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Minorities gain in B'klyn building boom; Group wins ground in diversifying borough construction projects; brownfield battle plan.

Publication: Crain's New York Business
Publication Date: 26-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Minorities gain in B'klyn building boom; Group wins ground in diversifying borough construction projects; brownfield battle plan.(Brooklyn Advisory and Oversight Committee helps minorities in getting contracts from contruction firms)(Allen AME Housing Corp. forms Jamaica Avenue Reclamation to clean up Jamaica Avenue brownfields)

Article Excerpt
For years, people have urged contractors working on big economic development projects to subcontract more jobs to minority- and women-owned business enterprises. But even in Brooklyn--a paradigm of urban diversity--the number of qualified firms was limited, and big builders remained focused on mechanical engineering, not social engineering.

Initial attempts to change the situation were ham-handed. "They used to put names in a hat to pick out groups who would get the jobs,'' says Bill Howell, owner of an eponymous construction management firm.

One particularly radical outfit simply showed up at construction sites and demanded...

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