development of the "East Campus" section of the Boston State Hospital for light industry, job training, day care, and housing. Simultaneously, a Master Plan will be developed for the The Hyde Pari< Paper Mill of the Patnot Paper Company, remainder of the site which will include residential reopened on August 15, 1990. BIDFA issued $37.5 million in mental health facilities, industrial development, commer tax-exempt bonds tl finance captal improvements. The mill is expected t1 employ up \:1200 worilers within two years. cial space, and housing. II. FINANCING CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH Underlying EDIC's efforts to help develop and expand Boston's economy is the challenge of maintaining a healthy investment climate in the face of state fiscal problems and the _.,. general tightening of credit. Massachusetts' four bond down-ratings in the last year have shaken investor confidence in the state ana its businesses. Simultaneously, business lending in the New England region has declined 7.9 percent since the beginning of the year. 11 t EDIC/Boston 1990 BIDFA will have three priorities for the coming decade. response, EDIC has begun an aggressive effort to identify The first priority will be to target financing for the new sources of capital beyond those traditionally "Boston Portfolio" which will occur in partnership with utilized. EDIC is exploring three sources of new loan the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency (MIFA ). capital: These six major development projects include the Yard's - Capitalizing Loan Repaym.nts: EDIC is exploring the End Research Center at the Charleston Navy Yard; the option of capitalizing the future loan repayments from New England Aquarium; the Custom House; Ruggles Urban Development Action Grants that currently are Center (Parcel18); South Station Air Rights Development; paid into the Neighborhood Development Fund . and 90 Tremont Street. Capturing Available FedBral Funds: EDIC will ag A second priority will be non-profit commercial and gresssively seek out and secure all available economic cultural institutional projects which can benefit from tax development and financing resources made available exempt financing. These may include new and expanded by the state and federal governments. This effort will medical, research, and cultural facilities located in the include actively generating proposals to the federal Midtown Cultural District and the Longwood Medical Economic Development Administration and the Com Area among others. munity Services Agency, among others. A third priority will be projects involving the develop Leveraging Financing FHs: EDIC will explore the ment of publicly~wned properties, such as the Marine feasibility of utilizing fees from major development Industrial Park, particularly if they will generate signifi bond finance projects to help capitalize BLOC's small cant new jobs for Boston residents. business loan programs. This effort will enable EDIC Buslt»u Financing to better share the benefits of economic growth with EDIC, offers Boston businesses a range of financing to businesses throughout the city. meet their different needs and enable them to create or retain jobs. Through BLOC, EDIC participates with private lenders to offer fixed-rate financing for construc Ill. EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES tion, renovation, acquisition, equipment, or working THROUGH TRAINING capital. While generally limited to 30 percent of a project, Boston's economic development program for the nineties EDIC will consider more significant participation when a must be about jobs for Boston residents. A recent study project requires it. Rates are set significantly below by Harvard University economist Richard Freeman noted market, and are negotiable. that for every point rise in the general employment rate, To meet the pressing needs of smaller companies which unemployment among inner city minority youth jumps may not have adequate access to credit, EDIC will as much as four percent. Without confronting the undertake the development of a Working Capital Loan challenge of providing job opportunities for Boston Guarantee program. BLOC will work with businesses residents, Boston's economic development program will and private lenders to guarantee up to 50% of working be an empty exercise. capital loan so that firms can operate with security and undertake necessary expansion. "Comprehensive job and skills Finally, EDIC will explore initiating a micro-loan pool training for Boston residents and targeted primarily to start-up firms, minority and women its young people is an essential owned businesses and small businesses requiring very component in maintaining eco small (up to $10,000) loans but which have little or no nomic vitality and growth. Only access to financial institutions. with this growth, and its related employment, can Boston thrive in GMeratlng New Financing Ruou~• Boston's pressing need for easily accessible credit comes the nineties." Mayor Raymond L. Flynn at a time when public resources are shrinking. In 12 r EDIC/Boston 1990 A centerpiece of EDIC's mission to create and retain jobs - Funding alternative education and job training pro for Boston residents will be the centralization and grams that served 716 youths in FY89. coordination of all job training and placement services through the merger of the Mayor's Office of Jobs and - Administering the Neighborhood Jobs Trust The centralized job training and services efforts will New Employment and Training Initiatives coordinate the various elements of the employment and Over the next few years, EDIC will undertake new training system into an integrated system of services, employment and training initiatives to maximize Boston where each level of service supports the goals of the next. resident participation in economic development initia For example, day care services will allow parents to enter tives. into training programs and ultimately join the labor force. - EDIC will turn the Boston Technical Center into a Successful completion of skills training will allow placing model school and center of excellence for training participants in targeted labor pools which can be Boston residents in vocational, technical, and secretarial matched with the employment needs of Boston firms. positions that meet the needs of growing economic An integrated agency will allow EDIC to design and sectors. The Humphrey Occupational Resources implement creative programs for population groups Center will be brought into this collaboration to more traditionally excluded from the employment and training closely match both the needs of potential trainees and system and the labor forces such as young Black males, targeted employers. The BTC will focus its attention on drop-outs, ex-offenders, and the homeless. populations that are not currently adequately served by traditional job training programs such as linguistic mi EDIC, in close collaboration with the Boston Private norities and minority males. In addition, the BTC will Industry Council will continue the succesful efforts of help develop model curricula that can be used by Jobs and Community Services such as: community-based organizations throughout the city. - Providing referrals to job training and education, - EDIC, together with the Department of Health and employment readiness, job development and job place Hospitals, the Private Industry Council (PIC), the ment. JobStarts four neighborhood offices and three Council of Boston Teaching Hospitals, the Boston welfare offices served 4,920 Boston residents in FY89. Public Schools, health care unions and higher educa tional institutions, will collaborate to develop a Health - Supporting adult basic education, English as a Second Careers Academy that links Boston residents with the Language, and External Diploma classes in neighbor skills needed to fill positions in the health care and hood based literacy classes. These programs served burgeoning medical research and biotech industries. 1,841 residents in FY89. The Academy will be a career-specific, self 13 r EDIC/Boston 1990 The Academy will provide hands-on training, clinical randum of Agreement with institutional employers internships, research opportunities, career counseling, who are developing new office and research space to and job placement services. work with JobStart to place Boston residents, minorities and women in construction and permanent jobs. - EDIC will work with literacy advocates to develop and expand model literacy programs for family literacy. - The Boston Private Industry Council and EDIC will These programs will involve multi-generational educa convene an Employment and Training Roundtable to tion, including children, parents and grandparents. By work with labor, Community-Based Organizations including several generations within families, the (COO's), academic and employment specialists to programs will strengthen the support systems neces define a visionary and coherent Boston Employment sary to make literacy training successful. and Training Policy. The goal of this collaboration will be to: - Vocational education programs geared to non-English - Develop and analyze labor market trends to define speakers will be expanded at the Boston Technical job growth areas for the next five years Center. Building upon the success of the BTC's - Consult with businesses through the PIC to define machine tool program that includes an English as a those skills which will allow workers to progress Second Language component, such training will be along a career ladder expanded to other trades. - Analyze the recruitment, assessment, enrollment, - EDIC will work with private firms, the building trade retention, training, job development and placement unions, and neighborhood training programs to train practices of training programs and make recommen Boston residents, women, minorities, and youth dations for improvement through the Building Opportunities Program. Trainees - Explore the special needs of populations tradition will be placed in positions in major Massachusetts ally excluded from the employment and training Water Resources Authority (MWRA) projects, the system and labor force Third Harbor Tunnel, and the Central Artery project. - Prioritize funding allocations for COO's who address areas of future job growth and have a strong - EDIC will adopt school-to-work transition programs performance history. involving high schools, employment and training programs and community colleges for targeted indus tries. The Boston Technical Center's English as a Second Language/Machine Tool Set-Up and ~eration Program - EDIC will expand and refine programs which offer career mobility for the marginally employed or "working poor" such as worksite literacy, eve-ning classes and school to work transition. - Working through the Boston Employment Commission, Boston for Boston, JobsStart, the Jobs Bank, and the Compliance and Enforcement unit, EDIC will strongly encourage Boston employers to hire residents, minorities and women and undertake innovative training programs to maximize these hirings. EDIC will monitor public and private construction and permanent jobs to meet the require ments of the Boston Residents Jobs Policy. In addition, EDIC will develop a Memo- 14 f EDIC/Boston 1990 City, as well as information on expansion or relocation IV. RETAINING AND EXPANDING BUSINESS plans for the next three to five years. AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES Building Boston's economic base, both in manufacturing Boston's primary source of job growth and economic and other k.ey sectors will require a broad-based partner expansion lies with its existing businesses. Understand ship between government and business, utilizing several ing that Boston's economy has changed dramatically over key tools, including intensive business assistance, and a the past two decades, EDIC has broadened its mission to carefully crafted