Goya Foods is the premier provider of authentic Latino and Caribbean cuisine. BLS & Co. advised the company as it sought to address capacity constraints at its New Jersey headquarters and distribution facility.

BLS & Co. secured an award under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit program to support the project, which will include the creation of over 100 new jobs and the retention of over 300 existing jobs.

BLS & Co. was engaged by AbleTo Inc, a behavioral healthcare provider, to provide an incentives strategy for its planned new facility. The company was rapidly expanding, seeking to create new jobs in its technology and software development division with wages over $100,000 annually.

As part of the incentives package, AbleTo Inc., was approved for Excelsior Jobs Tax Credit incentive program for steadily creating new jobs in the state of New York.

BLS & Co. provided incentives advisory services for SKF USA Inc.’s new Global Technical Center – Americas (GTCA), an engineering research and development center supporting SKF’s North and South American manufacturing operations. Naperville, IL -- a suburb of Chicago – was chosen for the 130,000 square foot build-to-suit facility.

BLS & Co. crafted land use and community engagement strategies to assist Hercules with the disposition of 2,100 acres of brownfields in New Jersey. The engagement involved strategies to reposition and/or redevelop four sites on a portfolio basis, quickly enabling sale of the most market-ready property to generate the resources needed to pursue the redevelopment potential of the longer-lead sites.   

TradePoint Atlantic (TPA) – previously Sparrows Point Terminal – is a former 3,200 acre Bethlehem Steel plant site located in southeastern Baltimore County, Maryland.  TPA purchased the brownfield site in the fall of 2014 with plans to redevelop it into a major East Coast multi-modal distribution and manufacturing hub.

BLS & Co. was engaged to develop a comprehensive strategy to secure the public financing sources needed to mitigate the significant cost of repositioning a brownfields site of this scale and complexity.  Our services included:

• Benchmark analysis of the location’s incentives competitiveness versus similar competitive locations in seven other states;
• Management of a multi-firm team responsible for identifying and prioritizing available federal, state and local grant, incentives and financing programs to allow the developer to pursue environmental remediation and infrastructure improvements beyond what would otherwise be possible given market-based ROI targets;
• Development and execution of an overall strategy to design new incentives tools to improve the competitiveness of the site for potential tenants; and
• Development of a strategy for pursuit of public site development/remediation financing.

The competitive benchmarking analysis revealed an opportunity to improve the cost competitiveness of the site via the introduction of a targeted sales and use tax exemption for specified construction materials and warehousing equipment.  BLS & Co. served as “subject matter expert” to assist TPA in pursuit of the required legislation by documenting the competitive market-based rationale for the proposed exemption, providing data on similar programs in other locations, drafting proposed legislation and providing expert testimony during Senate and House hearings on the proposed legislation.  On May 19, 2016, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed the enabling legislation.

BLS & Co. advised New York Life on the relocation of approximately 1,000 employees from the company’s Manhattan headquarters location to a new facility in Westchester, New York.

BLS & Co. was successful in securing an economic development incentive package that included a PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes), sales tax exemptions on construction materials and FF&E purchases, a state capital grant and a discount of the utility bills.

BLS & Co. serves as location and incentives advisor to Roche, Swiss multinational healthcare company, and its subsidiary Genentech, the South San Francisco-based biotechnology industry leader. Our engagements with Roche date back to 2012 with three major projects announced as of 2026:

• North Carolina- During our most recent engagements supporting Genentech, BLS & Co. managed a nationwide search for a new drug product manufacturing facility. BLS managed a nationwide site evaluation and incentives strategy leading to a site in Holly Springs, North Carolina to be selected – the company’s first in the Eastern U.S. The facility will invest a total of $2 billion and create 520jobs.
• Oregon - In2018, BLS & Co. also supported Genentech’s selection of an office in the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon, as a second location for its Access Solutions Patient Service Center, employing approximately 300 full-time specialists during the peak insurance benefit open season.
• New York - In2012, Roche required assistance to fast-track a decision on the location of its new R&D center. Roche engaged BLS to manage site selection and incentives negotiations of the TCRC eventually led to the company selecting the East River Science Park on Manhattan’s east side. The new facility would invest $13M and relocate 200 positions from NJ. 

BLS & Co. was engaged to devise an incentives strategy for ACE Limited (now Chubb) in support of their consolidation and relocation of back office operations from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey.

As part of the package, ACE was approved for a New Jersey BEIP grant and an exemption from sales tax on construction materials and equipment purchases.

BLS & Co. serves as location and incentivesadvisor to Roche, Swiss multinational healthcare company, and its subsidiaryGenentech, the South San Francisco-based biotechnology industry leader. Ourengagements with Roche date back to 2012 with three major projects announced asof 2026:

• North Carolina- During our most recent engagements supporting Genentech, BLS & Co. managed a nationwide search for a new drug product manufacturing facility. BLS managed a nationwide site evaluation and incentives strategy leading to a site in Holly Springs, North Carolina to be selected – the company’s first in the Eastern U.S. The facility will invest a total of $2 billion and create 520 jobs.
• ‍Oregon - In 2018, BLS & Co. also supported Genentech’s selection of an office in the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon, as a second location for its Access Solutions Patient Service Center, employing approximately 300 full-time specialists during the peak insurance benefit open season.
• New York - In2012, Roche required assistance to fast-track a decision on the location of its new R&D center. Roche engaged BLS to manage site selection and incentives negotiations of the TCRC eventually led to the company selecting the East River Science Park on Manhattan’s east side. The new facility would invest $13M and relocate 200 positions from NJ.