About Glynwood Glynwood’s mission is to ensure that the Hudson Valley is a region defined by food, where farming thrives, where farmers prosper, food entrepreneurs succeed, residents are nourished and visitors inspired. Located on a 225-acre property near Cold Spring, NY, in the Hudson Valley, Glynwood is focused on creating robust regional development and growth...

The Peninsula, a collaboration between Gilbane Development Company, Hudson Companies and MHANY Management Inc., was selected by the New York City Economic Development Corporation to transform the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the Bronx’s Hunts Point community into a new mixed-use residential, retail, and light manufacturing site. KK&P has been retained to develop a food manufacturing program for Building...

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ACCOUNTING MANAGER Koppert Cress USA is a unique, premier grower of living microgreens, cut microgreens, and specialties on the North Fork of Long Island, NY with origins in Dutch innovative agriculture and advanced greenhouse technology. Our reputation with the best chefs in the world and with specialty food distributors and wholesalers throughout the United States...

Every year, the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College releases its annual class of New York City’s 40 under 40, an impressive roster of people working to transform the food system. We were excited to see many names familiar to KK&P here, and are proud to highlight a few of them. Our specific congratulations...

KK&Ps anticipated project in Oneonta, NY, the Susquehanna Regional Craft Food & Beverage Hub, has just unveiled floor plans for its proposed space. The future regional food hub is intended as a flagship location for education and entrepreneurship, with the first floor housing a shared commercial kitchen and local food producers, the second floor committed to...

The Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF) has received a $2 million Financial Assistance (FA) award and a $3 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) award. These were awarded by The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund of the U.S. Treasury. The HFFI award was spearheaded, in part, by research completed by KK&P that provided...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo launched the New York State Grown & Certified program and announced a new $20 million food hub in the Bronx to increase access to farm-fresh produce. Karen Karp & Partners helped spearhead this initiative, working as facilitators of the Governor’s 2015 NYS-NYC Regional Food Hubs Task Force. Governor Cuomo’s commitment is...

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (BTCF) has launched  Fresh and Healthy Food for All, a five-year, $750,000 initiative to increase access to healthy food among low-income families and the elderly in Columbia County, New York. KK&P crafted the initial proposal which identified area opportunities for collaboration. It was developed after careful consultation with over 80 local community members...

Karen Karp & Partners was featured in a recent Talk Business article about the Brightwater Culinary School in Bentonville, Northwest Arkansas, which will be opening in early 2017.  The culinary school will be housed in Bentonville’s 8th Street Market.In 2014,  KK&P completed a Food Assessment study which helped to inform the vision and curriculum at the new...

On June 21, 2016 at 11am, Karen Karp & Partners will host the Future of Food Philanthropy Webinar, the first in a series of future-oriented food conversations conceived and produced by Karen Karp. This free webinar will share the exclusive findings from an earlier Future of Food Philanthropy Salon, attended by industry thought leaders who discussed critical issues facing...