I heard a rumor today, and it may just be that. But I did hear that people in the company are being let go if they decide not to transfer with the company out of the county.
The vultures are circling for that lucrative government contract for the managment of our national universal healthcare......the key word--universal,,,,,peoples bodies are not universal like the plastic barbie and ken dolls from a machine....if anyone remotely thinks that the government will look at us as individuals given all our quirks and moles and DNA, backgrounds etc....one must be living in a cave or under a rock......yes, we all put our pants on the same way....but the stuff on the inside is still a vast unknown entity and certainly not something that can be bottled over and over and over and over...........here's an easy fix(maybe) clone the human right out of 'grassroots' existence......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
If this is true, then I guess it's just another in the line of successes / failures for Metroplex, as the Metroplex did entice them to build downtown, giving a loan to build the parking garage.
I went to MVP's website, looking at a previous press release from the company and it has a contact of Gary Hughes. Is this the County Legislator? If so and if MVP leaves, does he go with it? Or does he have something lined up? How many MVP employees CAN find something fast enough?
Legislator Hughes works for MVP. MVP gets Metroplex funding. Legislator Karen Johnson works for Proctor's. Proctor's received funding from Metroplex AND grants from the county (taxpayers).
Legislator Hughes works for MVP. MVP gets Metroplex funding. Legislator Karen Johnson works for Proctor's. Proctor's received funding from Metroplex AND grants from the county (taxpayers).
But they explained the funding for Proctors ($750,000 this year) doesn't come from the residents of Schenectady County. It comes from a bed tax from the hotels and motels...all around the county. And it's other money that these people could be spending at other businesses, instead of giving as a handout to Proctors.
I would go into more of a study of Proctors, but I'm afraid of what it would make me...a Proctologist.
SCHENECTADY MVP nears deal for more office space BY JAMES SCHLETT Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter James Schlett at 395-3040 or jschlett@dailygazette.net.
MVP Health Care has already maxed out the 175,000-squarefoot headquarters it built atop a hill on State Street and it is close to gaining additional office space in downtown. Only six years after consolidating 850 workers into a $35 million downtown building, the health insurer is on the verge of completing a deal for up to 50,000 more square feet. MVP spokesman Gary Hughes confirmed that the deal is “substantially complete,” but he would not specify where the office space is located because “it isn’t finished.” MVP currently has 950 full-time employees working at its headquarters, though it is not expecting to immediately add to its work force. The Schenectady insurer’s employment surged after it merged with Preferred Care, which has 600 employees in Rochester. MVP, which operates in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, employs 1,600 companywide. “We’re not intending to add more people. This is just to accommodate the work force we have,” said Hughes. Hughes said MVP has spent the past year searching for suitable additional office space. The search marks the latest surprise MVP has encountered at its headquarters, which it initially did not intend to fully occupy. Over the last six years, MVP’s membership has risen 46 percent from 480,000 to 700,000. Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority Chairman Ray Gillen declined to comment on MVP’s office space hunt, saying he does not comment on deals until they are signed. Hughes declined to specify what the new office space will be used for. He said the insurer will be “doing what we’re doing today in the appropriate amount of space, which we don’t have now.”
Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority Chairman Ray Gillen declined to comment on MVP’s office space hunt, saying he does not comment on deals until they are signed. Hughes declined to specify what the new office space will be used for. He said the insurer will be “doing what we’re doing today in the appropriate amount of space, which we don’t have now.”
In other words, the Chairman of the Metroplex and a member of the majority on the County Legislature have everything worked out with a handshake to probably give MVP more of our tax money, either with a grant or another interest free loan, but they can't say anything about it until it's too late for anybody to do anything about it.
MVP plans expansion September 10, 2008 4:11 pm – 4:11 pm MVP Health Care is finalizing a deal that would expand its presence in downtown Schenectady, giving the growing company about 50,000 square feet of additional office space.
The new offices will be in an existing building near the health insurer’s seven-story headquarters at 625 State St., said Gary Hughes, company spokesman.
Hughes would not identify the exact location, but said the agreement with the property owner is “substantially complete” and would be announced “very soon.”
MVP has been searching for about a year for additional room to accommodate consultants who come to Schenectady to help the company improve its operations.
There is also a need for extra space to meet with staff from its Rochester-based affiliate, Preferred Care. The two companies merged in January 2006.
He stressed that total staffing won’t increase as a result of the new office space.
MVP has nearly 950 full-time employees in Schenectady, about 600 in Rochester, and 50 or so at regional offices upstate, in Vermont and New Hampshire that serve 700,000 subscribers.
MVP opened its $35 million, 175,000-square-foot headquarters in January 2002 on what was an empty stretch of hillside land at the corner of State Street and Nott Terrace. It was the first of several large-scale investments that have helped change the face of downtown.
Today, there are very few buildings in the heart of the city with roughly 50,000-square-feet of vacant space. One is Center City, a combination indoor sports field/office/retail building at State and Jay streets that was purchased earlier this year by the Galesi Group of Rotterdam.
Another possibility is space further from downtown on Erie Boulevard that was formerly occupied by Siemens PTI. Earlier this year Siemens moved its 67 employees to the upper two floors above the Movieland Cinema on State Street.The Galesi Group told the few retail tenants on the Jay Street side Center City to move out by the end of this year so $12 million worth of renovations can begin.
The Galesi Group has kept its plans for the multi-purpose building under wraps, but it is known the company has been pursuing Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, the Capital District YMCA and other potential tenants.
David Buicko, chief operating officer at the Galesi Group, didn’t return a call for comment about MVP.
Ray Gillen, chairman of the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority, would not comment on the company’s plans.
“We do not comment on projects until we have a signed agreement,” Gillen said.
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