"There's opportunity for women and minority-owned businesses to get a piece of the pie as more development comes to downtown Buffalo as a result of the Buffalo Billion,"Hochul said. "[There's] the explosion of growth with the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus, what's happening in downtown Buffalo with the HarborCenter, what's happening over where Solar City is going to be coming."

"There are opportunities that were never there in my entire lifetime. We want everyone to have a piece of that because it elevates the entire community.”

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="280"] Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared in Amherst on Wednesday. | Credit File/WBFO[/caption]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains committed to giving women and minority-owned businesses their chance to earn billions of dollars in state contracts. That was a message shared in Western New York Wednesday morning by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who took part in a roundtable discussion at the Amherst Chamber of Commerce.

Meeting with Hochul were representatives from the University at Buffalo, Buffalo State College, Amherst Chamber of Commerce and numerous private companies from sectors including development and health care.

Following the closed-door meeting, Hochul told reporters of the Cuomo Administration's commitment to getting businesses owned by women and minorities more involved, through the Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise initiative.

 

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