industrial policy for the city. The focus its business retention and expansion efforts on ultimate goal is to provide a "business friendly" environ every major sector in the Boston economy that provides ment in the city which will assist businesses and the significant employment opportunities. These efforts will work.ers they employ. include such industries as health care, financial services and the hotel industry. Boston's Business and Jobs Even with the dramatic changes in Boston's economy, the Development Program manufacturing sector remains an important component EDIC's Business and Jobs Development Program will be of the city's economy. It is the sector where goods are Boston's "one stop shopping" system for business. produced, and where many of Boston's residents find Encompassing financing, space location, job matching, employment opportunities with good wages. Despite job permitting and regulatory assistance, and business losses over the past two decades, Boston's manufacturing planning and analysis, the Program will open up new sector must continue to be a vital component of a diver opportunities for large and small businesses undertaking sified and balanced local economy. Economic stability expansions, relocations, or start up. In its effort to and expansion in Boston's economy will be achieved by maximize business retention, EDIC will carefully identify working in partnership with the city's existing growth and contact those businesses which can benefit from our industries and targeting so-called new industries to available resources. expand or locate in Boston. Despite the overall decline in manufacturing employment EDIC's Business and Jobs Devel in Boston in the eighties, some important industries ex opment Program will be perienced employment growth. These potential growth Boston's "one stop shopping'' industries include the medical instruments, electronics, system for business. books and periodicals, miscellaneous foods and chemi cal/pharmaceuticals industries. They will be the primary targets for EDIC's efforts to encourage growth and Financing expansion. EDIC, in cooperation with its affiliates and private lenders will provide financing for real estate acquisition EDIC will work in partnership with these and other and rehabilitation or construction, equipment acquisition, potential growth industries such as health care and hotels relocation and working capital. In addition, staff will by closely identifying their needs through EDIC's de assist participating businesses in seeking out and tailed surveys and data base and providing an easily ac securing other types of financing including venture cessible set of services to them through the planned Bu capital, and equity. siness and Jobs Development Program described below. S,.c. L~tlon EDIC's central data base will play an important role in In today's market, the right space at the right price can be tracking the developments and understanding the pros the difference between success and failure for a business. pects for Boston's industries in the next decaue. EDIC Firms needing new or additional space will be matched tracks developments in the city's industries by providing with appropriate private or public space available in information on firm history, employment patterns, space EDIC's inventory. EDIC tracks all available industrial allocation, business performance and projections, growth real estate in Boston and maintains a regularly updated and composition, firm movement within or out of the data base known as the Site Finder. 15 r EDIC/Boston 1990 Job llalt:hlng An Industrial Policy for Boston Perhaps the most important tool for economic develop In addition to direct assistance to Boston businesses, ment in the nineties will be access to a trained labor pool. EDIC will undertake several activities which will protect Through its job development and placement programs, Boston's manufacturing firms and the workers they EDIC will provide firms with access to a trained labor employ. These policies and programs form the basis of pool. Firms requiring specific trained labor will be an industrial policy for Boston. matched with potential employees receiving instruction from EDIC sponsored training programs, as well as Pllnt Clotlng Prog"m community-based, vocational education and post Boston has experienced several significant plant closings secondary job training programs. Neighborhood over the past decade. In cases such as the Amstar sugar residents seeking employment will be coordinated with refinery in Charlestown, and the James River Paper Mill business manpower needs through neighborhood based in Hyde Park, employees were given little, if any, oppor JobStart offices. tunity to seek alternatives to closing or to utilize training and placement services. PemWttlng 1nd Rtgulltory Aulst.nu EDIC staff will work closely with businesses to cut red In response to such situations, EDIC, in cooperation with tape and help guide them through necessary permitting the Greater Boston Labor Council, has produced a hand processes and regulatory issues. This assistance will book, entitled "Plant Closings and Layoffs, a Technical include the zoning and building permitting process, Guide for Unions, Workers, and Community Organiza environmental approvals, and water and sewer approv tions." The booklet details federal and state protections als, among others. for workers in plant closing situations. EDIC will main tain a network of labor and community contacts to Export Aultt.nu monitor plant closing and layoff developments. By I The Business and Jobs Development Program will identifying such situations with sufficient lead time, provide assistance to companies wishing to identify and EDIC will then be able to assist in providing re-training access export markets. By matching firms with local and placement services for the employees which can take experts, trade agencies and universities, EDIC can advantage of job opportunities in the "new economy". provide even small firms with free or low cost planning for accessing new export markets. EDIC will work closely with the state Industrial Services Program to target key industrial sectors in Boston which But!,.., Pllnnlng can benefit from targeted sector-wide strategies such as The Business and Jobs Development Program will training, marketing, or technological innovations. Some provide access to a range of consulting services for firms of these approaches are outlined below. requiring assistance such as developing business plans, assembling financing packages, establishing internal WorkM Ownerthlp Program systems, or other operational needs as they arise. Among the options for successor ownership of firms which are closing or selling off their assets is a purchase Accatlng thf s.rvtc.. by the employees themselves. EDIC strongly endorses EDICs staff will be available for phone consultations or such efforts and will provide access to technical assis visits in order to access services of the Program. Business "tance to employees of firms which are seeking to sell their Assistance staff will serve as ombudsmen for businesses. business. EDIC will also seek to promote worker owner They will make a variety of services available as well as ship in start-up situations as well as in sales or closings. provide general advocacy for businesses needing assistance. In order to bring the services of the Program lndustrlll Action Pllnt more directly to businesses, staff will have materials As part of its ongoing commitment to preserving and located at convenient neighborhood locations such as enhancing Boston's manufacturing base, EDIC will work offices of local community development corporations, with the Commonwealth's Industrial Services Program to social service organizations, boards of trade, local banks, seek to initiate Industrial Action Plans (lAP) in strategic and business associations. industries within the city modelled after the successful 16 f EDIC/Boston 1990 Needle Trades Action Project in Fall River and the Industrial Park. Aggressively marketing the space will Machine Action Project in the Springfield area. The lAP not only result in the leasing of the space, but will will identify and organize a group of firms within a given increase business consciousness of EDIC as an agency industrial sector which can benefit from organized that has much to offer to the business community. identification of their needs and collaborative planning of - EDIC will issue regular newsletters targeted to neigh services. Such services could include targeted long-term borhood business districts, business leaders, commu job training. collaborative marketing efforts such as nity-based organizations and neighborhood residents export strategies, or technical innovations for one or able to take advantage of EDIC's jobs program. multiple firms. These efforts will also include strategic research and assistance for military conversion efforts - EDIC will actively market its services through mail where appropriate. ings, telephone calls, and use of media outlets. Light Manufacturing Zones (LMZ) - EDIC will repackage and reissue brochures and pam A Light Manufacturing Zone is a new zoning classifica phlets regarding its services. These materials will be tion developed by EDIC to protect manufacturing jobs, tied together with an overriding theme and message of maintain a balance between the needs of industry and economic development, business growth and jobs. neighborhoods, and help successful employers expand and create new jobs. In an LMZ, job-intensive light EXPANDING THE ECONOMY industrial operations such as printing shops, fish process ing, and medical instrument assembly would be encour Economic diversity has long been one of the strengths of aged. Housing and most office developments would be the Boston economy. Diversification and the develop discouraged and businesses that create environmental ment of a "new economy" will be centerpieces of Boston's economic development policy in the nineties. Diversifi I hazards would be regulated. Activities which support manufacturing. such as job training and child care cation in Boston's economy will take advantage of the facilities, warehouse and distribution, and restaurants city's wealth of research and academic institutions. As would also be allowed. LMZs will help protect Boston's traditional manufacturing and computer-based industries shrinking supply of manufacturing space from mothball are projected to grow more slowly over the next decade, ing and speculation, making it available for healthy, job new growth will likely be fueled by medical and re producing firms. Over the next two years, EDIC will search-based industries. work with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) While the past decade saw over 4,000 new jobs created by and the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services to growth manufacturing industries, projected slowdowns introduce LMZs to four neighborhoods, including in these industries require an active effort to diversify the Charlestown, Hyde Park, Allston-Brighton, and Jamaica economy into new growth areas. These new growth Plain. areas include medical manufacturing, medical research, biotechnology, non-computer-based electric and elec ,.rtc,tlng Sus/ness and Jobs DlvelopmM!t and AsslstlnCf s.rvtc.s tronic equipment, and specialized materials. These industries, key components of Boston's "new economy'', EDIC can offer a range of important services to busi were identified from projected national and state nesses and workers in Boston's industries, but only if employment growth, and the compatibility of the such services are more widely known. In the coming projections with Boston's industrial mix and economic months, EDIC will undertake several marketing initia conditions. The strength of Boston's medical and tives to publicize the availabity of its Business and Jobs academic sectors are key factors in the identification of Development