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City of Syracuse awards $2 million in ARPA fund grants to city businesses
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh has announced 43 grants for city businesses and organizations funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Commercial

Canadian manufacturing company plans to add jobs at Binghamton plant
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — A new deal for a Canadian company with a manufacturing facility in Binghamton will lead to new jobs in the Southern Tier.

Le Moyne College opens Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Le Moyne College has formally opened the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity, which is part of the Madden School of

White House Infrastructure Coordinator Landrieu hears details about I-81 project in Syracuse visit
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Area officials with a stake in the upcoming Interstate 81 viaduct-replacement project shared details with Mitch Landrieu, infrastructure coordinator at the White

Caggiano returns to VIP Structures’ IT department
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — VIP Structures recently announced that Michelle Caggiano has returned to the company’s enterprise-wide IT department. She will help expand the company’s IT Support Group, and help “keep VIP at the leading edge of technology implementation,” the Syracuse–based design-build firm said in a news release. VIP Structures is a more than 45-year-old firm

Bouck Real Estate is now part of The Real Estate Agency
AUBURN, N.Y. — Following its acquisition, Bouck Real Estate of Auburn will continue to operate under the same name as a commercial branch of another Auburn firm, The Real Estate Agency. Matthew Chalanick, owner of The Real Estate Agency, didn’t disclose the sale price but confirmed he has purchased the firm, including its assets and

Rochester staffing firm starts operations in new Syracuse office
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A Rochester–based staffing and recruiting firm has opened a new office in the Pike Block building in downtown Syracuse. The new space represents the firm’s next step in its entry into the Syracuse market. The company had opened a temporary working space in Common Space at 201 E. Jefferson St. back in
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County hotels generated another increase in guests in August, but it was smaller then any other month so far this year. The hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county rose 6.4 percent to 74.9 percent this August from the year-prior month, according to STR, a

Federal, state laws provide incentives for Micron to build chip plant in Clay
CLAY, N.Y. — State and federal officials, along with the leadership at Micron Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), point to the federal CHIPS and Science Act and New York’s Green CHIPS program as legislation that provided the incentives for Micron to choose Central New York for a semiconductor manufacturing facility. Without the CHIPS and Science Act,

LISC invests $1 million in Salina 1st project
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The ongoing Salina 1st project at 1081 S. Salina St., just south of downtown Syracuse, will use a $1 million investment from
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