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Solar System Gets its Place in the Sun

Apr-06-2011 — Riverview Solar Technology Park will put DuPont's solar technology to the test, to see how the company's product performs in a rigorous climate like the Northeast's.

Honeywell Sample Lithium Plant Finished

Mar-31-2011 — Honeywell International has finished building a sample plant at its Buffalo research and development center, where the company will make test amounts of a vital component of lithium-ion batteries.

Group Promoting Innovation Expands

Mar-28-2011 — A group of more than 15 organizations has rebranded and expanded its efforts to link entrepreneurs and investors to bolster a high-tech economy across the region

Buffalo Area Gains 2,100 jobs

Mar-25-2011 — The Buffalo area added 2,100 jobs during the past year

ECIDA Approves Incentives

Mar-25-2011 — Erie County Industrial Development Agency Approves Incentives Totaling More than $4.5 Million in incentives to Support Over $34 million in Business Investments

Medical Campus Growth Has Only Begun

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Buffalo Area Continues Slow Job Recovery

Mar-25-2011 — The Buffalo Niagara region added jobs for the sixth straight month during

City of Buffalo Wins CNU22

Mar-18-2011 — Not many cities can boast of being home to buildings from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and H.H. Richardson all situated within their borders. Nor do many cities hold an extensively incorporated Frederick Law Olmstead-designed park system. Buffalo can claim both. And come 2014, The Queen City can also lay claim as host to the 22nd annual Congress for the New Urbanism.

Collins Touts Achievements in State of County Speech

Mar-18-2011 — Chris Collins strummed conservative refrains Wednesday during an annual speech to herald his work over the past year and drive home his priorities as an Erie County executive who happens to be vaulting into campaign mode.

State Program Helps Businesses

Mar-16-2011 — Small and midsized businesses in Western New York and surrounding areas can get up to $25,000 in matching funds to create and retain jobs from a state-funded economic stimulus program administered locally by that University at Buffalo.

Sabres' Owner Arrives with Championship Goal

Mar-15-2011 — For three months, Terry Pegula was merely the mysterious guy attempting to purchase the Buffalo Sabres. Confidentiality agreements prohibited him from talking, so he was forced to remain in the background. With the sale finally complete Tuesday, he wanted everyone in Sabreland to know all about him

Buffalo Sandwich Makes National List

Mar-15-2011 — A Buffalo-born sandwich is making national headlines. Jim's Steakout has made a list of "America's Best New Sandwiches, Part II" for its creation called "The Stinger."

Canadian Exports Finished 2010 with 10.8 Percent Surge to U.S.

Mar-15-2011 — The improving U.S. economy is positively affecting one of America’s key trading partners — Canada. Canadian exporters finished 2010 with their best business month in nearly 30 years. December 2010 also marked exporters’ greatest trade surplus with the United States since the recession began.

Nonprofit NxtArrow Eyes New Businesses

Mar-15-2011 — A new business development company known as nxtArrow is looking for a few good start-ups and hopes to find them in Buffalo. The nonprofit recently signed a lease in downtown Buffalo’s Electric Tower building. Using its own network, nxtArrow wants to work with local entrepreneurs that have sufficient start-up funds, or, emerging companies that, while adequately funded, have an interest in locating to Buffalo. The company can provide one year of free rent and other business services in its Elec

M&T Survey Sizes up Economy

Mar-15-2011 — A majority of American consumers are reporting overall better financial health now that the worst of the recession has passed, but those between age 25 and 49 continue to struggle with debt, according to a survey recently conducted for M&T Bank.

NF Outlet Mall Adds Barneys

Mar-15-2011 — Retailing giant Barneys has signed a lease to open an outlet location in Niagara Falls. The move is Barneys first location in New York state, outside the metropolitan New York City area. Barneys has leased 5,000-square-feet in the Fashion Avenue section of Fashion Outlets of New York, joining such upscale tenants as Hugo Boss, Polo/Ralph Lauren, Coach and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Finger Lakes Medical Equipment CEO to Head ESDC

Mar-10-2011 — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday nominated the CEO of a privately owned medical equipment maker based in the Finger Lakes region to become head of the state’s lead economic development agency.

CTG Plans on Hiring 100 More Employees

Mar-10-2011 — Computer Task Group is looking to expand its local work force by almost a third — 100 jobs in all — because of rapid growth in the work that the Buffalo-based information technology company does in the health care industry.

Region Continues to Add More Jobs

Mar-10-2011 — The Buffalo Niagara region added jobs for the fifth straight month during January -- a sign that the local labor market is slowly beginning to rebound, the state Labor Department reported Wednesday.

UB professor to enter Inventors Hall of Fame

Mar-09-2011 — The University at Buffalo professor, whose pioneering work with battery technology has earned her more patents than any other woman in the United States, will be one of the inductees in the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2011.

Spring start on Canisius' science building

Mar-09-2011 — A $16 million financing deal, coupled with a $2 million grant from The John R. Oishei Foundation, will support the first phase of Canisius College’s upcoming $68 million Science Hall building project.

Give Kids a Smile

Mar-09-2011 — About 500 public schoolchildren from across Western New York received free dental treatment as part of UB's 10th annual "Give Kids a Smile" day.

Tax credits fuel region's biotech expansion

Mar-09-2011 — Cleveland BioLabs Inc. received more than $30 million in federal grants and contracts in recent years to support research into oncology therapies and anti-radiation drugs.

Life sciences decoded

Mar-09-2011 — Marnie Lavigne can’t work medical wonders, but she can get wonderful medical work into the world

Tops Seeks to Grow by Going Smaller

Mar-04-2011 — Tops Markets is starting to think small. The Amherst-based supermarket chain on Monday took the wraps off the first new store it has opened in the Buffalo Niagara region in eight years.

Batavia Selected one of Nations Fastest Growing Micros

Mar-04-2011 — For the seventh year running, Genesee County has been named one of the nation's top ten Micropolitans by Site Selection Magazine's Governor's Cup edition. 

State Senate OKs Bill Supporting UB 2020

Mar-04-2011 — Legislation giving the University at Buffalo expanded financial autonomy and the ability to raise tuition annually was overwhelmingly approved Wednesday by the State Senate.

Real Estate Market Can’t be Looking Back

Mar-02-2011 — The commercial real estate market is starting to come back — slowly but surely — but it’s not likely to reach the unrealistic peaks of 2007 ever again, a national property expert told a crowd of Buffalo-area property-and economic- development officials Tuesday.

IMMCO moves lab division to downtown medical corridor

Mar-01-2011 — An Amherst-based diagnostic products and services company that bought a laboratory division from Upstate New York Transplant Services has now spent $1 million to relocate that business to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Improving Diversity in the Academic Sciences is Goal of NIH Grant

Mar-01-2011 — The University at Buffalo, in partnership with the University of Rochester and Upstate Medical University, has been awarded a $2 million grant to establish a mentoring program to promote career success among diverse and differently abled junior faculty members in the academic sciences.

One-fifth of children with MS fail 
to respond to first-line treatment

Mar-01-2011 — Researchers from the National Network of Pediatric MS Centers of Excellence, in the first retrospective study of the response of children with multiple sclerosis to standard, or first-line, therapies, found that one-fifth of patients involved in the review required “second-line” treatments.

ECMC's hyperbaric unit on line

Mar-01-2011 — The Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, located in a 3,500-square-foot space on the ground floor, is designed to speed healing for trauma, surgical, diabetes and other slow-healing wounds. The facility, staffed by six surgeons and three podiatrists, includes two hyperbaric chambers.