and Assistance services. the largely medical and research-based new industries. - To increase its visibility, EDIC will aggressively adver Al« 17 t EDIC/Boston 1990 tronic equipment industries. Expansion in the new institutional sector and in partnerships between the industries is expected from new forms of instruments and private firms and the institutions. Research employment electronic apparatus, particularly of x-ray and other by Boston's institutional sector is estimated to expand by electromedical apparatus and pharmaceuticals. between 52.2 percent and 82.2 percent in the nineties, generating as many as 6,000 new jobs. Exceptional growth is projected in the medical manufac turing industry nationwide and in Massachusetts, in Specialized lrfaterlat• particular, as an aging population and new technologies Specialized Materials is another potential new growth in health care increase the demand for health care sector for Boston. These ceramic materials have extraor services. The medical instruments and supplies industry dinary characteristics, such as hardness greater than steel is expected to expand by 41 percent from 1987 to 2000 or diamonds, electrical qualities that are useful in the while the drugs and electromedical apparatus industries manufacture of batteries and electrical circuits, resistance are expected to grow by 13 and 5 percent respectively. to high temperatures and invulnerability to damage from Boston can benefit from the growth by undertaking an chemicals. These characteristics and their increasing aggressive recruitment and business assistance effort. usefulness is expected to trigger a national annual growth of 20 percent in output. Boston can benefit from targeting Biotechnology specialized materials manufacturers for recruitment as While many states concerned with bolstering their the national market grows. economies will be trying to attract biotechnology firms over the next several years, Boston enjoys several Targeting and Recruiting From the comparative advantages including a strong network of "New Economy" academic and research institutions, a strong local venture capital pool, and a skilled workforce. Boston continues to Having identified the likely growth sectors for Boston, I be the medical research/hospital center of the country. EDJC is now preparing to target firms for recruitment Boston's health care institutions now receive more federal which fit a set of criteria making them most likely to funding, on a per capita basis, than any other city in the start-up, branch, or relocate in Boston. Criteria for nation. The immediate prospects for employment identifying target firm s include: growth in Boston's biotechnology industry lie in the 1. Large firms which are expanding, which have markets NATIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT GROWTH PROJECTIONS or suppliers in this region or who might require the r------, researchexpertiselocatedinthearea; u.s. MASS 1988-2000 1987-2000 2. Smaller fi rms which have a high rate of Electronic and electrical equipment growth and who are candidates for relocation or branching; X-ray and eledromedical apparatus 2.5% 5.2% Radio and communications equipment 2.0% 9.1% 3. Firms identified through the relevant Semiconductors 9.0% trade press and other sources as having high growth potential whose needs Instruments coincide with Boston's advantages. Engineering and scientific 33.0% 21 .1% Measuring and controlling devices 4.0% 5.9% Once having identified appropriate firms, and researched their individual needs, EDIC will undertake a concerted recruit Optical and opthalmic products 6.0"/o 7.0o/o ment effort. This effort, which may be Medical instruments and supplies 26.0o/o 40.6% regional, national, or international in scope Drug• 14.0o/o 12.7% will involve specific customized mailings followed up by phone calls and visits from Source: U.S. Projections: Bureau of Labor Statistics EDIC staff as well as city administration Mass Projections: MA Dept of Employment and Training officials. 18 • EDIC/Boston 1990 Expanding International Markets Boston is uniquely situated to play a central role in the advancement of the international "New Economy" . In addition to Boston' s advantages such as a trained labor force, a highly developed research and medical infra structure, and a strong high tech industry, Boston has certain specific advantages for international trade and investment. The City, for example, is one day closer by shipping route and one hour closer by air freight to Europe than New York. With the exceptions of Montreal and Quebec, Boston also bears the closest resemblance to a European city of any North American city. However, Boston' s geographic and economic advantages will not help capture European markets and investments without a concerted effort, on the part of government and the private sector, to both widen the horizons of local enterprise to the prospect of overseas trade and joint ventures and market Boston in Europe and Asia as an Developing new markets for Boston manufacturers will excellent place for investment and industrial expansion. be a key component of EDIC's mission for the 90's. EDIC is committed to working closely with the private sector to reach the 340 million consumers of the European followed by unique city to city partnerships with a special Community nations, among others, and their $4 trillion in emphasis on trade and investment. spending power. EDIC will take full advantage of the existing international trade programs operated by Another component of a marketing strategy for Boston Massachusetts Port Authority and the State Office of will be to reach the millions of visitors from abroad who International Trade and go beyond these programs to travel to Boston each year. EDIC will work closely with target the Boston economy more specifically. EDIC will the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau as help foreign firms become aware of Boston's resources, well as the hotel industry and MassPort to ensure that advantages, and trade and investment opportunities. visitors have access to attractive information about EDIC will also play the role of facilitator in matching Boston, including background on the city's economy and foreign businesses to local financial institutions and firms resources. who might need joint-venture partners overseas. Maximizing exports for Boston-based firms will be the One untapped and cost-effective point of contact for third component of EDIC's international trade and international trade and investment is the almost 200 investment strategy. Through the Boston Export Strategy foreign-owned firms currently in Boston and the immedi Team 19 t 'J EDIC/Boston 1990 DELIVERING EDIC'S SERVICES WITH A NEW ORGANIZATION EDIC has set out an ambitious agenda to help continue Development Program and international trade Boston's economic growth. EDIC's mission and and investment assistance workplan will only be effective if it can be delivered by a 8. BusiiJISS Assistance: Responsible for all marketing dynamic, efficiently run organization. To that end, and lease up of EDIC-owned industrial space EDIC's structure has been re-organized to maximize efficient service delivery and reduce overlapping IV. JOBS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES responsibilities. This section is intended to assist the A. Boston RISidents Jobs Program: Responsible for reader in understanding EDIC's organization and how to compliance with the Boston Residents Jobs best access its services. Ordinance, staffing the Boston Employment Commission, and job placement through the I. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE JobStarts program A. Legal SMvlcu· Responsible for legal services to all EDIC departments 8. Boston Technical CM!ter: Manages technical training B. Martc.ting: Responsible for publicizing EDIC programs at the accredited technical school services and resources located at the Marine Industrial Park C. Polley, Reuarch, and Program Development: Provides research and policy development for all EDIC de C. Program Management and Ptanrrng: Manages all partments and analyzes and develops existing and contracts for services including skills and youth new programs services, literacy services, refugee services, and community services, and staffs the Jobs Trust II. ECONOYC DEVELOPMENT A. Planning and Development: Initiates and manages all V. OPERATIONS real estate development for EDIC Manages all aspects of the Marine Industrial Park 8. Construction and EnglnHrlng: Responsible for all operations design review, engineering and graphic design A. Property Management services 8. Buildings and Grounds C. Rnanclal SMvlces: Manages EDIC's affiliated financ ing corporations, including BLOC (small business VI. ADWNISTRA T10N AND FINANCE lending) and BIDFA (bond financing) A. Rtcll: Manages all accounting, budgeting, payroll, purchasing, and contracts Ill. BUSINESS ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPIENT B. Human ~sources: Responsible for all personnel A. Business Development and R«rullmlnt: Responsible functions for recruitment of new firms and all business C. "'IIIQIHMlJt Servlus: Responsible for all office retention efforts through the Business and Jobs related services 20 f - - - - I - Private Industry Council -- -- I I I Community-Based Boston Economic Development Agency/EDIC Roston .. Organizations ''BUILDING BUSINESSES and JOBS~ Businesses SKILLS JOB PROPERTY BUSINESS TRAINING DEVELOPMENT MANAGER & DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPER and ASSISTANCE r Skills Training r-; PLACEMENT ~ Support Existing Job Development Industrial Park Employment Business "'""" Management Readiness Relerrals Real Estale Broker Development Projects Job Search Skills Follow-up Recruit New Business ..-s TRAINED FINANCIAL EDUCATIONAL ,_ LABOR FORCE SERVICES SERVICES J ~ BUSINESS NEIGHBORHOOD BID FA ESL PERSON , ,. PERSON ABE BLOC Adull L11eracy JOBS EDIC I SUPPORT INTAKE JOB TRAINER PLANNER SERVICES CAREER Assessment DEVELOPER Economic/Business Day Care Trends Referral ~ Basion Technical ~ Cenler ~ ~ Transportation Labor Force Research Enrollment lnduslnal Careers Counseling Program Manufacturing Universe ... EDIC/Boston 1990 .