Jim Fink

The Genesee County Economic Development Center is surging ahead with various projects related to its STAMP campus in the Town of Alabama.

The bottom line is the nearly $26 million Benderson is investing in its dual Amherst Development Park headquarters-anchored projects could have been made in Sarasota.

To John Persons, re-opening the Jefferson Avenue store was a symbol of the grocery chain’s commitment to Buffalo’s East Side. Not re-opening it or relocating the store was just not an option.

A hush came over the more than 300 people who attended the third anniversary ceremony in the parking lot of Buffalo's East Side supermarket when the names of the 10 victims of the May 14 Tops mass shooting were read. The ceremony was alternately joyous and solemn, as attendees came together three years after the racially motivated shooting.

Buffalo is on the verge of securing a law that would allow the city’s Housing Court to turn derelict properties to a receiver, who will then bring the buildings up to code, setting the stage for the properties to either be sold or brought back to life.

A quiet Monday in the Hamburg neighborhood of Lake View was broken just before 9 p.m. — when an explosion and fire destroyed a West Lane home, leaving one person dead and one other person to ECMC with severe injuries.

Frank Todaro said he is still working on plans for a historic, former Mason’s Temple in the Village of Lancaster that he acquired.

The record book will reflect the 25-member Canadian women’s team shut out their U.S. counterparts 2-0 while the U.S. men’s tug-of-war team blanked the Canadian team, also by a 2-0 score. But the real winner according to those participating was friendship, held against the backdrop of strained U.S.-Canada relations over President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Hochul allocated $10 million, which comes on top of more than $60 million she has already used to target small business on Buffalo’s East Side, especially along the Jefferson Avenue corridor.

Niagara Falls, Ontario Mayor Jim Diodati thinks continuing rifts on trade from the White House doesn’t just impact the U.S. – but his own Canadian city as well.