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By Tom Precious | News Albany Bureau
ALBANY IBM is committing to bring 500 jobs to a new, 100,000-square-foot, state-owned computer information technology center in Buffalo to train future and current industry workers and to create cutting-edge software for energy, health, defense and other industries, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to announce today.
Big Blue, as IBM sometimes is known, has also agreed to bolster a separate though likely linked endeavor by becoming the first corporate technology member of the recently announced New York Genomic Medicine Center, a $100 million new partnership between a genome research facility in Manhattan and the University at Buffalos center for computational research, according to Cuomo administration officials.
Some details of the announcement were provided to The Buffalo News on Sunday.
The new facility to house IBM, and what the state hopes will be other private sector companies involved in the expansive field of information technology services, is expected to open in downtown Buffalo in early 2015. Officials said a precise location for the new site downtown has not yet been finalized.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/development/ibm-to-bring-500-new-jobs-to-buffalo-20140224
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I hope they do that in other places as well.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)go.
Too bad then.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)is that only for small businesses?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)up their new office in Buffalo.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)although it doesn't state it in black and white. You can bet that IBM got plenty of incentives to do this. I do hope that Cuomo insisted that deal include terms that will result in real New Yorkers actually getting those jobs. Given half a chance, IBM (and any other big corporation) would grab the money and then fill the jobs with the cheapest offshore labor they can find.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Don't count on Cuomo for anything.
HappyinLA
(129 posts)for my hometown. Hope it leads to more businesses coming to town.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)although it doesn't state it in black and white. You can bet that IBM got plenty of incentives to do this. I do hope that Cuomo insisted that deal include terms that will result in real New Yorkers actually getting those jobs. Given half a chance, IBM (and any other big corporation) would grab the money and then fill the jobs with the cheapest offshore labor they can find.