whiteplainsfamily - Musings and commentary on the city of White Plains, New York
Description: Musings and commentary on the city of White Plains, New York
More than 5 months removed from the first coronavirus-related shutdowns, the enormity of the damage it has done is hard to overstate. Nationally, we have lost more than 175,000+ Americans. More locally, while there are signs of “life returning to normal,” multiple businesses in White Plains have closed their doors permanently, and we now find ourselves… Read More »
White Plains has potential to be a great city. For years, we’ve been falling short of that potential, with a stagnant local economy, multiple vacant storefronts, and an abundance of stagnated development projects which currently sit as holes in the ground or vacant buildings. Sales tax revenues have failed to keep pace with the rest… Read More »
For at least six years, our city’s budget documents have portrayed a stagnant local economy. Specifically, they have said multiple times that “[t]he path to economic recovery continues to be slow and incremental,” and that the city is restrained, without raising property taxes further, in its “ability to maintain the City in peak condition and… Read More »
whiteplainsfamily - Musings and commentary on the city of White Plains, New York