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Binghamton to showcase itself to startups with ‘Startup Weekend’
BINGHAMTON — Attention, entrepreneurs with a great business idea: the city of Binghamton says it has just the place for you to come and pitch
HSLD&G law firm diversifies into private-practice work
JOHNSON CITY — For more than three decades, the law firm of Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, DeWind & Gregory (HSLD&G) has provided legal services to school
Rochester–area e-recycler, Sunnking, expands into Binghamton market
BINGHAMTON — Brockport–based electronics recycler Sunnking, Inc. has expanded into the Binghamton region. Earlier this year, Sunnking hired Ken Blaison, who founded and managed TechnoloCycle, Inc., a Binghamton electronics recycler, from 2008 until joining Sunnking. Blaison’s experience in both the industry and in the Southern Tier region made him a perfect fit for Sunnking’s plans
Legislation would provide grants for waterfront brownfield redevelopment
Proposed federal legislation would award grants of up to $500,000 to local governments and nonprofit organizations redeveloping abandoned waterfront properties. “I don’t think [the legislation] has any chance [of passing] before the election, but after the election there is an opportunity because this kind of idea isn’t a Democratic or Republican idea,” U.S. Sen. Kirsten
Ithaca College to host energy management conference
ITHACA — Ithaca College will host its annual Educational Energy Day (EdEnergy) conference Oct. 1 at its Campus Center. The confab, held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., spotlights energy management best practices, strategies, products, and technologies. The agenda includes speakers from Staples, Honeywell, Corning Natural Gas, Rochester Institute of Technology, GEM Energy Services, Building
New York starts market-acceleration program focused on energy efficiency
New York has launched a $30 million program that aims to bring energy-efficiency technologies to market quickly. The state calls the initiative the Energy Efficiency Market Acceleration Program. It will seek to accelerate energy-efficiency technologies’ development, attract technology businesses to New York, create market channels for companies, build business-development opportunities, and train professionals like engineers,
Construction kicks off on $15M Upstate Cord Blood Bank
ONONDAGA — The State University of New York Upstate Medical University is preparing to deal in blood — umbilical-cord blood. Upstate broke ground Sept. 17 on a $15 million construction project that will build a public umbilical-cord blood bank at its Community Campus in the town of Onondaga. The facility will be known as the
ROME — A new hotel is coming to Griffiss Business and Technology Park. Rome Hospitality Group, LLC will purchase a 4.25-acre parcel on the corner
Empower begins work on new headquarters in Salina
SALINA — Empower Federal Credit Union began work last month on a new headquarters that will bring together staff members now spread across three offices. The new headquarters, which will be located the former B.G. Sulzle plant in Salina, will house departments like information technology, the credit union’s call center, and loan operations, says Rich Nave,
Conditions continue crumbling for New York manufacturers
New York’s manufacturers couldn’t put together much positive news about September, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The New York Fed’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey released Sept. 17 showed business conditions deteriorating, as its general business conditions index languished below zero for a second consecutive month. A
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