Savarino Construction’s rehab of 26 Mississippi a 18,000 square foot building built in 1910 (image) is now filled with tenants. The building located in the Cobblestone District is now occupied by Savarino Construction who moved their corporate headquarters from the suburbs to Buffalo; additional tenants include Buffalo Rising and Clark Patterson Associates, a Rochester based architectural firm that will have seven employees working out of their new Buffalo office.
Since 2004, the University of Buffalo has granted 43 licenses and options to companies on patents obtained through research conducted at UB. Recently the UB photonics research center, which has spun off a handful of start-up companies hosted several business and research individuals from China as part of the effort to make connections for international business opportunities.
Taylor Devices based in North Tonawanda, one of the largest manufacturing companies in Western New York has landed two international contracts. Taylor manufactures shock-absorption devices for use in vehicles, machinery and structures. One contract for $1.3 million is to assist in protecting a hotel in Pakistan from earthquake damage. The other contract is for $1.6 million to protect the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge located in China from being damaged in an earthquake or a typhoon. For a company with close to $15 million in sales the two contracts are a big boost.
Buffalo ReUse a local community organization has received a grant in the amount of $187,000 from Empire State Development to further their efforts of establishing an alternative to the typical demolition of vacant and abandoned homes. Buffalo ReUse utilizes a process called deconstruction, where a home is disassembled in the opposite order that it was built. The deconstruction process will create jobs and allow reusable building materials to be salvaged. The idea is an interesting alternative to simply demolishing a building and carting the material away to a landfill. For more information go to their web site www.buffaloreuse.org.
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