Three of the members of the WCA Search Committee pictured (l-r): Aleida Frederico, Vice President, Commercial Lending, TD Bank; Jeffrey Menkes, President & CEO, The Burke Rehabilitation Hospital; William P. Harrington, Jr., Partner, Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP. The search has begun for a new President/CEO of the Westchester County Association, Westchester County’s leading economic development and business advocacy organization, with the formation of a 7-member Search Commi

Front row, from left: Judy Williams, Glendale branch manager; Anthony Simeone, executive vice president & chief lending officer, Ridgewood Savings Bank; Leonard Stekol, president, CEO and chairman of Ridgewood Savings Bank; Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-N.Y.); Captain Victoria Perry of the NYPD and 104th Precinct Community Council; Gary Milau, president-elect of the Glendale Kiwanis; Thomas Mazza, treasurer of the Edward R Miller VFW Post 7336. Back row: Carlos Sanchez, senior

L-R: Kelly Ryan, CEO, iFIBER Communications; Hon. Carol Carter, Mayor, Village of Seville, Ohio; Dave Corrado, CEO, Medina County Fiber Network; Brian Snider, CEO, Lit Communities; and James Cowan, Founder, Docity at the Medina Fiber kickoff April 2, 2019. (HEPR Photo) Officials in Medina County, Ohio have selected Lit Communities to oversee an aggressive plan to bring fiber to every home in the count.y. Lit will oversee the design, deployment, and financing of Medina's first

We were delighted to learn this week of a recent CoStar study pointing to an increase in property value when a commercial building has fiber connectivity. The study, that was mentioned at a recent Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) meeting in White Plains, New York, compared data from buildings that had fiber connectivity with those with out. The CoStar team reports a 7% increase in property value among commercial buildings with fiber connectivity. Fiber networks

I was asked last week to testify before the Energy and Technology Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly in support of Senate Bill 846 that clarifies Connecticut's long-standing Municipal Gain statute, adds language regarding municipal broadband deployments, and bolsters policies surrounding utility pole attachments. Sexy stuff! In Connecticut, where my family and I reside, our state has a unique statute allowing municipal government to use allotted space on utility po

You don’t need an economics degree to know that Iona College is a big-time contributor to the regional economy. A new study by the Albany-based Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities says that Iona pumped $284.4 million to the economy in 2017, a $26 million increase from the previous year. The study also said Iona was responsible for the creation of 1,930 (930 are directly employed by the College). Iona's New Rochelle campus has undergone recent improvements that

Bob Knight, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Harrison Edwards, Inc. announced today that the firm has signed on as a sponsor of Great Lakes Connect Broadband Development Conference. Great Lakes Connect will bring together industry and civic leaders from communities throughout the Midwest, a region where municipal gigabit-speed broadband deployment is catching on quickly. This year's inaugural Great Lakes Connect is produced by the same team as Mountain Co

After being out of work for over a year, Maribel Valencia-Barajas has a new job as a medical assistant/medical records specialist at Westchester Neurological Consultants in Yonkers, New York. Her position is all thanks to Jobs Waiting, a federally-funded regional job training partnership which trains long-term and short-term unemployed individuals for jobs in the region’s fastest growing sectors. Valencia-Barajas is the 300th individual to obtain employment through the progra

Today at Mountain Connect, the Colorado-based broadband industry conference, Bob Knight, executive VP and COO of Harrison Edwards moderated and participated in the panel "How to Get to a GO Decision for a Community Network." The session included economists, Open Access Network experts, demand aggregation/take rate experts, and venture capital professionals. Click here for a copy of Bob's presentation. Reach out to Bob directly with questions here. #Internet #EconomicDevelopme

The broadband industry will convene this week in sunny Vail, Colorado for Mountain Connect, rapidly emerging as a leading conference for economic development, municipal, and other leaders across North America. Over 700 are expected to attend, and the Harrison Edwards team will be there to meet with telecom providers and local and regional officials. Also, our Executive VP and COO Bob Knight will be presenting on the panel "Getting to the GO: How to Move Community Broadband Pr

The Harrison Edwards team is in Austin this week working sharing our knowledge of how to engage communities in the deployment and monetization of high-speed broadband networks. We'll be attending and presenting at the annual Broadband Communities Summit, the industry's leading event. "It's one of our nation's great challenges," says our executive VP and COO, Bob Knight, who will be leading two sessions at the four-day summit. "The next generation of infrastructure will create