On Friday, December 13, NYCEDC and the NYC Dept. of Small Business Services announced the expansion of NYC Business Acceleration to serve supermarkets and grocery stores offering a full array of food products.
Since launching in 2010, NYC Business Acceleration has helped more than 1,600 food and beverage businesses, creating nearly 23,000 jobs, open faster by reducing the time and effort needed to meet City requirements like plan reviews and inspections. Offering NYC Business Acceleration services to supermarket and grocery store clients will help these businesses to navigate City approvals, shaving weeks and in some cases months off of their pre-opening period.
The announcement was made at the grand opening of the first supermarket utilizing the expanded NYC Business Acceleration programming, a Food Bazaar Supermarket at 42-02 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City.
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