IN BRIEF | Westchester County Callahan Construction Managers opens White Plains office Callahan Construction Managers, a Bridgewater, Massachusetts-based construction management company, has opened an of�ice in White Plains. The new of�ice is the �irst regional outpost for Callahan, which was founded in 1954 and focuses on multifamily residential, senior and affordable housing, hospitality, life sciences, corporate of�ice, educational and retail developments in the Northeast. Within this region, Callahan’s projects have included the Danforth Apartments in Dobbs Ferry, Benchmark at Split Rock in Shelton and Maplewood in Darien.
STUDY: YONKERS IS THE SECOND-WORST CITY FOR NEWLYWEDS
Where should newlyweds set up their home after the wedding and honeymoon are behind them? According to a study from the destination wedding resource Destify, it should not be Yonkers. In the study of 311 cities, Yonkers placed 310th as a place for newlyweds to begin their lives together. The city was faulted for what was characterized as a $514,200 median home value that is above the national average, coupled with a relatively tight median household income of $62,399 that makes affordable homeownership a scarce commodity. Yonkers has 13.7% of its population identi�ied as recently married. Tricia Harte, outreach manager at Destify, said Yonkers’ zero score on the site’s affordability index meant, “the cost to support a family with one child was much more expensive than other cities across the U.S.”
IBM BREAKS RECORD FOR MOST CORPORATE PATENTS
IBM announced that its inventors received 9,262 U.S. patents during 2019, breaking the record for most patents ever awarded to a U.S. company during a single year. Last year was also the 27th consecutive year that IBM was the top company for receiving U.S. patents. The Armonk-headquartered company was awarded more than 1,800 patents related to arti�icial intelligence technolo�y and more than 2,500 patents in cloud computing technolo�y. The company also received patents for its quantum computing innovations and for its cybersecurity breakthroughs, including a patent in homomorphic encryption that enables users to operate on encrypted data without having to decrypt it �irst.
MOUNT VERNON, NEWBURGH, WHITE PLAINS TO RECEIVE CITIES RISE GRANTS
Mount Vernon, Newburgh and White Plains are among 10 municipalities named by New York Attorney General Letitia James as recipients of more than $8 million in grant awards allocated in the Cities for Responsible Investment and
Strategic Enforcement (Cities RISE) program. The program �inances efforts to address blighted, vacant and poorly maintained residential properties created in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The two-phase program provides municipalities with a two-year access to an online platform designed to integrate and including code enforcement Le analyze Jardin data Du Roi records, WCBJtax liens and �ire and police data. In thewsecond phase, 7.375” x 7.125” h the cities will work with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center 1-15-20 for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Tolemi, a social enterprise that created the BuildingBlocks platform, to upgrade code enforcement strategies and chart new hous-
ing-focused solutions. The cities can also apply for a grant of up to $1 million to develop new housing or code enforcement programs. All 10 cities selected for the program will receive between $546,000 and $1 million to implement their code enforcement programs with an emphasis on making code enforcement more effective, ef�icient and equitable.
lawsuit that involved Connecticut and New York along with four northeastern states and New York City that challenged the EPA’s 2018 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule “Close-Out” for not controlling smog pollution emissions from states upwind from the plaintiffs. On Oct. 1, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the coalition and found the EPA at fault for rejecting the need for upwind sources to cut their emissions of smog-forming pollution. The new lawsuit argued that the EPA ignored a previously imposed court-ordered deadline for Dec. 6, 2018, to comply with its statutory obligation for putting plans in place to stem these pollution emissions. The attorneys general added the EPA announced it has no plans to comply with this statutory obligation. —Phil Hall
CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK FILE SMOG LAWSUIT AGAINST EPA
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and his New York counterpart Letitia James are joining forces in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that accuses it of ignoring its responsibility under the Clean Air Act to control upwind sources of cross-state smog pollution. The complaint stems from a Jan. 31, 2019,
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