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Global Vascular Institute will Take Heart in Buffalo

Feb-27-2009 — Buffalo’s global vascular institute is to rise on the downtown medical campus, near Kaleida’s Buffalo General Hospital. When it opens in 2011, it will be a facility that both provides care — five floors of Kaleida’s $150 million merger of its heart, vascular and neurosurgery operations and an expanded emergency room — and research — five floors of UB’s $118 million medical laboratories.

Jacobs’ Avalon Development adds to Main Street holdings

Feb-27-2009 — Buffalo developer Christopher L. Jacobs is adding onto his downtown Buffalo holdings with the purchase of a sixth building in the city’s Theater District. Jacobs’ Avalon Development has acquired a two-story building at 678 Main St. for $300,000 and plans a total overhaul. The vacant building from around 1900 features an ornate terra-cotta facade with three storefronts and large second- floor bay windows. It gained notoriety in recent years as the home to the Groove Club and OPM Lounge.

First Niagara growing at Larkin

Feb-27-2009 — First Niagara Financial Group is expanding its presence in the Larkin at Exchange Building downtown, adding space to its existing office there with plans to bring up to 100 new jobs there.

Greatbatch named top 10 plant

Feb-26-2009 — These days, while tales of U.S. manufacturing's woes are well documented, less so are its stories of excellence. The 2008 IndustryWeek Best Plants winners provide some of those stories, and they do so in myriad ways.

Most expensive condos in Buffalo area to hit the housing market

Feb-25-2009 — The most expensive group of condominiums ever built in the Buffalo area is about to hit the market. The 28 upscale residential units –with an average asking price of $777,000 — are atop Avant, the former Dulski Federal Building, in the 200 block of Delaware Avenue downtown. The most expensive of the new residences costs $1.73 million.

Canada wants trade exemption before Obama visit

Feb-13-2009 — TORONTO (AP) — Canada hopes U.S. officials will exempt America’s top trading partner from “Buy American” provisions in the economic stimulus bill before Barack Obama arrives in Canada this month for his first foreign trip as president.

Visa for Specialty Occupations

Feb-12-2009 — H-IB Visa for specialty occupations is utilized by U.S. organizations to temporarily employ a foreign worker in the U.S. on a non-immigrant basis.

Boosting bio-tech in Buffalo

Feb-09-2009 — More than a dozen companies are taking advantage of lab space, shared services and prime offices in the heart of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. They have done so by co-locating at the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. The facility has become a hotbed for collaboration and research, says Marnie LaVigne, director of business development at the center. The building currently houses about 300 people, with nearly a third working for private sec

High note for BPO at Grammys

Feb-09-2009 — For the first time in its 74-year history, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has won a prestigious Grammy award — or, in this case, two honors. The BPO won Grammys for the “Best Classical Performance” and “Best Classical Composition” for its “John Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man - Seven Poems of Bob Dylan” CD that was released last year. The orchestra was up for a third Grammy in the best engineered CD category for a collection of Respighi music, but lost to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and