WBFO Business & Economy
The Business and Economy News Desk is funded by The M&T Charitable Foundation.
Our economy has seen transformative improvements in recent years. Yet even with substantial investments that are being made at Canalside, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and in other areas, some neighborhoods grapple with blight and poverty. WBFO provides comprehensive coverage of a range of issues that directly impact our listeners.
Our economy has seen transformative improvements in recent years. Yet even with substantial investments that are being made at Canalside, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and in other areas, some neighborhoods grapple with blight and poverty. WBFO provides comprehensive coverage of a range of issues that directly impact our listeners.
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New York State has begun the application process for licenses to run retail cannabis stores, nearly a year and a half after the drug became legal for adult recreational purposes.
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Olcott has had a couple of weak years, partly due to COVID-19 and partly high water in Lake Ontario, which flooded the relatively small beach. This year, COVID isn't seen as a factor, lake level is routine and people want to travel, especially those with small children.
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GoNetspeed is putting up the wires on those electric poles in Depew, Lancaster and Cheektowaga. It's also putting the paperwork together to put fiber lines on poles in the Lockport area. It's very high speed with fiber to the homes, potentially thousands of them.
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There's $54 million state and federal dollars coming in to continue reopening Main Street to cars, mostly on the old Metro Rail pedestrian mall. Since the first section opened in 2009, it's taken $108 million and there may be more.
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Twenty years of planning and talk hasn't produced a final design of a future of the expressway, from removal to updating.
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The county's tourism is roaring back from the depths of the pandemic, running about 5% better than the last normal tourism year in 2019. And natives are returning to work from back home and may be staying permanently.
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National Labor Relations Board attorneys successfully argued to use a Buffalo Starbucks worker’s secret recording of a company meeting Monday, the first day of what could be months of proceedings against the coffee giant.
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Tops Markets is set to reopen its Jefferson Avenue store Friday morning, just over two months after a racially motivated mass shooting took place there. In the meantime, grassroots efforts are underway in an attempt to convince one of its competitors to consider building an East Buffalo store to help address an existing food desert.
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Niagara Falls had difficulty retaining workers for its hotels, restaurants and bars because thousands of workers drop out of the industry when they can't get full-time, full-year jobs.