Rarely, very rarely does an opportunity for new permanent jobs, new construction jobs and new business for vendors and a new source of property taxes come along in the region. And when such a rare opportunity arises, what happens? A NIMBY lawsuit pops up and Verizon says "No Thanks" and decides to head to Wyoming. To be fair, the owners of the land in Somerset in Niagara County where Verizon wanted to build its $4 billion project also couldn't put a cap on their greed and kept playing games about the sale price.
This is a huge loss. Not only because of the loss of this project's significant economic development impact on WNY but it also tells site selectors that doing a project such as this in WNY is too difficult. The area's track record for economic development
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- Development of the gas station at Delevan and Elmwoood. Not asking for much, just clean it up a bi
All right - its kind of silly that there has been no clarification by anyone that has a clue to this
Time to activate the spam filter, Newell, But hooray for Dolci. A much better presence on the street
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Richmond, Chapin, Bidwell, Lincoln, and the cemetery are full of Elms - the ugly Christine Buisman
Allow me to posit that part of their numerical success is their refusal to take voluntary surrender