Green burgh is reaching out to draw businesse.

The city of Greenburgh has announced a new program to assist in attracting new businesses to the town and helping commercial landlords, real estate agents, and the town’s residents. The initiative is underpinned by a new website located at the address greenburghedo.com which offers a central site to search for available websites for businesses, economic development resources, and job opportunities for private businesses and the town.

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner explains that the new website includes properties for sale that are commercial properties that are vacant in Greenburgh’s most important commercial districts, including Central Avenue, Route 119, Saw Mill River Road, and East Hartsdale Avenue. It also includes a variety of information to assist businesses.

The site provides details about Greenburgh’s support to businesses assistance Greenburgh provides local companies, including county business programs incentives. New York state incentive programs, and details on the tax credit for employment. The site provides information on workforce development and the possibility of submitting ideas for economic development in the Greenburgh Planning Department. Greenburgh Planning Department.

“We hired an economic development consultant, Grella Partnership Strategies based in Atlanta, and this was one of the recommendations that they made,” Feiner stated to The Business Journal. “I believe this will prove be extremely useful. Realtors, brokers and landlords are able to identify vacant properties. It will be simple for anyone seeking to move to the area to look over homes in a short time and look at what’s available. There’s information on jobs. There’s information about incentives that the state and county offer small-scale businesses, and I consider this to be an extremely positive.”

Feiner said the town must keep track of the progress or failure in attracting new businesses and filling up vacant retail space.

“Prospects can browse the website and see where the vacancies are and take a look at the photos of the buildings and narrow down their searches,” Feiner stated. “This makes it easy for a business that is possibly looking for space to say, ‘Oh, this is really great, why don’t I go here.’ If Greenburgh is doing this and other communities are not doing this it gives us a competitive advantage.”

Feiner stated that the town would reach out to the landlords, commercial brokers, and real estate agents to regularly provide up-to-date information and improve the site as a useful information source.

“We already spent about $30,000 on this, developing the website, and I guess there will be some costs, but at the same time if you fill-up the vacancies we could make it up and I think it’s important for the town to have as few vacancies as possible,” Feiner stated. He pointed out that commercial property that’s completely rented generates greater tax revenues and is less likely to become the focus of a lawsuit trying to lower property taxes.

“Vacancies are being filled now and we’re meeting with people who have expressed interest in coming to town,” Feiner stated. “Expressing interest doesn’t necessarily mean anyone will sign an agreement however I think that there’s a growing interest, and when businesses believe that the town really is willing to do everything to support them, The word will then spread. If we receive positive feedback from people who have heard about us it will be beneficial and aid in attracting more companies.”

Feiner stated that he is confident that Greenburgh can draw new businesses. He mentioned the March 14 opening of a UPS Store at 656 Central Park Ave. He also said that he’d recently talked to a company that was interested in a location in the city’s Four Corners intersection where Hartsdale Avenue runs alongside Central Park Avenue.

“There’s room for optimism but it’s really going to take a lot of work from the town where everybody has to partner in this and do this together,” Feiner stated.