11-14-2012 - LIC Partnership to hold annual luncheon

Long Island City Partnership's annual luncheon and trade show will be held on November 14 at Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Over 130 exhibitors and 3,500 attendees are expected. The keynote speaker will be David Barger, CEO of JetBlue Airways. John Miksad, SVP of Con Edison will be given the LICP Green Business Award, and they have invited singer Tony Bennett to receive the William Modell Community Service Award. Luncheon tickets are $80 for LICP members and $90 for non-members. To buy lunch tickets or an exhibit table or half table contact Indra Smith at 718.786.5300 x 21 or [email protected]. More information is available at www.licpartnership.org. LICP Partnership is a not-for-profit local development corporation which has served the western Queens business community since 1979, and advocates for all its sectors. LIC, only five minutes east of midtown Manhattan, continues to see residential and commercial growth. The $80 million renovation of Queens Plaza is complete. The relocation of NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's headquarters to Queens Plaza brought 3,000 new workers to the area in 2011. They were joined in 2012 by over 1,000 staff of JetBlue Airways. This fall, multinational media firm Publicis will move its Manhattan office to Queens Plaza, bringing 450 workers, and CUNY School of Law is will open nearby. Over 4,800 residential units have recently been completed or under construction, involving roughly 35 buildings. Thousands more units are in the pipeline, including 5,000 in the Hunters Point South development alone, which will be the largest middle-income housing development in a generation in New York City. 19 hotels are now open or nearing completion in LIC.