The Orange County Industrial Development Agency announced on Jan. 16 that it has filed a lawsuit against the state-appointed monitor for the agency, Brian Sanvidge, and the New York state Office of the Inspector General in response to the monitor’s veto of tax breaks for an Amazon warehouse project.
The agency approved an $80 million tax break for a 3.2-million-square-foot eCommerce fulfillment center in the Town of Wawayanda on Oct. 23 last year. Politicians and community groups called for the tax break to be scrapped in response, with state Sen. James Skoufis collecting more than 1,000 residents’ signatures in opposition. Sanvidge vetoed the tax break on Nov. 25.
