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3 years since Governor Cuomo pledged incentives to WNY to lure business and jobs

"...Initially people criticized the billion because it wasn't getting out fast enough," said NYS Assemblyman Sean Ryan (D-149th District.

However, Ryan noted there is proof the money is "getting out" now, most notably at the largest project of the Buffalo Billion, the Buffalo High Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend

The structural steel has risen just over the past few weeks at the former Republic Steel site, where the state has committed more than half of the billion, to help build a hub for so-called "clean energy" businesses.

It is where SolarCity has promised to spend $5 billion over the next decade, to create the western hemisphere's largest solar panel manufacturing plant..."

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