- l 22 t BIG N E w s Business and Industrial Growth I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I LIGHT MANUFACTURING ZONING Protecting manufacturing jobs Balancing the needs of industry and neighborhoods Keeping Boston's growing employers What is a Light Manufacturing Zone? Real estate speculation is worsening the situation: property owners can often get five A Light Manufacturing Zone, or LMZ, is a times as much rent per square foot from an off\ce new zoning classification being proposed by the operation than from a manufacturing company. Economic Development and Industrial Corpora That's why they can buy up manufacturing space tion (EDIC) to protect manufacturing jobs, and hold it empty for as long as ten years. maintain a balance between the needs of industry and neighborhoods, and help successful employ There are several vacant buildings and lots in ers expand and create new jobs. The proposal is our neighborhood. If manufacturing space is currently under consideration by the Boston in short supply, why aren't they being used? Redevelopment Authority. Many buildings are vacant by design: their In an LMZ, job-intensive light manufacturing owners are real estate speculators who refuse to operations such as print shops, fish processors, offer the long-term leases which manufacturing and medical instrument producers would be operations re4uire. (Moving manufacturing encouraged. equipment is very expensive.) Speculators are Professional offices and housing would be hoping that companies looking for office space prohibited, and businesses that create environ outside downtown will lease from them -- and mental hazards -- such as junkyards and trash pay greater rents. And while they keep industrial transfer stations -- would be regulated. Activities buildings vacant and unused, manufacturers which support manufacturing, such as job looking for space to expand and create good jobs training and child care facilities, and restaurants, for Boston residents are forced to look outside would also be allowed. the City. Vacant lots are a different story. Many are Why does Boston need Light Manufacturing already owned by the City and are targeted for a Zones? number of purposes, such as affordable housing. Published by the The eventual disposition of vacant land will be Boston has dozens of light manufacturing Economic Development made with significant neighborhood input. and Industrial Corporation success stories -- companies whose success is of Boston tied to growth in the service industries. They Why are light manufacturing operations Marilyn Swartz Lloyd include print shops serving the financial services, important to Boston? Director fish processing companies selling local-catch seafood to Boston's booming restaurant trade, High-quality jobs in manufacturing are the Raymond L. Flynn and medical instrument manufacturers that are backbone of strong City neighborhoods. The Mayor growing because of the influence of area average manufacturing worker earns $25,400 per hospitals and universities. year, and many manufacturing jobs offer Unfortunately, an EDIC survey found that the excellent opportunities for advancement. Boston largest single problem faced by companies like residents comprise nearly 40% of the City's these is an acute shortage of good quality, manufacturing workforce, but only one-quarter affordable space to expand. of Boston's office workers live in the City. To assure that City residents continue to How would Light Manufacturing Zones qualify for and obtain manufacturing jobs, EDIC, protect manufacturing jobs? the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services, and non-profit organizations are Boston's booming economy has led to a providing job training. At EDIC's Boston shortage of space for all uses -- housing, office, Technical Center, several thousand Boston retail, and industrial -- and many manufacturers residents have received high-quality training in a are being squeezed out. Others are facing shorter variety of areas, from welding and machine tool leases and higher rents. operation, to office machine repair and medical secretary. Continued on back page BIG N E W S I I I I I I I I I I EDICI Boston 38 Chauncy Street Boston, Massachusetts 02111 617-725-3342 Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor Board of Directors Chairman Mr·. \VIt c:haf.!!l L.i u Stuart J. Vidockler Committee for Community Action Vice Chairman Kevin C Phelan 27 Beach Street #3 Bo·::d: on , I"! f.) 02 :L 11 Donald A. Gillis J D Nelson Arthur F. F. Snyder Fletcher H. Wiley. Esq . What kinds of businesses would be What will happen to companies in an Why doesn't EDIC just take land by disallowed in a Light Manufacturing area designated as a Light Manufactur eminent domain, and use it for light Zone? ing Zone that don't conform to the new manufacturing space? zoning? Will they have to close? Most office uses would be disallowed, Taking large amounts of land would be as would bus terminals and dead storage. No business currently operating in the prohibitively expensive, leading to a (Forty-percent of any parcel could be used City of Boston will be forced to close by counter-productive increase in tax rates. for "back office" space which serves as the LMZ. Existing uses will be allowed to EDIC has gained a great deal of experi additional space for existing office continue on the same site and even expand ence dealing with the needs of manufactur operations.) In addition, noxious uses up to 25 percent. ing in running three City-owned industrial such as trash transfer stations and The zoning will prevent a building that parks. This expertise has led to the junkyards would be forbidden. is currently being used for manufacturing development of the LMZ proposal. This would provide two benefits. First, to be converted to a disallowed usc, such However, the 3.5 million square feet of manufacturers would not have to compete as an auto junk yard. City-owned industrial park space has been with office-based operations for space in fully leased, and creating a large number buildings specifically designed for Where will Light Manufacturing Zones of new industrial parks would be too manufacturing. Second, the junk yards and be established? Who will draw the expensive. trash piles that discourage new businesses boundaries? would be eliminated, making light The LMZ proposal is target¥ at areas Why is medical research and develop manufacturing zones more attractive for currently zoned "l" (Industrial)' or "M" ment allowed in a Light Manufacturing job-creating investment. (Manufacturing). Zone? Boundaries for Light Manufacturing Boston is a major medical and health How will Light Manufacturing Zones Zones within each neighborhood will be care center. In addition to our many help clean up neighborhoods? drawn through an open community hospitals and phannaceutical companies, process. Boston is now undergoing a Boston is a geographically small city. Boston has a thriving medical instrument complete overhaul of its zoning. Commu In many neighborhoods, houses and manufacturing sector. nity zoning advisory groups, which are manufacturers live in very close quarters. Medical research and development, an already studying land use in each neigh Businesses in a Light Manufacturing Zone emerging industry that grows out of the borhood, will be able to designate areas will have to be good neighbors. research done in local universities and now zoned "I" or "M" as LMZs in order to Performance standards and design hospitals, is necessary for these activities ensure that businesses and residences can guidelines for buildings within the zone to continue as an essential part of the local co-exist in the same neighborhood. are written into the text of the LMZ. economy. And there will be extensive Although "I" and "M" designations will Parking space and noise will be regulated. safeguards built in: medical research and remain in effect, their boundaries will be Landscaping and buffer strips between development is heavily regulated by the adjusted in the process of accommodating buildings and houses will be required. federal government as well as a City the new Light Manufacturing Zones. These standards and guidelines would oversight committee. apply to new buildings within an LMZ, Why is artist live/work space allowed in and to new owners of existing buildings Why can't grocery stores or department a Light Manufacturing Zone? within the zone. stores locate in a Light Manufacturing The LMZ proposal would also reduce Artist's studios are a type of inter Zone? truck traffic in our neighborhoods. By · mediate use which is usually inappropriate In an LMZ, retail stores, child care, job using the LMZ designation, community for residential neighborhoods: their tools training, restaurants, and other uses which advisory groups and the City could plan -- paint, metals, and other materials -- are serve manufacturing companies and together to concentrate high-traffic similar to industrial equipment. Also, they workers would be allowed. Large grocery activities near major arterial roads and off often require the freight elevators and high and department stores that serve more than neighborhood streets. ceilings available only in industrial the immediate neighborhood would be buildings. prohibited because they generate substan tial traffic flows; they also are allowed in areas with more appropriate zoning. • • • • • • • Marine Industrial Park Alsen -Mapes Industrial Park Crosstown Industrial Park Spring 1988 • SPRING PROJECTS AT MARINE INDUSTRIAL PARK New Pier 1 0 Park Marine Industrial Park tenants can look forward to a new waterfront park, additional parking spaces, and other improvements as EDIC's Operations and Engineering department gears up for Spring. A pedestrian walkway has been completed, 20 parking spaces have been created for Bronstein Center tenants, and work will soon resume on the Pier 10 Project. In the past Pier 10 was used mainly for docking the caisson, or Drydock 3 door. Under EDIC's renovation program, a new public park and berthing space for lobster boats and the Boston Harbor Patrol are being created. Railings, benches, lights and landscaping will be built in the park area allowing more public access to the waterfront. Grand Banks Marine, the contractor for the Pier 10 Artist's rendering of the Pier Ten Park showing public park and project, has installed three wooden floats adjacent to the new berths for lobster boats and the Boston Harbor Patrol. pier. Lobstermen will be able to handle their catch more efficiently with a new manual hoist that will be installed All asbestos has been removed from the eight-tloor, at the end of the pier. 276,000 square foot building, and new light manufactur ing tenants will be moving in by the end of the year. New industrial center planned The development is a project of Drydock Associates, a EDIC's Board of Directors has tentatively designated joint venture of Bay State Investors, Inc., Macomber Harbor Gateway Associates to develop the five-acre Development Associates, Taylor Properties, Inc., and Harbor Gateway and two-acre Berth 10 parcels. The Dunn Associates. development team, which includes co-managing partners Jeannette Boone and Vincent McCarthy, David Lee and Donald Stull, and the Boston real estate firm of Meredith NEWMARKET PLAN CALLS FOR and Grew as development consultants, will develop a $33.5 million printing, graphic arts and seafood process IMPROVEMENTS ing complex on the parcels. After months of planning discussions with business A fish processing facility accomodating five to seven owners and community groups, EDIC has completed a firms requiring direct access to the water is planned for $116 million plan for revitalization of the Newmarket the Berth 10 site. In addition, Harbor Gateway Associates Industrial District. Newmarket is adjacent to EDIC's hopes to include a cruise boat operator on the Berth 10 Crosstown Industrial Park, home to Digital Equipment site that would encourage public access to the industrial Corporation and Morgan Memorial/Goodwill Industries. park in the evening. The Newmarket plan calls for upgrading traffic systems, Drydock Center under construction and utilities, development of new industrial sites, and financial assistance for growing companies in the district. Development of Section A of the former Boston Army An upgraded image will underscore the improvements Base is moving ahead. Workers are now busy tearing with new landscaping, public art, and public amenities. down partition walls and removing old water piping and EDIC and the Flynn Administration are urging the electrical conduits in preparation for a new heating, legislature to approve $40 million in development funds ventilation, and air conditioning system. for the area. Marilyn Swartz Lloyd. Director Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston EDIC OFFERS FINANCING, TUNNEL PROGRESS EXPORTING ASSISTANCE TO EDIC and State address major concerns BOSTON COMPANIES Within two years, construction work will begin on the $3.3 billion depressed Central Artery and Third Harbor Four years ago a printing company in Boston faced a Tunnel. The eight-to-ten-lane artery and tunnel will situation familiar to many small business owners. Sales replace one of the oldest and most congested urban were up and the potential for more growth was obvious. highway systems in the country. The company had outgrown iL<; building and needed new A major element in the project, the Seaport Acce:c;s equipment, but funding an expansion without outside financing was out of the question. Road connecting the central artery to the tunnel, w1ll pass For New England Lithograph the solution was a nearby EDIC's Marine Industrial Park (MIP), entering