DeBlasio Blasts Fresh Direct’s $100 M Freebie
New York Post
By David Seifman
Fresh Direct would never have gotten more than $100 million in government subsidies to stay in New York City if he ran City Hall, Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
The Democratic mayoral nominee said his administration would remove subsidies from large companies such as Fresh Direct and “give them to smaller companies.”
It would be difficult — if not impossible — for deBlasio to rewind the clock on contracts signed and sealed by the Bloomberg Administration.
But de Blasio could try to undo deals still in the pipeline after 2014 if he becomes mayor. Fresh Direct is receiving $89 million from the city and $38 million in other government funding to build a 500,000-square-foot warehouse in the South Bronx that is scheduled to open in 2016.
The company, which is currently located in Queens, had been considering moving to New Jersey.
