The application window to enter the $3 million Grow-NY business competition is now open.  Empire State Development and the Cornell Center for Economic Development both announced on Tuesday that the competition is opening up for its second round of applications, ...

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Dozens of New York localities will share an additional $2.4 billion in funding from the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), a part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The funds are to be used for ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center has approved incentives for a number of projects that will improve solar capacity and add jobs in the region. The seven projects approved for assistance have vowed to make more than $45 million in ...

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A number of Rochester area counties will have access to a $4.5 million federal grant for economic and community development, the New York State Department of State announced this week. Eligible local counties include Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wayne counties, ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center this week will consider final resolutions for five community solar projects. Borrego Solar plans to invest roughly $22 million across the five projects, which would generate 22 MW of energy for residential and commercial ...

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Bio-performance company GreenLight Biosciences Inc. plans to construct a pilot plant at a building at Eastman Business Park (EBP). The project will create up to 30 jobs that will support the production of GreenLight’s ribonucleic acid-based solutions for the agriculture and ...

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Imagine Monroe, the county’s economic development engine, has approved incentives for four projects that will create or retain nearly 650 jobs. Unither Manufacturing LLC plans to expand over five years, which will include the renovation of 100,000 square feet of ...

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Six local projects have been approved for incentives by Imagine Monroe, expected to create and retain more than 175 jobs in Monroe County. ELogic Group LLC is planning to relocate its headquarters to Riverwood Tech Campus on East River Road ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center has approved incentives for the construction of two solar farms in the Town of Batavia. The developer, Pearl Solar LLC, will invest roughly $6 million to build two 2MW community solar farms, for a ...

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Get a grip on energy supply and transmission and you can put out a much better welcome mat for business development. That was the primary message speakers drove home at the State of the Region breakfast June 19 sponsored by ...

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Quality Vision International broke ground this week on a new manufacturing facility, the final phase of a five-year plan to expand the company’s headquarters on Hudson Avenue by 37,000 square feet. QVI is a Rochester-based manufacturer of precision optical measurement ...

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More than $11 million has been awarded to projects in the Finger Lakes region in the fifth round of the state’s Restore New York Communities Initiative. Ten regional municipalities have been awarded $11.2 million to support revitalization efforts that range ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) will consider nearly $250,000 in incentives for three projects at its upcoming meeting March 29. Genesee Lumber Co. plans to demolish an existing structure to make way for a more than 7,000-square-foot warehouse ...

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IEC Electronics Corp. will invest more than $20 million to construct a state-of-the-art facility in Newark, Wayne County. The electronic manufacturing solutions provider plans to create up to 362 new jobs and retain 463 positions at the 150,000-square-foot facility to ...

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Imagine Monroe, formerly the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, has approved three local economic development projects expected to create or retain more than 150 jobs in Monroe County. APM Holdings LLC is a real estate holding company for Addison ...

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