On the recordNovember 21, 2013
This morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is in my home neighborhood of South Buffalo to announce a $225 million redevelopment of a former steel-making plant that will bring 850 new jobs to Buffalo. This project announcement will transform a 200-acre former Republic Steel site into a new clean energy and research campus that will breathe new life into a formerly contaminated industrial area that is situated along the Buffalo River and that has been economically dead for the past 30 years. This announcement, along with $75 million in Federal and private investments to clean up the Buffalo River and shoreline, is creating a dynamic new economy in Buffalo, an economy marked by new waterfront development and clean-energy manufacturing. Energy independence and hundreds of new jobs in the new economy are remaking Buffalo, New York; and this project should serve as a national model to grow the economy and for nation-building right here at home. ____________________
