Locations and property details for tax-free areas designated by colleges and universities under New York's START-UP NY program. Empire State Development (ESD) produces this annual report listing approved sponsors. The dataset was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the distribution of tax-free zones by County and City to map program coverage.
- Assess the scale of available space for businesses using Square Footage and Acres columns.
- Identify participating academic institutions and their designated buildings via the Sponsor and Building fields.
- Geocode program sites for spatial analysis using the Street Address, City, and County data.
Strengths
- Includes specific property metrics like Square Footage and Acres for each location.
- Provides direct identifiers for participating institutions via the Sponsor column.
- Maintained by the authoritative state agency Empire State Development (ESD).
Limitations
- Unknown total number of records or rows limits assessment of coverage.
- Sample data is unavailable to verify data consistency and completeness.
- Temporal coverage and update frequency beyond the last update date are unspecified.
Provenance
- Source
- Empire State Development (ESD) via data.ny.gov.
- Collection Method
- Annual report compilation for the START-UP NY Program.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated March 2026.
- Geography
- New York State, United States.