Business development center expands to help Sandy victims
Working on the theory that it’s important to help people right in their own backyard, the Brooklyn Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at City Tech has opened four new offices in neighborhoods that are still trying to recover the devastation brought by Superstorm Sandy last October.
“Eight months ago Sandy ravaged the Brooklyn community,” said Robert Piechota, regional director for the center. “Small Business owners were particularly hurt in that they sustained damage to business structures, lost inventory and lost business for weeks and months following the disaster,” he said.
“While the SBDC’s Brooklyn Headquarters remains at 25 Chapel St near DUMBO, the four new locations that are now open,” Piechota said.