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New York City Will Rebound

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had an upbeat message when he spoke at Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater New York’s (BOMA) Energy Action Day.

“New York is the place where people want to be; it’s the capital of more industries than any other city. We’ve been written off many times. The post 9/11 zeitgeist was that no one would move downtown, but we have more companies today than in 2000 and twice as many people living downtown,” he said.

The Mayor also told the crowd that a greener city had a brighter future. He lauded building owners for the “good work you’ve performed over the past 15 years by continually lowering the energy costs of your buildings. The way you manage costs may be painful, but long-term, it is good for the economy and good for the City.”

Bloomberg spoke about he would make regulations easier to understand and would provide a number of incentives to help the city save energy.

“In the end it is the people in this room who get the people in the City to save energy, which makes us more competitive–you are going to be the stars,” he said.

This was the 15th annual Energy Action Day. The conference itself was also powered using renewable energy.