Kevin Younis is the chief operating officer and executive deputy commissioner of New York’s Empire State Development agency. He’s leading the state’s efforts to bring Micron Technology to Clay.
Bellevue Avenue, where I grew up, has been on the nation’s “persistent poverty census tracts” for four-and-a-half decades. After generations of economic decline, Bellevue Avenue and neighborhoods across the region are on the precipice of massive economic growth.
Today, we are one step closer to over 50,000 new permanent jobs, tens of thousands of construction jobs, and a growth rate not seen in Central New York since the 1950s…