the Harbor on the east side of General Ship and Drydock 4. $1 ,000,000 financial assistance package arranged by EDIC has commissioned an engineering study of the EDIC's financing affiliates. The funding enabled the Tunnel's impacts on the park and its tenants, and is now company to move to the Bronstein Industrial Center at the working with the State Department of Public Works to Marine Industrial Park and expand its operations with a five-color press and new binding equipment. "The address a range of concerns. financing gave us the opportunity to move and we were able to purchase the equipment we needed to stay in ARBORWAY METAL JOINS AMIP business," said New England Lithograph President Jack Galvin. Arborway Metal Finishing, a metal refinishing and laminating company, will completing their move into a The Boston Local Development Corporation (BLDC) be and Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority new building in the Alsen-Mapes Industrial Park in (BIDFA) have assisted many companies like New Dorchester by April 11. EDIC's maintenance department is busy painting fences England Lithograph, including several other EDIC tenants. at the front entrance, prepairing the roadways, clearing brush, and making minor site and utility repairs. The BLDC combines private bank loans with its own federally supported loan fund, and Small Business Administration loans. BIDFA has developed new bond financing mechanisms in response to the Tax Reform Act The Park News of 1986, which changed the structure of bond issuance. EDIC/BOSTON Based on a recent survey of small companies, the 38 Chauncy Street BLDC has created a new working capital loan program Boston, MA. 02111 targeted at businesses in need of $25,000- $100,000 to support sales growth. And companies seeking alternative Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director financing for their equipment needs can take advantage of Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor a new equipment leasing program. EDIC tenants interested in discussing their financing Board of Directors needs should contact Suann Spellman or Samuel Pierce at Chairman 725-3342. Stuart J. Vidockler VIce Chairman, Tapping export markets Kevin C. Phelan Under a new program established between EDIC and Donald A. Gillis J.D. Nelson the Massachusetts Port Authority, local manufacturers Arthur F. F. Snyder may obtain free information and advice on exporting Fletcher H. Wiley, Esq. including trade leads, licenses, foreign distribution, The Park News is published by the Economic Development and Industrial marketing strategies and other matters. Companies Corporation of Boston for tenants In EDIC's three industrial parks : the Marine interested in exploring their export potential or expanding Industrial Park, Crosstown Industrial Park, and Alsen Mapes l~dustr i al Park. EDIC!Boston Is the economic development agency of the C~y of Boston with a their international market should contact Paul Horn, mandate to retain and create industrial jobs w"hln the c"y. EDIC employs its public powers and resources to maintain, expand and create Director of Special Projects at 725-3342. Industrial and commercial activity that will have the most favorable Impact on the economic development of the City. Through industrial development, j?b training, financial assistance, and other services, EDIC promotes access for C1ty residents to promising jobs and careers. The corporation also seeks to enhance the productivity of land and buildings In Boston's neighborhoods and to foster a heanhy and diversified City economy. Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor SUMMER 1987 Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director INSIDE THIS ISSUE Good news for blue-collar workers Page 3 A $7 million renovation of the last section of Army Base building at Marine Industrial Park will create space for 500 jobs. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, State Representative Kevin Fitzgerald, PREP instructor Michael Oliver, and youth worker Ronald Robertson look over materials for new EDIC diploma program at Mission Park EDIC/Planner An economic heartland Page4 A second chance Community groups and City agencies work together to revitalize 'we hear so much about Boston's strong economy, Newmarket/South Bay area. but many young people in the neighborhoods don't have a real opportunity to participate in that economy,'' Mayor Raymond L. Flynn said at the opening of Project PREP, a high school equivalency diploma program being conducted by EDIC's Boston Technical Center at Mission Park housing project in Roxbury. ''Education and job training can extend these Mayor Flynn EDIC/Banker opportunities, and that is our number one concern at Public, private lenders this time,'' the Mayor stated to Mission Park tenants congratulates finance Dorchester gathered in the Betty Powers library at the project. expansion Page7 Project PREP is an individualized program for tenants at Boston Local Development Corporation packages $700 ,000 to young people between 16 and 20 who have dropped finance P. J. O' Donnell expansion. out of school. PREP teaches competency-based opening of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies and prepares students to pass the General Educa Mission Park tional Development (GED) diploma tests. diplonta ''We are attracting people who know they must get their high school diploma to begin a decent progrant. career,'' explained PREP instructor Michael Oliver. ''While students prepare to pass the GED, we will EDIC/Trainer assist them in entering job training programs .'' Advancing on Project PREP is a collaborative effort by Roxbury adult literacy Page6 Tenants of Harvard and the Boston Technical Cen Project ADVANCE at Boston ter, Inc. Funding for the project is provided by the Technical Center teaches the 3 R's as stepping stones to career Alternative Education Initiative of the Mayor's training. Office of Jobs and Community Services and EDIC. I EDICITODAY 2 : SUMMER 1987 ! Why manufacturing? By Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director, Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston Should manufacturing be a topic of concern to people inter ested in the future of Boston? The service and financial sectors are hot in this City, while manufacturing has declined sharply. Today, most Boston jobs are in health care, banking, education, and professional services, not blue-collar manufacturing. So why worry about our manufacturing sector? Because manufacturing industries in Boston will expand sig Boston's largest manufacturing nificantly in the next five years, creating at least 5,000 new jobs industries (1985) and adding balance and diversity to the local economy. #of jobs (in thousands) How much of this growth we retain depends on our ability to 8 12 preserve and develop space in the City for manufacturers. Local manufacturers are growing "To preserve a Printing and Publishing EDIC's research indicates that several light manufacturing industries are growing in Boston. Top performers include print home for manu Fabricated Metals ing and publishing, medical instruments, construction mate facturing, Mayor rials, and controlling instruments. Employers in these fields Apparel added more than 4,000 new payrolls- averaging $24,500 a Flynn has year- between 1977 and 1985. Food proposed a Products These industries are healthy because they have become leaner and more productive. Many companies are streamlining new light manu Instruments their manufacturing processes with new technology and increasing sales by targeting regional markets. facturing zoning Services and manufacturing interdependent designation.'' But most significantly for Boston, local manufacturing and local Top performing Industrial sectors service and finance industries are dependent on each other. (job growth: 1977 -1985) Insurance companies, universities, and publishers need top quality printing close to home; hospitals and medical schools purchase millions of dollars worth of locally produced medical instruments and supplies; and commercial and residential.build Controlli ng ers save time and money purchasing materials in the Boston area. Instruments While manufacturing will not outperform Boston's service sector, manufacturing careers are very important to the City's Construction Machinery residents. Manufacturers offer high potential for career advancement to older workers, recent immigrants, and minori Periodicals Publishing ties. And manufacturing is accessible to neighborhood resi dents because industrial plants are widely distributed Medical throughout the City, with the largest concentrations in South In struments Boston, East Boston, Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury. Keeping blue-collar jobs in Boston The key to keeping these employers-and their high-paying jobs-in the City is quite basic: land. Boston's commercial building boom-and the resulting spec ulative pressures-are pushing the costs of industrial land up sharply. Between 1980 and 1986, industrial rents in the City increased 166% . This situation is stifling the expansion goals of Boston manufacturers and forcing many to leave the City. To preserve a home for manufacturing, Mayor Flynn has pro posed a new light manufacturing zoning designation. The Mayor is also calling for passage of legislation that will enhance job creation efforts in two areas of the City: Newmarket/South Bay in Roxbury and the former Boston State Hospital site in Mattapan. Adoption of legislation at the State level and new zoning con trols in the City are essential in order to capture the enormous benefits of the continuing manufacturing expansion. i ! EDICITODAY 3 ; SUMMER 1987 A long road for the Boston Armv Base The huge building on Drydock Avenue at the Marine Indus trial Park holds powerful mem ories for thousands of New England men. Veterans from World War II through the Vietnam era remember being herded bare foot along cold cement floors here and waiting in lines to be poked, prodded and probed by The Drydock Associates team: from left to right (standing) Army doctors. Timothy P. Doherty, Bay State Investors; Thomas W. Cornu, Cornu The V3 -mile-long base was Macomber Management Co.; David Wallace, Wallace, Floyd built during World War I as Associates; Byron Gilchrest, Macomber Development Associates; part of a military complex that Thomas P. O'Neill, Ill, Bay State Investors; (seated) Richard Taylor, included two naval drydocks. Taylor Properties; George Macomber, George B. H. Macomber Co .; By the second World War, the Christine Dunn, Dunn Associates. South Boston Naval Annex and Development good news for blue-collar employers and workers A unique team of development and real estate firms will reno vate 27-29 Drydock Avenue, the last unfinished section of the former Army Base at EDIC 's Marine Industrial Park. This $7 mil lion development by Drydock Associates will accomodate an estimated 500 blue-collar jobs when fully leased. Drydock Associates is a joint venture of Bay State Investors, Inc ., Macomber Development Associates, Taylor Properties, Inc. , and Dunn Associates. The development team projects that the 275,000-square-foot facility will be fully leased soon after Army Base were critical to the (Photos from top of page) A completion in the summer of 1988: ''We've already received war effort. More than 50,000 Boston Irish welcome for U.S. S. inquiries from many prospective tenants,'' explained Christine people worked around the clock The Sullivans, named after five Dunn, President of Dunn Associates. ''With the level of interest at the peak of the war, repair Sullivan brothers from Iowa who expressed so far, we could lease the entire facility and three ing and overhauling American died together in World War II . more of the same size. The demand for industrial space in and Allied ships. Tanks, weap In the 1960s the Base was an Boston is quite overwhelming.'' ons, and material were stock induction and