<div><p>On Monday, Ken Fisher made his way to his first directors’ meeting for Governors Island. An attorney, former councilman and chairman of the advocacy group Governors Island Alliance, Mr. Fisher had never been to the board meetings of the island’s operating agency at the 41st Street state office building, preferring to stay more ...

<div><p>Avi Schick, the prosecutor-turned-development official who has served as downstate president of the Empire State Development Corporation for the past two years, will leave his job this week. Mr. Schick emailed a letter on Monday evening to colleagues announcing his departure (a copy of the letter is below). </p><p&gt ...

<div><p>Mayor Bloomberg called today for the dismantling of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state's main agency involved in downtown redevelopment, advocating in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Governor Paterson "hand over its development responsibilities to the city." </p><p> </p><p>From the ...

<div><p>The state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, kicked off the public process for eminent domain for Columbia University's 17-acre West Harlem expansion today, starting a final chapter in the approvals for the contentious $7 billion initiative. </p><p>In announcing the process, ESDC President Avi ...