Northland Workforce Training Center hosted a hiring event on April 29, 2021, for its students and recent graduates where manufacturing facilities met with hopefuls looking for tech careers. Building an advanced manufacturing workforce in the Northland Corridor is among how the $25 million in tech hub funds won by Buffalo will be used.
By Jon Harris and Jerry Zremski
News Staff Reporters
Buffalo is one of the big winners in the Biden administration's Build Back Better Challenge, securing $25 million in a competitive process that pitted Western New York against hundreds of U.S. cities in the battle to be selected as a tech hub, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday.Â
Western New York could be in line for as much as $100 million in federal funds to train workers and otherwise prepare for becoming a national hub for high-tech manufacturing.
Schumer said Tuesday that he used his time with the president that day to lobby Biden to push the Commerce Department to choose Buffalo as one of the cities to receive up to $100 million under the administration's "Build Back Better Challenge." Buffalo is already a finalist for that award.
For the Buffalo Niagara region, the stakes are high. The program offers the chance to jump-start the region's undersized tech sector in a way …
Northland Workforce Training Center hosted a hiring event on April 29, 2021, for its students and recent graduates where manufacturing facilities met with hopefuls looking for tech careers. Building an advanced manufacturing workforce in the Northland Corridor is among how the $25 million in tech hub funds won by Buffalo will be used.