administrative The development is a milestone in EDIC 's and the City of piled in the Army Base before center. Federal archive photo Boston's ongoing efforts to create and retain blue-collar jobs. being shipped overseas. showing railroad construction EDIC acquired the 1.6-million-square-foot building from the With peacetime, employ following World War I. Federal government in 1983. Following extensive renovations ment at the Navy and Army with private partners, five of six sections were developed as the facilities declined, and in 1974 Boston Design Center and the Bronstein Industrial Center. The the Nixon Administration new development will be a light manufacturing center similar closed the facility. EDIC pur to the adjacent Bronstein Center. chased the naval land in 1977 Drydock Associates will create a one-story pavillion- style and acquired the Army Base extension at the main in 1983 . entrance, which faces Boston A walk down the lush corri Harbor. The developer will dors of the Boston Design Cen also install new passenger ter or a view of the upcoming and freight elevators and a renovations will amaze veter fire protection system, and ans who remember the base construct a new loading from their first days in military dock Other improvements service. will include extensive repairs, exterior painting, and landscaping. EDICITODAY 4 SUMMER 1987 "We care about our neighborhood!" Approximately 100 residents of the Roxbury neighborhoods adjacent to Newmarket/South Bay wielded brooms, rakes, and trash bags to give their neighborhood a spring cleaning. Community groups such as the Orchard Park Tenants Association were helped out by the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services city-wide "Pickin' up the neighborhood" program. The Department of Public Works dispatched street sweepers and trucks to remove debris. EDIC provided food and · drink to the hard-working volunteers and helped publicize the Clean-up through Working Together, a monthly newsletter covering economic development in Newmarket. An economic heartland for Boston neighborhoods EDIC, community and business groups plan revitalization of Newmarket/South Bay C ommunity agencies, neighborhoods groups, and business owners are working with EDIC and planning consultant Stull and Lee to plan the revitalization of Newmarket/South Bay an inner-city industrial area in Roxbury. The process will culmi nate in the Fall with final recommendations to EDIC 's Board of Directors, the Mayor, and City Council. Key objectives of EDIC 's Industrial District Program include: reinforcing the light manufacturing nature of the area; attract ing new businesses and jobs; and creating a catalyst for revital ization of nearby neighborhoods. EDIC is also seeking to minimize or eliminate hazards such as trash-strewn lots and truck traffic on residential streets. "By helping Newmarket employers expand, and by devel oping the area to attract new businesses and jobs, we can strengthen Newmarket as an economic heartland,' ' remarked Jeanne Strain, Director of Neighborhood Programs for EDIC . "The momentum created in Newmarket will provide an eco nomic base for the nearby neighborhoods in Roxbury, the South End, Dorchester, and South Boston. '' Legislation to fund economic development in Newmarket is being considered by the Massachusetts Legislature. The $40 million State grant would be used to fund capital improvements such as new roads, sidewalks, sewers, and landscaping, as well as business assistance programs, job training, and development of parks and open space. In a late development, the Senate version of the economic aid bill was amended to prevent the $40 million from benefiting Newmarket unless the City reverses longstanding plans to con struct a resource recovery plant in the area. 1 I I I i EDICITODAY 5 ; SUMMERffi87 NEW IN THE PARKS Art at the Park P atricia Gleason Fuller is the new consultant for EDIC 's Art, Access and Amenities program. Ms. Fuller has advised on and managed public art programs in Dade County, Florida and Seattle, Washington, as well as the "Art in Public Places" pro gram of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Public art will be a key element in EDIC 's overall plan to enhance public access to and understanding of the Marine Industrial Park Art, Access and Amenities will integrate art with new landscaping, traffic improvements, pedestrian ameni ties, and other design features. The program will also include public events, tours, and other activities. A local artists selection committee appointed by EDIC will invite artists to develop proposals for art projects. EDIC has received a grant from the NEA to plan the program. Additional funds will be raised to commission the art projects. Senator Edward M. Kennedy attended restoration ceremonies at the Marine Industrial Park's Drydock 3 for the U.S .S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. , the Destroyer named after the Senator's late brother. The Senator was joined Neighborhood Services lent by, from left, State Majority tools to the effort and provided Whip Robert Correia, EDIC each participant with a ''Pickin' Director Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, up the Neighborhood'' T-Shirt, and Stanley M. Gower, Presi hat, and bags. dent of the U.S.S. Massachu setts Memorial Committee. New Hub ale welcomed to Marine Industrial Park £DIC Deputy Director of Oper ations Jack Dalziel took the occasion of the opening of Mass. Bay Brewing Company at the Marine Industrial Park to pen a short tribute to the new brew : Here's to those who brew the ales; Here's to those who make the sales. A hearty toast to a new brew: Here's to the people of this Rich Doyle (bottom) and George great Hub, Ligetti, owners of Mass. Bay And here's to Harpoon in Brewing Co ., celebrating the every pub! brewery's opening. Dan Kenary (not shown) is also a partner in the new venture. I /EDIC!TODAY 6 SUMMER 1987 I CAREER TRAINING STARS for Industry STARS program acquaints students with printing careers. Students from Boston public schools have been getting a behind-the-scenes look at the printing industry in Boston and tips on how they can qual ify for careers in printing. East Boston High School stu dents recently toured the print ing plant of New England Litho, a major Boston printer located at the Marine Industrial Park. The tour was part of STARS FOR INDUSTRY, a cooperative program of EDIC and School Opening career doors: Project ADVANCE students use computer systems to learn the basics and prepare for technical job training. Above: ADVANCE instructor Joan Ford instructs student Blanca Capetillo in computer usage. Below: ADVANCE graduate Loc Due Diep is congratulated by Boston Technical Center Director Richard K. Fields. Project ADVANCE promotes adult literacy In its second year of operation, Project ADVANCE at EDIC 's Boston Technical Center (BTC) has graduated 73 adult students and achieved statewide recognition for innovative use of com puter teaching systems. East Boston High students learn Volunteers for Boston. ''The adult basic education provided at ADVANCE prepares about jobs in the printing trade Along with an overview of students to enter training for technical jobs with good career from Rick Ferrante of New the printing trade, students prospects,' ' explained BTC Coordinator of Adult Education England Lithograph. learned that there are many job Stuart Gedal. ''Basic literacy is a must for a range of technical opportunities with Boston jobs, from welder to medical secretary. '' printers and that many workers Mr. Gedal credits the program's' 'results orientation and sup advance to technically skilled, portive atmosphere' ' for its success in helping adult learners higher-paying positions after master the three R's. starting at entry-level jobs. Mr. Gedal, Joan Ford, and Elizabeth Cohen of the ADVANCE "There's a tremendous staff use computer systems to tailor learning to the needs of stu need for people in the printing dents and to help them become computer literate. industry in Boston, particularly The use of computers skilled and semi -skilled labor, '' at ADVANCE-achieved with remarked Jack Galvin, Presi funding from Lotus Develop dent of New England Litho. ment Corporation-has been ''Entry level salaries have been so successful that the Massa rising, and may be as high as chusetts Department of Edu $10 per hour.' ' cation has contracted with the EDIC is planning more BTC to produce a computer STARS FOR INDUSTRY field guide and curriculum as a trips for students to become model for adult literacy pro acquainted with printing and grams throughout the State. other industries. For more information, contact Dianne Jones at 725-3342. EDICITODAY 7 SUMMER 1987 The Economic Development New industrial and Industrial Corporation real estate source of Boston EDIC/Boston is the economic EDIC will publish Boston development agency of the City of Site Finder Boston with a mandate to retain and create industrial jobs within the City. To assist light manufacturing EDIC employs its public powers and and industrial firms to locate resources to maintain, expand, and appropriate space in Boston, create industrial and commercial EDIC is publishing the Boston activity that will have the most SiteFinder. favorable impact on the economic development of the City. Through The SiteFinder contains industrial development, job train listings of industrial space ing, financial assistance, and other available in the City of Bos services, EDIC promotes access for ton-approximately 130 sites. City residents to promising jobs and The publication contains com careers. The corporation also seeks to plete information on parcel enhance the productivity of land and buildings in Boston's neighborhoods and building size and charac and to foster a healthy and diversified teristics, broker or owner con City economy. tacts, transportation, parking, (Left to Right) Greg Simmons, Eddie Welch, and Mark Bennett of utilities, and other important EDIC Board of Directors P.J. O'Donnell. details. Chairman Use the form on the back Stuart J. Vidockler Building business cover of EDIC/TODAY to order Vice President, your copy. Salomon Brothers Vice Chairman Construction supplier expands in Dorchester Kevin C. Phelan Senior Vice President, B oston's building boom is proving to be good for many neigh Meredith & Grew, Inc. borhood-based small businesses. Donald A. Gillis Business is going so well for the P.J . O'Donnell Company, a Director, construction material supplier with 44 years in Boston, that the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood firm has purchased new quarters near Andrew Square. They Services received financing help from the Boston Local Development J.D. Nelson Corporation (BLDC), an affiliate of EDIC. Senior Vice President, As is the case with all BLDC-arranged financing, the loan State Street Bank & Trust Company combines public and private capital sources: a $350,000 loan Arthur F. F. Snyder from the Bank of New England; $280,000 through the Small Vice Chairman, Business Administration 504 program; and $70,000 in United States Trust Co. owner equity. Fletcher H. Wiley, Esq. Since its inception, the BLDC has assembled more than Partner, $23 million in plant, construction, and equipment loans for Budd, Wiley & Richlin 38 companies. Director Marilyn Swartz Lloyd EDIC honors ten-year employees EDIC/TODAY is published by the Public Affairs and In this age of mobility and Construction; Bob Scadding, Marketing Department of transition, EDIC proudly Maintenance Mechanic/Driver; EDIC. Telephone: (617) celebrated the ten-year anni Robert Shea, General Super 725-3342 versaries of eleven agency intendent; and Jim Tench, Director of Public Affairs employees this Spring: Maintenance Mechanic. All Karen Fawcett Joe Bergamo, Maintenance were presented with auto Communications Manager Mechanic; Kay Cicerone, graphed photographs of them Jim Hight Payroll/Personnel Assistant; selves with Mayor Raymond L. Communications Coordinator George Cirignano, Mainte Flynn. Jim Me Farland nance Mechanic; Chris Con Robert Adams and Buddy Staff Assistant nors, Maintenance Mechanic; Logue, former maintenance Dianne Jones Barbara Curtin, Staff Assis mechanics who retired early Photography tant; Ed Flaherty, Purchasing due to disability, were pre Bob Howard and Inventory Coordinator; sented with aerial photographs Design Jim Harrington, Electrician; of the Marine Industrial Park. Sheaff Design Peter Nicholson, Director of I EDIC IT 0 0 A Y I The Newsletter of the Economic Development Bulk Rate US Postage and Industrial Corporation of Boston PAID EDIC!Boston Boston MA Permit No.201 38 Chauncy Street Boston, Massachusetts 02111 (617) 725-3342 Address Correction Requested Starting a new business in Boston? Expanding? ...... Relocating within the City? 