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CenterState CEO, Mohawk Valley partners submit application for Build Back Better Regional Challenge
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO and a group of regional partners have submitted a phase-two application for the Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC). BBBRC

Small Business Spotlight: Purple Banana owner starts business with intense focus
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Luke Nicolette — owner of The Purple Banana, a new business in Syracuse — approached the Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

Syracuse WorkForce Run plans for June 21 event
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — After a virtual event in 2020 and a small-scale, in-person event in 2021, the Syracuse WorkForce Run is back on the calendar

CenterState CEO announces Business of the Year finalists in five categories
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO on Wednesday announced finalists for its 2022 Business of the Year awards. CenterState CEO will recognize a single company or

Commerce Chenango Tourism offers tourism-related grant program
NORWICH, N.Y. — Commerce Chenango Tourism says new grant program is available for Chenango County tourism-related businesses, as well as event and festival organizers. The

California publisher moves headquarters to Binghamton
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Locked in by a lack of space and prohibitive real-estate prices in California, independent publisher PM Press looked east for opportunities to expand the business. The search led the company to Binghamton and the 17,000-square-foot former home of Marli Manufacturing at 21 Emma St. “We were very constrained in California,” PM Press

Syracuse is home to Density’s new manufacturing facility
SYRACUSE — Garrett Bastable, VP of operations at Density, Inc., provided a story to begin his remarks at the formal-opening of the company’s new manufacturing plant. A group of Syracuse University graduates in March 2014 were helping to operate a software consultancy in the Tech Garden. The group of would-be co-founders of Density, also liked

Taste of Syracuse returns in early June following two-year absence
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Taste of Syracuse will return to downtown Syracuse in and around Clinton Square in early June following a two-year absence due to

CNY regional jobless rates continued to fall in January versus a year ago
ALBANY, N.Y. — Unemployment rates in the Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions all declined in January compared to the year-ago month
Oneida County’s hotel occupancy rises more than 10 percent in January
UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County’s hotels continued to attract more guests in January compared to a year prior as the lodging industry keeps snapping back from the pandemic’s deleterious effects on business. The county’s hotel-occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) rose 10.5 percent to 39.7 percent in January from the year-ago
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