Rockland employers and storefronts: openings, closures and the costs standing behind them.
State parks, boat launches and village sidewalks along the Palisades form a tourism corridor that feeds restaurants, outfitters and shopkeepers from Piermont to Stony Point.
Asking rents run from under $2,000 a month for a small Spring Valley office to well past $3,000 in New City, and the lease terms behind those numbers matter as much as the rent itself.
There is no single county business license in Rockland. Approvals come from your town or village, the state, and sometimes the county — here is how the pieces fit.
From registering with New York State to a village sign permit in Nyack or a health permit in Ramapo — the sequence of approvals a Rockland entrepreneur actually faces.
Each Rockland river town and village runs its downtown a little differently — here is how the main business corridors work, and who keeps them running.