(Chateaugay Correctional Facility in Franklin County is among four slated for closure. Photo: Google Maps) How abandoned prisons across the state may take advantage of “tax free zones”… the number of NY farm breweries continues to grow… and do NY […]
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Photo: Heldeberg hops grow outside of a barn in Altamont, NY. Photo by Paul Buckowski, Times Union Since Governor Cuomo passed legislation last summer supporting New York’s craft breweries and requiring the use of locally grown farm products, hops and […]
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Canadice, a jewel of the Finger Lakes, is critical to the highly bio-diverse Bristol Hills region of Western New York (Photo credit: fingerlakestravelbuzz.com) Empire State Future’s Evan Lowenstein recently visited Jim Howe, Executive Director of the Central and Western New […]
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New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, agreed to hear an appeal filed by a landowner and a natural gas extraction company that challenges lower court’s upholding of municipal bans on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the […]
continue readingThe Empire State Development Corporation has approved $2.025 million in grants and loans to support development of an industrial “mega site” in rural Genesee County. This funding will help the Science Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Project (STAMP) to purchase the […]
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A Presidential Task Force has issued over five dozen recommendations for land use, development, and community design to protect and prepare communities for rising sea levels and more Sandy-like storms predicted in an era of climate change. Read about the […]
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In the far southwest corner of New York State, Jamestown (pop. 31,000) is striving to become the capital of comedy. Inspired by the hometown heroine Lucille Ball’s legacy of laughs, Jamestown’s leaders are seeking to make the city a magnet […]
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The controversial Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Project (STAMP)–1,380 acres of farmland, forest, and field rolled out by the Genesee County Industrial Development Agency and the Town of Alabama for the development of a speculative industrial ‘megasite’–took a step forward […]
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The former Post Office, the ECC City Campus is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Photo Courtesy: Art Voice Erie Community College chooses suburban site for new science and technology workforce training center instead of locating near the […]
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Photo courtesy: Twitter @agSchneiderman (June 26, 2013) Today in Syracuse New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announces that there will be $20 million made available for New York State land banks . The funds are part of the National […]
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