Jobs focus of Building Congress forum.

From: Real Estate Weekly | Date: March 17, 1993 | Copyright information

Barry Light, the new president of the New York City School Construction Authority, told some 150 Building Congress members at a recent General Membership meeting that SCA had the ability and expected to issue school construction contracts at a rate of $1 billion a year. The school system, he noted, "still is short 50,000 seats."

Light also said that SCA would aim, within its statutory authority, to issue contracts to New York City-area firms, limiting to the extent possi...

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