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Council Member Schulman inquires about union jobs and local business support for Queen's Future project
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Council Member Lynn Schulman questions Michael Sullivan of Queens Future LLC about the number of union jobs and support for local businesses that will result from the Queen's Future/Metropolitan Park project. Sullivan provides details on job creation, vendor opportunities, and collaboration with the Queens Chamber of Commerce.
- The project is expected to create 23,000 jobs: 17,000 for construction and 12,100 for long-term staffing.
- Queens Future LLC is organizing vendor fairs and partnering with local workforce development organizations to involve local businesses.
- The Queens Chamber of Commerce is actively supporting the project and helping connect with local small businesses.
Lynn Schulman
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How many union jobs will result from this project and how will you support local businesses?
Michael Sullivan
0:42:41
Thanks for the question, council member.
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It's 23,000 jobs, about 17,000 to build it, about 12,100 or so to staff it long term.
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We're gonna need a lot of local small business vendors to help support this project.
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Hard Rock has already been on-site in the neighborhoods around us doing vendor fairs to help make our local small businesses in Queens aware of these different opportunities.
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We've signed up a number of different local workforce development partners that are also gonna help us with this.
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It's everything you can imagine, council member, you know, local florist to put flowers on the tables on the conference and meeting areas.
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It's local laundromats to help wash sheets and towels.
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It's locksmiths.
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It's every kind of local vendor you can imagine, over 90 of them that we're gonna need to partner with to help us with this project.
Lynn Schulman
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Are you working with the Queen's Chamber of Commerce?
Michael Sullivan
0:43:37
We are.
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We are very proud to have the strong support of the Queen's Chamber.
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They've been present in every community board meeting, speaking out in favor of this project.
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Tom Grech has really just been a tremendous ally and we really support appreciate their support, but also that connection that they bring us to our local small businesses.
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It's a it's a team effort and we're really proud to have them helping us.
Lynn Schulman
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Okay.
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Thank you, chair.