December 2, 2011
Friday Good News
Welcome back to another edition of BNE's Good News Weekly!  BNE Project Win Business & Technology Resource Group (BTRG) will hosting their grand opening next Wednesday, December 7th at their new offices in the Electric Tower in downtown Buffalo and you're invited!  Click here for more details and to register.
BNE in the Big Apple

Our Business attraction efforts took us on the road to New York City this past week for the 87th Annual Greater New York Dental Meeting(GNYDM).  The GNYDM is the largest healthcare and dental event in the United States, attracting over 58,000 dental practitioners and industry professionals from around the globe.  I joined our business development staff at this show where we met with over a dozen companies and gained a significant amount of industry intelligence, particularly with respect to the growing diversity in product manufacturing.  We selected this meeting as an extension of our ongoing dental laboratory and dental product manufacturing campaign.


While in the city we took advantage of the opportunity to meet with a number of our contacts in the site selection industry.  We had some very good meetings that allowed us to re-enforce regional assets in targeted industry clusters like advanced professional services and logistics & distribution.  In particular we garnered some business intelligence that indicated our region could see some uptick in data center activity over the next 12 - 18 months.  Stay tuned!

Cleveland BioLabs Featured in New BNE Video

The most recent phase of this year's "A Million Reasons to Expand Your Business to Buffalo Niagara" marketing campaign was launched this week with the release of our new life sciences attraction video featuring Cleveland BioLabs and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Yakov Kogan.  In his interview, Dr. Kogan explains what factors led to the drug development company bringing their $6.2 million headquarters and research & development facility from Cleveland to their current home on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
 

The first in a series that will focus on three targeted industries, the video touches on many of the region's assets that are driving the growth of the life sciences industry in our region.  Those assets include our strategic cross-border location, logistics & distributions advantages, the availability of a large research population and strong university-industry partnerships.  Click here to access this great video, and thanks to BNE investor National Grid for their grant supporting this marketing initiative. 

Downtown Buffalo Development

A new map has been added to the maps section of our BNE website that we featured in a recent blog posting.  Developed in response to questions from consultants outside the region who wanted to know what kind of development has been taking place in downtown Buffalo, the new map identifies three project categories - "completed", "under construction" and "proposed".  Limited to only area of the city, the map identifies hundreds of millions in investment in downtown alone.


Our BNE staff understands the effectiveness of providing data geographically, and maps remain one of our most popular data delivery methods, especially considering the complex analysis our mapping software allows us to perform.  We encourage you to look through the maps section of our website and give us any feedback or suggestions you may have.


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Have a great weekend and we'll see everyone next week!

  Tom

Sincerely,

 

Thomas A. Kucharski

President & CEO

takucharski@buffaloniagara.org

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