Jay Biggins Email & Phone Number

Jay Biggins manages BLS & Co.’s national account corporate relationships, including advising clients on overall incentives and relocation strategies, managing major projects involving complex multi-jurisdictional competitive strategies (employing non-traditional incentives such as land assemblage and development approvals), and developing innovative new incentives structures to facilitate client objectives. He also serves as an advisor to public sector economic development organizations on incentives strategies.Prior to founding BLS & Co., Jay served as Senior Vice President and CFO of the real estate subsidiary of the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp., a diversified developer concentrating on corporate build-to-suit projects and large-scale urban projects undertaken in public-private partnerships. He also served as Executive Director of NYC's Office of Economic Development, and later was appointed Commissioner of Ports, International Trade & Commerce. In these capacities, he was responsible for incentivizing private investment in NYC, managing the financing of large-scale development projects (totaling more than $1 billion), and leading trade/investment missions targeting European and Asian markets.

Listed skills include Location Intelligence.

• 

  Executive Managing Director

  Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company

  Sep 2005 - Present

  Jay Biggins brings 20 years of experience in managing large-scale economic development initiatives for private and public clients. Responsible for BLS’s national account corporate relationships, including advising clients on overall incentives and relocation strategies; managing major projects involving complex multi-jurisdictional competitive strategies, and developing innovative new incentives structures to facilitate client objectives. He also serves as an advisor to public sector economic development organizations on incentives strategies, and has served on the editorial boards of CoreNet Corporate Real Estate Leader and Site Selection magazines.