NEW WEBSITE & BRANDING COMING SOON!

NEW WEBSITE & BRANDING COMING SOON!

Whether you are a long established business in downtown Jamaica or a new business in the area or exploring the exciting possibility of moving to downtown Jamaica, we can help you!

Do Business in Downtown Jamaica

We work with the City of New York, particularly the Department of Small Business Services to ensure businesses get the resources they need to thrive in downtown Jamaica.

For Existing Businesses
If you are a business located within our BID boundaries, we offer the following services:

  • We promote our downtown retail community as a whole, AND our businesses within. Have a special event or promotion? Share it with us, and we’ll send it to our thousands of e-newsletter and social media subscribers. Over the course of a year, we coordinate district-wide advertising campaigns, special events and neighborhood promotions designed to attract visitors to downtown Jamaica, and by extension, the stores within. Local merchants are invited to “plug into” these many marketing campaigns at no cost to them.

  • Have you received a confusing business violation by the City’s Dept. Of Consumer Affairs, Sanitation or similar? Call us so that we can help you identify the reason and resolve the situation. We’re also here to advocate on your behalf if loitering, illegal dumping, or other quality of life issues are affecting your business. If you would like to file a complaint yourself to the Business Integrity Commission, you can do so here.

  • Periodically we engage specialists to provide free training to our local business community. Trainings are created based on observed need and incoming business requests.

  • We keep abreast of new incentives, business classes and citywide regulations and initiatives, sharing them with our local business community as we learn of them.

  • Our semi-annual happy hours allow businesses the opportunity to mingle, develop alliances, and meet other key players in our commercial community.

For New Businesses
If you are a new business or are looking to locate to downtown Jamaica, here is some useful information:

  • Downtown Jamaica offers a rare retail opportunity to capture the market potential of one of NYC’s most vibrant and trafficked outer borough shopping corridors. Consider the following:

    • Serves as one of the City’s largest transit hubs, with approximately 563,000 daily commuters passing through our district (combination of average weekday subway ridership at Jamaica’s stations, AirTrain daily ridership, LIRR ridership, and MTA/NYC Transit Bus ridership).

    • Is a mere block from the state University of New York’s York College campus, which enrolls more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and the elite Queens High School for the Sciences, located on the same campus.

    • Is seeing unprecedented development with 4,423 residential units, 27 mixed use projects in the pipeline (1275 units in 12 residential projects completed since 2017) and 2,422 hotel keys in 14 hotels in the pipeline (344 hotel keys in 5 hotels completed since 2017).

    • Enjoys a very stable daytime employee base of federal county government employees (Queens County Supreme and Family Courts, US FDA Field Office, Queens Social Security Card Center).

    • Is the nearest “downtown” for residents of some of southeast Queens most stable and established neighborhoods: Laurelton, St. Albans, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens, Queens Village, Jamaica Estates, South Jamaica and Rosedale.

    • Is home to three exceptional cultural arts centers (Jamaica Center for Performing Arts, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and King Manor Museum), drawing an influx of patrons looking to extend their visit by dining and shopping.

    • Offers a built-in business support network of multiple organizations and professionals committed to the vibrancy of a downtown Jamaica retail corridor; these staunch supporters include, but aren’t limited to: our own Downtown Jamaica Partnership (BID), the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, the Jamaica NOW Leadership Council, Community Board 12, Queens Borough President, and our local City Council representatives.

  • National and Regional Retailers Include Burlington, H&M, Target, Primark, Five Below, Old Navy, Chipotle, Shake Shack, Walgreens, Marshalls, Carters and many many many more.

  • If you are a new business in downtown Jamaica please find a “Welcome Wagon” from our BID to you that provides information about our BID, business services that we can provide you, helpful business resources, an FAQ and contact information for local representatives. You can view the English version here and the Spanish version here.

  • Thank you for your interest in doing business in downtown Jamaica!

    We are currently not hosting any vacancies on our site or able to provide any real estate information, but there are a number of broker agencies in the area that may be able to provide more information regarding your inquiries!

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