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Re: FALSE Re: CBO Forecasts that by 2017 over 2 Million will leave the job market due to Obamacare |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 9 13:45:23 2014, in response to Re: FALSE Re: CBO Forecasts that by 2017 over 2 Million will leave the job market due to Obamacare, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 9 13:42:56 2014. Here's the text, as I think you may need a log in after a few days for that newspaper...but I "think" it's public when it first comes out, or the main stories:Photo By Rendering courtesy of RD Management LLC: Portion of a rendering of BJ’s Wholesale Club in Bellport. BJ’s is progressing Story By: LINDA LEUZZI, 06 February 2014 Richard Birdoff, a partner of Al Rosenberg at RD Management LLC in New York City, answered questions via email to the Advance regarding the proposed BJ’s Wholesale Club on the south side of the Sunrise Highway Service Road off Station Road in Bellport. Site plans were filed with Brookhaven Town in February 2013. The 87,788-square-foot retail store will occupy 10-plus acres on the former Bellport Outlet Shopping Center site on Station Road. According to Birdoff, 23.78 percent of the site will be pervious. There will be trees planted along the Sunrise Service Road wrapping around to Station Road by the Royal Oak Diner and Martha Avenue. BJ’s will be the sole retail store on the parcel. Advance: How many people does BJ’s plan to hire locally? Birdoff: BJ’s expects to fill 80 part-time and eight full-time positions. BJ’s will give priority to job seekers from the local community. The company will accept applications for the Bellport site on CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com as well as BJ’s career site called Careersmovehere.com. Advance: What store management positions will be available? Birdoff: BJ’s intends to hire 10 to 15 managers for Bellport. The management team will comprise residents in and around Bellport as well as managers from other BJ’s locations. Advance: What specifically will BJ’s sell at this location? Birdoff: BJ’s will offer members significant savings on groceries and general merchandise, including premium consumer electronics and brand-name appliances. Additionally, the club will feature a fresh bakery, full service deli, optical services and a tire bay. Advance: Will there be a trailer on-site? Birdoff: There is already a construction trailer on the site; we are checking with BJ’s as to whether they will have a hiring trailer on-site, but in any event we are advised that, as indicated above, BJ’s will give priority to applicants from the local community. Advance: How many construction workers will be on-site? Are they local hires? Birdoff: There will be approximately 150 to 250 construction workers employed at the site at various times. All construction contracts will be awarded based on competitive pricing, provided that the contractors are responsive and responsible. There will be both union and non-union contractors in that this is an open-shop project. Where possible, preference will be given to local contractors. To date, contractors that have been selected have their offices in Bellport, East Setauket, Farmingville, Seaford, Huntington, Plainview and West Hempstead. Comments about BJ’s commitment The old Bellport Outlet shopping center on the south side of the Sunrise Highway Service Road off Station Road was purchased in 2004 by Al Rosenberg. Stores like Nike, Maidenform, Welcome Home, Marty’s Shoes, 9 West, Van Heusen and Liz Claiborne were operating then and Rosenberg said in a previous interview that the shopping center had a 50 percent occupancy rate. Those businesses wanted to stay, he said, but wanted others to come. But the Tanger Mall, which opened in Riverhead in 1999, began taking its toll, and Rosenberg couldn’t attract more businesses. The property was eventually fenced in to prevent vandalism; former Brookhaven Town Supervisor Mark Lesko termed it a Blight to Light site. Councilwoman Connie Kepert, who had been working for at least three years on getting BJ’s into the community, commented she would have liked to have a hiring trailer on-site. “But if we get the word out where people could apply via the websites through the Advance, that’s a good thing,” she said. “The big fight was to give preference to those residents in the Bellport area in need of jobs so I’m very happy to hear that they will. We want to make sure that this will go as planned, and we’ll meet with [Greater Bellport Coalition chairman] John Rogers, the Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area, the Bellport Hagerman East Patchogue Alliance and the South Country School District to get the word out. We worked hard on the site plan so my focus is getting as many jobs for the people of Bellport as planned.” Former BHEP executive director Helen Martin, who supported Kepert’s efforts, said BJ’s commitment sounded great. “I hope they can find the quota of people from the community,” she said. “I would also hope they train the hires for the managers’ jobs. We need that and it’s in walking distance.” |
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