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Elected officials hold ribbon cutting for catering company in Mott Haven
BY BRONX TIMES
Leading catering and
events company, Great Performances,
the largest food
service company owned by a
woman in the Tri-State area,
launched a new Bronx headquarters
this week, assuring
181 new jobs for the borough.
On May 4, Congressman
Ritchie Torres, Borough President
Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblywoman
Amanda Septimo and
Great Performances Founder
and Chair Liz Neumark held
a ribbon cutting for the facility
located in Mott Haven at 2417
Third Avenue.
The company’s move into
the space occupying two-anda
half full floors of the former
factory building, which was
built out at a cost of $7.7 million,
comes more than a year
after Great Performances (GP)
vacated its much smaller Hudson
Square campus in July
2019. Since then, it has been operating
out of alternate office
space in the Bruckner Building
and a temporary kitchen
the company built in a warehouse
nearby on Park Ave.
“Setting up shop in this
new space opens an exciting
new chapter in our 40-year history,”
Neumark said. “It represents
a serious investment, not
only financial, but intellectual
and emotional as well, in our
future, that of The Bronx and
of the city’s hospitality sector
as a whole. This complex will
enable us to maximize the potential
of some of the new initiatives
we undertook during
the pandemic and to recuperate
from the effects of the crisis,
while providing mechanisms
to take our core catering
and events business to a new
level.”
The facility boasts a stateof
the art 19,000 sq. ft. kitchen,
three times larger than its
Manhattan predecessor.
There will also be a separate
pastry warehouse, purchasing
department design
studio, training space, support
offices and The Sylvia Center,
a nonprofit dedicated to teaching
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youth the connection between
food and health.
A $1 million Empire State
Development Grant was
awarded to GP by The New
York City Regional Economic
Development Council to cover
a portion of kitchen’s equipment
costs, in exchange for
181 new jobs in the Bronx.
“Supporting successful
and creative companies like
Great Performances will be
critical to building back the
New York City economy as we
recover from the COVID-19
crisis,” said Eric Gertler, Empire
State Development acting
commissioner, president and
CEO. “This new headquarters
in the Bronx will allow
Great Performances to grow,
provide needed jobs and contribute
to the South Bronx
community and beyond.”
Like so many companies,
GP pivoted in the face of the
pandemic-prompted shut
down last March. The temporary
kitchen was re-tooled
for packaged meal production
and GP started preparing
and delivering 40,000 meals
a week to the elderly. It also
partnered with The Sylvia
Center to raise funds to provide
meals for health care
workers, which resulted in
the production and delivery
of 120,000 meals to 22 hospitals
in New York City, Northern
New Jersey and Westchester
County.
“Great Performances’ new
headquarters is bringing renewal
and hope to New York’s
world-class hospitality industry
and back to the Bronx
after the toll COVID-19 has
taken on the city’s economy
and service industries,” Torres
said. “I am encouraged by
the newfound success hospitality
companies are experiencing
as we start to emerge
out of the pandemic, and I
look forward to welcoming
employers like Great Performances
to the South Bronx to
revitalize and diversify our
community’s economy.”
The ribbon cutting for Great Performances new building in Mott Haven.
Courtesy of Great Performances
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