Kreamer details Choose NYC borough chamber outreach
Kreamer adds that Choose NYC intentionally spread opportunity across the five boroughs. He says the summit had tabling for each borough led by chambers, a panel with chamber presidents, and site visits to the Bronx, Long Island City, and downtown Brooklyn.
Councilmember, can I add one thing to my answer before that I neglected to mention?
For the Choose NYC Summit and the work that we do and that work in general, we are very intentional at thinking about how do we take global economic interest in New York City and making sure that that opportunity gets spread across the five boroughs.
And so some of the ways that we enacted that for the Choose NYC program during the World Cup is twofold.
At the summit itself, we had...
Tabling for each of the five boroughs.
to have materials that were led by each of the five chambers, and it also included some participation from some of the business improvement districts.
We also had a panel discussion where the five presidents of the chambers were also speaking to the audience about the various resources and virtues of why a business should open up in their neighborhood.
We took it a step further, where the day after the conference, we organized for interested businesses a tour of different neighborhoods in New York City, and so we took businesses and what we call lead generators, so these are
Organizations that work with businesses are making site decisions, and we brought them to the Bronx in partnership with the Bronx Chamber of Commerce.
We brought them to Long Island City with the Long Island City Partnership.
We brought them to downtown Brooklyn with the downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
And so those were some real ways that we are also trying to take that economic activity and bring it across the five rows during the World Cup.