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Clip and mail this form to order your copy: Raymondl Flynn Mayor MantynSwartzl\oYd , Oifet\Or Name Address Enclose check for $50.00 and mail to: EDIC, Policy & Research City Zip 38 Chauncy Street Boston, Massachusetts 02111 (617) 725-3342 Phone Traduci6n en Espanol Tradu~ao Portuguesa DIC/Boston Newmarket Edition ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS August, 1987 Nights at the Roundtable "Sketch planning" allows maximum community input With urgency and concern, area residents and business owners have been telling City planners what's right and what's wrong with New market-- and what must be done to make the area better serve its users and neighbors. Residents review Newmarket plans (left to right): Bruce Rose, planning consultant In a series of evening meetings David Lee, Josephine Maury, Keith Kanemoto, and Richard Mangariello. sponsored by the Newmarket Roundtable, people concerned with Urban Design the future of the district have focused Stull and Lee staff presented ideas $40 million for on urban design, housing and open for improving the image of the Newmarket held up space, economic development, and Newmarket area to attract new traffic and parking. businesses and employees. Urban in State Senate At the meetings, various "sketch design scenarios and tools to create Once again legislation to provide plans" proposed by master planning open space, parks, and landscaped $40 million of State funding for the consultants Stull and Lee have been "buffers" that reinforce the residen revitalization of Newmarket has thoroughly critiqued and reviewed. tial quality of neighborhoods were become bogged down because of "The plans are presented in an early discussed. differences between the Senate and draft stage, allowing ample opportu Housing and Open Space House. nity for input from residents and While Newmarket is being In a late development, the Senate business owners," explained David developed as a Neighborhood version of the economic aid bill was Lee, President of Stull and Lee. Industrial District, there are parallel amended to prevent $40 million from "The consultants are really opportunities to create and improve going to Newmarket unless the City listening," remarked Bruce Rose, housing and open space. Parcels of reverses long-standing plans to President of the Pompei St. Neigh land where new housing and parks construct a resource recovery plant borhood Association and a par could be developed were identified, in the area. ticipant in several meetings. "The and the means for upgrading existing "Of course we hope this can be plans look good; they need to be housing were discussed. In addition, resolved," remarked Jeff McNary of · worked on, but that's what these a slide presentation was shown to the Governor's Office of Economic meetings are for." illustrate landscaping measures that Development. "The business owners The following were highlights of can make industrial buildings and residents in the area are counting the Roundtable meetings. attractive in neighborhood settings. on the benefits that will come with continued on page 2 funding of this nature." Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director ------ ''The potential benefits cannot be overstated'' City Council President Bruce Bolling on Economic Development in Newmarket The economic development of Newmarket/South Bay presents an These are legitimate concerns. opportunity that is unique in the Businesses that pose a hazard to history of this City. neighbors -- such as illegal trash $40 million in public funding from transfer stations -- must be closed, the State can leverage private invest while clean light industry is expanded ment that will transfonn this area into and attracted. New jobs in Newmarket an engine of economic growth for the must be made available to neighbor entire area. hood residents through training and From the perspective of neigh outreach programs. borhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester, These concerns can only be South Boston, and the South End, addressed by providing residents with economic growth in Newmarket is concrete infonnation and by allowing critical. New businesses in New them to influence planning. The market will create good job oppor process so far has been encouraging. tunities for residents and encourage The potential benefits of this type of commercial and retail development in public-private investment in Boston's Dudley St., Uphams Comer and other inner city cannot be overstated. I look commercial areas. There is already a lot of excitement forward to seeing the process go The key to making it work is and enthusiasm for this project, but forward and to encouraging the bringing together neighborhood some neighborhood people may be approval of an appropriate Master Plan residents to work with the public and wondering: "How will I benefit from when it comes before the City private sectors in planning the economic prosperity in Newmarket? Council. development scenario. Can industry be a good neighbor?" continued from front page City closes On Friday, July 24, Mayor Flynn Economic Development illegal trash transfer and City health officials chained the Business executives and neighbor gates shut at both sites and ordered hood residents discussed economic stations extra police patrols to ensure that the opportunities and problems in New businesses do not re-open illegally. market, responding to planners' Health and Hospitals "People in the neighborhoods suggestions and endorsed several Commission cites health adjacent to these illegal trash busi ideas: pooling job training and recruitment efforts geared to neighbor nesses have suffered long enough," threat; City agencies moving hood residents; improving the security against other violators Mayor Flynn said. "The situation was and image of the area to attract becoming a crisis, especially with the businesses and workers; and develop Responding to vivid testimony from summer heat." ing banks, stores, restaurants and other Newmarket area residents, the Board Meanwhile, the Newmarket amenities for workers and residents. of Trustees of the City's Department Roundtable has been working with the of Health and Hospitals ordered K & City's Inspectional Services, Public Traffic and Parking C Disposal on Norfolk Ave. to be Facilities, and Neighborhood Services The problem of truck traffic closed as a "nuisance and source of departments to push several property emerged as a major concern, and participants discussed traffic patterns filth." The Commission also ordered a owners to clean their trash-strewn lots. to ease traffic on residential streets. Lots on Cedric and Magazine Street similar business on East Cottage St. in Making several streets one-way and Dorchester closed. are being cleaned and fenced while encouraging all traffic to enter and exit criminal complaints have been lodged via clearly-marked "Gateways" were against owners of other lots. also explored as possible solutions. "Pianos Desenhados" Desenvolvimento Economico ficado entulado por causa de diferen~as Executivos de neg6cio e residentes da entre o Senado e a Casa de Repre permete maximo vizinhan~a endossarem varias ideias: sentatives do Estado. participa~ao da formando instru~ao de emprego e Num desenvolvimente tarde a versao comunidade esforces de recrutamente para atrair e do Senado da proposta da lei de ajuda treinar residentes da vizinhan~a; econ6mica foi emendada para impdeir Com urgencia e interesse residentes melhorando medidas de seguran~a; $40 milhoes de ir para "Newmarket" sem da area e proprietaries teem estado a aperfei~oando a imagem da area para a Cidade inverter pianos atrazados para dizer aos autors dos pianos da cidade o atrair negocios e trabalhadores; e construir uma fabrica de recupera~ao de que esta borneo que esta mal com desenvolvendo bancos, armazens, recursos na area. "Newmarket"-- e o que tern que ser feito restaurontes e outros amenidades para "N6s desejamos que isto podedera ser para fazer a area servir melhor os que trabalhadores e residentes. resolvido," notou Jeff McNary de fazem uso da area e os vizinhos da area. Trafico e Estacionamente de Veiculos Oficina de Gobemador de Desen Ideias principal das reuniaos de Mesa 0 problema do trafico de camioes volvimento Economico. "Newmarket". Redonda de Newmarket inclui: emergi como o assunto principal da "Os proprietaries e residentes desta area Designio Urbano comunidade, e participantes discutirem estao numa esperan~a de alcan~ar os Conselheiros de pianos Stull e Lee carreiras do tnifico para aliviar o beneficios dos fundos." apresentarao ideias para aperfei~oar a problema. Fazendo varias ruas decerta imagem da area de "Newmarket" para direc~ao e encorajando todo o trafico Cidade feicha esta~oes atrair neg6cios e empregados novos. para entrar e sair via o "Gateways" foram ilegais que transferem lixo Cenarios de designio urbano e fer explorados tambem como meios de Respondende a testemunha vivido dos ramenta para criar espa~o aberto e aliviar os problemas do trafico. residentes da area "Newmarket" a parques que refor~a a qualidade residen Comissao da Saude e de Hospitais da cial de vizinhan~as foram discutidos. $40 Milhoes Para Cidade ordenarem "K & C Disposal" no Residencias e Espaces Abertos "Newmarket" esta adiado no "Norfolk St." para ser fechado sendo urn Parcelas de terreno donde residencias Senado do Estado "incomode e uma fonte de sujedade." A Comissao tambem fechou urn negocio e parques novos podiam ser desen Outra vez legisla~ao para prever $40 vovidos forem endentificados e os meios paredico no "East Cottage St." em milhoes de fundos do Estado para "Dorchester." para melhorar residencias que existem revivifica~ao de "Newmarket" tern forem discutidos. continua na ultima pagina Nuevas asuntos sobre Desarrollo economico Newmarket ha sido obstruida por Ejecutfvos de negocios y residentes deferencias entre el Senado y Ia Casa de Newmarket del vecindario endorsaron algunas ideas Representantes. Con urgencia y gran preocupaci6n, tal como: Reunir los esfuerzos para La version del Senado sobre el los residentes y los comerciantes del area entrenamiento y reclutamiento de proyecto de ayuda economica fue le comunicaron a los planificadores de Ia trabajadores para asf atraer y entrenar enmendada para prevenir que los $40 ciudad los puntos positivos y negativos residentes del vecindario; Mejorar las millones pasaran al area de Newmarket, que estan afectando a el vecindario de medidas para asf fortalezer el imagen del a menos que Ia Ciudad ponga en marcha Newmarket, y le han proveido sugeren area para estimular Ia atracci6n de atras sus planes para construir una planta cias para resolver Ia situaci6n en bancos, tiendas, restaurantes y otros de recursos recuperativos de desperdicios beneficio de Ia communidad. servicios convenientes para trabajadores en el area. Algunos puntos ejemplares de y residentes. "Nosotros esperamos que esto pueda conferencias de Ia Mesa Redonda de Trafico y estacionmento ser resuelto," reclarno Jeff McNary de Ia Newmarket incluyen: El problema del trruico de camiones oficina de