Concord: New East Side Company with Green Cleaning Technology

"City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said, "The City of Buffalo is proud to welcome Concord and we look forward to the ribbon-cutting for our city's newest GREEN business."

seriously??? he had to say 'ribbon-cutting' didn't he?

Erkel to the side.... This is still great news, especially for the East Side.

With the strong Canadian dollar, dirt-cheap real estate prices in Buffalo, and a country with 300 million people instead of 30 million people, I'm surprised there hasn't been a mad rush of Canadians buying up this type of property.

Welcome Toronto Business Community to Buffalo, NY.

The bigger picture is that Europe, Canada and the US excell in research and technology and productization but unfortunately our manufacturing and service sectors cannot compete with 25cent/hour minimum wages.

The bigger picture for the global warming and carbon and chemical etc industries is 2 fold. First, the only way they can stay in business is to innovate and that means new research, new technology, new products, new processes and new services IN WAYS THAT UNRELATED TO WHAT EXISTS TODAY. Hence putting the leverage on new knowledge because old knowledge is cheap and we have already exported old knowledge to low wage exporters. The Second issue, is the only way to bring jobs back to our country is for all products and services tobe redesigned since the prototypes and introductions always happen in the richest and most developed countries.

So, I see all these big movements as little more than big marketing gimmicks (though some with chemicals and pharmaceuticals have real merit). No, the big trend for our nation and declining dollar and declining living standards is back to the Eisenhower years. More self sufficiency on every level. Less imports on every level. More dense cities and more mass transit. More gardens. More savings. More spending on need. More efficiency. Less pollution. All things Buffalo has been moving toward for decades.

With the great lakes treaty banning the export of water and the limits of removal of fresh water...the next big binational movement is to how the Great Lakes can generate money and that points to only one primary issue: RESTORATION OF THE FISHERIES! Future efforts will be made to restore the Great Lakes to the days when fishing fleets pulled into every major city on the great lakes. Those are my predictions for green. There are scientific and monetary reasons underneath all that green marketing.

really great news! i'm all for phasing out perc. it is so hazardous that every neighborhood dry cleaner probably qualifies as a toxic waste site.

Now thats how the Empire Zone is supposed to work.

The Mayor and his economic development team aggressively lobbied these investors to set up shop in Buffalo for over a year, assisting with site selection and connecting the dots on development incentives. The role of the City cannot be understated.

The Toronto/Buffalo gulf is bridged with 80+ new green jobs. Bravo!

This is better than many things Mayor Brown and the econ dev agencies have done here.

If this co has success selling their compounds, conversion kits, and equipment all made here to customers outside of WNY, they'll draw money into the local economy.

That gives a real economic boost and better justifies govt subsidy than much of the so-called "economic development" govt spending such as loft conversions, coffee houses, retail stores, restaurants, etc. that just use govt subsidies to reallocate spending already done here while enriching the politically connected.

$275,000 from ESDC for 80 new jobs is $3437 per $36,000 job. That doesn't count Empire Zone tax breaks, but it still sounds like a bargain compared to a lot of subsidies usually given around here.

An entire year of begging and bribing and hand holding through a maze of head aches and red ribbons... I mean red tape to get a company to come to Buffalo with the help of Empire State Development, Mayor Brown's Economic Development Staff, Commissioner Brian Reilly, and NCCC SBDC. I agree, with the most sarcastic tone available, with chris_hawley GREAT JOB. lol

Is there anyway to make this easier, faster, cheaper, less political, etc.

Being a debbie downer aside, welcome and good luck Concord Textile Care Products.

THIS is the seed of economic development that this city so desperately needs!!! These guys are walking the walk while everyone else is talking the talk...CREATE JOBS!