Larissa Ortiz

“I'm Laura Sortiz. I'm testifying today as a Jackson Heights Queens resident, urban planner, or retail strategist”

“the city's retail sector paid $16 billion in wages, contributed $55 billion in taxable sales”

“Retail businesses have in general 19 days of cash reserves. Minority owned businesses even less 14 days”

“a former New York City Planning Commissioner. I served for seven years under de Blasio.”

“This is probably the single most important thing that we can do to help small businesses”