desarrollo economico del Diseilo Urbano result6 ser una de las preocupaciones Gobemador. "Los comerciantes y los Planificadores de Ia compania Stull & principales. Los participantes dis residentes en esta area estan contando Lee presentaron sus ideas para mejorar el cutieron los patrones de trafico que con estos fondos." imagen del area de Newmarket para asf podrfan aliviar el problema. Formando atraer nuevos negocios y empleados. algunas calles de direcci6n singular y La Ciudad cierra Tambien discutieron diferentes aspectos canalizar el transito para que se entre y estacionamientos de de disefD urbano, y otros metodos para se salga por Ia avenida central Mas basuseros ilegales crear areas verdes para mejorar Ia calidad sachusetts y Melnea Cass tam bien fueron Respondiendo a un testimonio de los residencial del vecindario. explonidas como forma para aliviar residentes del area de Newmarket Ia Vivienda y areas verdes algunos problemas de trruico. Comisi6n de Salud y Hospitales de Terreno donde nuevas viviendas y Boston ordenaron que el cierre de Ia parques pueden ser desarrollados fueron Fueron obtenidos $40 Compania de Desperdicios K & C identificado iqualque las formas para millones para el area de situada en Ia calle Norfolk por razon de mejorar viviendas existentes fueron Newmarket en el Senado que representa "una molestia y una discutidas. fuente de suciedad". La Comision Una vez mas, Ia legislacion que tambien cerro negocios similares en Ia proverfa $40 millones en fondos calle East Cottage en Dorchester. Estatales para revivfficar Ia area de pasa a Ia ultima pagina Bulk Rate US Postage WorkingTogether PAID Boston MA Permit No.201 The Neighborhood Newsletter of the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston EDICI Boston 38 Chauncy Street Boston, Massachusetts 02111 617-725-3342 Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director Board of Directors Chairman Stuart J . Vidockler Vice Chairman Kev in C. Phelan Donald A. Gillis J.D. Nelson Arthur F. F. Snyder Fletcher H. Wil ey. Esq . Published by the Public Affairs and Marketing Department of EDIC. 617-725-3342 Presldente del Consejo ayudados. Nuevos trabajos en New Neg6cios novos vAo produzir boas market deben estar disponibles para los oportunidades de servi~os para . Municipal Bruce Bolllng en residentes del vecindario por medio de residentes e encorajar desenvolvimente el desarrollo economico de entrenamiento y programas que le comercial e retalho no "Dudley St.", Newmarket infonnen a Ia comunidad todos los "Uphams Corner" e em outras areas nuevos servicios y programas. comerciais. El desarrollo econ6mico de Los beneficios potenciales de este 0 utensilio para fazer isto trabalhar e Newmarket/South Bay representa una tipo de inverci6n publica y privada en Ia juntAndo os residentes da vizinhan~a oportunidad unica en Ia historia de esta cuidad de Boston no pueden ser para trabalhar com os sectores publicos e Ciudad. exagerados. Yo espero ver que el privates nos piAnos do senario de $40 millones en fondos publicos del proceso siga adelante y estimular Ia desenvolvimente. Estado pueden estimular inverciones que aprobacion de un plan maestro cuando Neg6cios que trazem perigo para a fomentarfan el crecimiento economico este sea presentado ante a el Consejo vizinhanca -- como estacoes ilegais que en todo el area de Newmarket. Municipal. transferem lixo -- teem que ser fechadas Nuevos comercios en el area de enquanto industria limpa e leve e Newmarket creanin buenas opor expandida e atraida. Servicos novos em tunidades de trabajo para los residentes y 0 Presidente do Conselho da Cidade Bruce Bolling "Newmarket" teem que ser feite animaran el desarrollo comercial y vantajosos para os residentes da negocios de ventas por menor en las fala arespeito do vizinhan~a per maneira de programas de calles de Dudley, Up hams Corner y en desenvolvimento econ6mico treimir e alcan~ar. otras areas comerciales. Os beneficios potencial deste tipo de La clave para que esto trabaje es em "Newmarket" 0 desenvolvimento economico de investimento publico-private no interior unificando a los residentes del vecindario da cidade de Boston nao pode ser para que trabajen en union con el sector "Newmarket/South Bay" apresenta uma exagerado. Eu tenho esperan~a em ver publico y privado en el plan de desar oportunidade que e unico ha hist6ria of procedimente seguir para diante e para rollo de Newmarket. desta cidade. encorajar a prova~Ao de urn plano mestre Comercios que representen peligro a $40 milhoes em fundos publicos do Estado pode influenciar investimentos proprio quando vier diante do Conselho los vecinos -- como el deposito ilegal de da Cidade. basura -- deben ser cerrados, mientras las privates que hao de istemular crescen~a industrias leves y limpias crecen y son economica para a area toda. Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Jobs for residents. Help for industrv. How one region, one city, and one source can help your company make the most of its opportunities veryone knows that Boston has a glorious past. But for businesses looking for a place to grow, the City's future may be even more impressive. As the focal point of a revitalized New England economy, Boston is ideally positioned to help you tap into growing regional and national markets. And within Boston itself, both the resources and the demo graphics continue to favor new industrial ventures. While the City's service economy is expanding vigorously, many neighborhoods Continued recog remain exceptionally attractive and cost-effective for industry. Mod nition of the role ernized facilities, a sizable pool of skilled labor, and a tradition of of small busi nesses has local employment can often make neighborhood manufacturing brought new life more than competitive with suburban industrial park locations. to the neighbor Best of all, EDIC/Boston is making it easier than ever to take hoods and jobs for Boston resi advantage of these opportunities. Whether it's finding a suitable site, dents. Under one providing project financing, supplying trained workers, or consulting recent develop ment package, on other aspects of the development process, we're well qualified to the Dutch Maid help you build your business-while also helping City residents Bakery will ex through the creation of new jobs. pand its ope,.. ations in a 12,000. EDIC/Boston. Whatever your industry, whatever your needs, square-foot facili· we can help you grow-in Boston, and with Boston. tyat EDIC's Alsen-Mapes Industrial Park. Behind the Boston Design Center's stunning facade Is one of the great· est concentrations of furniture, fabric, flooring and accessories wholesalers In the country. This 550,000..square-foot facility, which opened In 1986 at EDIC's Marine Industrial Park, is less than five minutes from downtown. Public/private sector partnerships are essential to ensuring a continuing flow of job opportunities for Boston's youth. Mayor Raymond Flynn and Boston Private Industry Council Board member Jack McElwee are shown discussing programs of the Boston Technical Center, an EDIC affiliate that has trained over 2000 Industrial and service workers. Banker, broker, developer, job trainer: custom-tailored services for everyone from small business to Fortune 500. ith a nationwide reputation as a center of sci ence, technology, and venture capital, you'd expect Boston to be a favorable proving-ground for start up industries. But with its large and diverse labor force and wide variety of neighborhood-based industrial sites, the City is equally well suited to the needs of com panies in more mature industries. And at EDIC/Boston, we're ready to help in several ways. Banker. In less than a decade, we've supplied financing for over $120 million in industrial development projects. We provide the staffing and support for the Boston Local Development Corporation, which helps businesses through a combination of financing mech anisms including Small Business Administration loans and the BLOC's own Targeted Revolving Loan Fund. We issue industrial development bonds through another affiliate, the Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority. And we're also the people to talk to for packaging other forms of federal and state financial assistance. Finally, we can act as an intermediary between companies who need financing and the large number of private financing sources Industrial Park's available in Boston. The result of all this activity has been a steady Building 114 is home to many increase in the number of companies we've been able to help traditional New and the preservation and creation of thousands of jobs in Boston's England indus· neighborhoods. tries, such as Bay State Bindery, Corona Curtain, and New England Uthograph. Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang l.aboratorles and Teradyne are among several "'tlgh·tech" firms that have made maJor commit· mentsto Boston-based manufacturing. .,~~i4 Welders, machine-tool operators, :l1i and other specialists have been trained since 1977 at EDIC's Boston Technical Center, located at the Marine Industrial Parle. Broker. Our SiteFinder and real estate referral programs have helped hundreds of companies buy or lease buildings or open land throughout the City. By putting prospective owners and tenants in touch with each other, we've simplified their tasks while encouraging the productive use of over 76 million square feet of industrial space. Developer. With 200 acres of prime industrial property under our management, we're one of the leading industrial developers in Boston. EDIC tenants occupy over 3 million square feet of modern ized manufacturing space at locations ranging from Boston's water front to the neighborhoods of Roxbury and Dorchester. And with aggressive research and marketing on our part, more new facilities are becoming available. Job Trainer. Having the right facilities is only part of the pic ture. We've also taken steps to ensure that you'll find an able, trained workforce. Our Boston Technical Center, Inc. is a licensed trade and business school that has provided nearly 2000 Boston residents with skills needed by growing organizations. We've trained-and placed-everyone from welders and machine-tool operators to electronic technicians and medical secretaries. Should your com pany have its own special employment needs, we'll be glad to work with you to find effective ways to meet them. Royal Label was the first tenant In the EDIC-owned Alsen-Mapes Industrial Parle, located off the Southeast Expressway in Dorchester. Alsen-Mapes tenants now include Esquire/Wicket Limited, a necktie manufacturer; Arborway Metals, a metal fabri cator; and Dutch Maid Bakery. Advanced Electronics, a minority owned manufacturer of printed circuit boards, received financing through the Boston Local Develop ment Corporation, staffed by EDIC/Boston. We've alreadv helped over 500 companies. l.et us help vou, too. hether you're looking for a cost-effective local manufacturing site, or a base of operations for the entire New England region, EDIC/Boston can put you in touch with the best opportunities in Boston. We are aggressively seeking new sites for development and new ways to help companies grow in Boston. And we're a knowledgeable and seasoned partner to work with as over 500 other successfurcompanies can testify. For more information on specific ways we can help you, call us today at (617) 725-3342. Strong working relationships between EDIC and Boston's leading financial Institutions have helped hundreds of companies obtain favorable financing. Shown here with £DIC Director Marilyn Swartz Uoyd Is Sank of New England Presi dent Richard D. EDIC/Boston Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor ~~~ Ne~w England Lithe EXECUTIVE & SALES OFFICES EDIC/Boston 38 Chauncy Street Boston , Massachusetts 02111 ~i/~) (617) 725-3342 ::..----- ... ~ Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, Director Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor