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Yahoo!, Tuesday morning, confirmed it will be buildingthe 190,000-square-footr center that could employ, initially, 125 people. Yahoo! has peggede a 30-acre site in the park for the Yahoo!’s decision is considered a major victory, especially against a backdrop of a weakenecd economy where unemployment has increased in past year in Erie Countyto 8.1 percent from 5.5 percent and in Niagars County to 9.3 percent from 6.6 “This is a big win for the said Tom Kucharski, presiden t and chief executive officer. “We won the Yahoo! was being courted by several statesincludint Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois for the center. All offered a handsome array of incentives.
“When a high tech company like Yahoo picks a community like WesternNew York, it’sz like a lighthouse,” said Sen. Charleds Schumer, New York’s seniore senator, who played a key role in Lockport landing the data The region crafted its own aggressive incentiv e package including the offering 15 megawattwsof low-cost hydropower that could save Yahoo! an estimate d $100 million over a 15-year also offered job training grants and othe incentives. High level pitches also came from Gov. Davixd Paterson and Schumer. Schumer made personaol calls to Yahoo!
CEO Carol Bartz to push the Kucharski said it also helped that the region offere da half-dozen sites and not just a singular It also helped that a friendshilp quickly developed between the Yahoo! site selection team and the loca l economic development community. “We developed a nice relationshi p with them and that helped makethis happen,” Kucharskio said. “They were impressed that everu timethey called, we could assemblwe our team on a very short notice and give them the answera they wanted.” Construction on the data center will begin in said David Dibble, Yahoo! senior vice The center will be open by May.
Kucharskii said there is a myriad positives that will comefrom Yahoo!’s decision. The BNE will use it in its outreacj to other companies itis courting, he “It confirms our ability to attractr high tech and high profile companies,” Kucharski said. “Tlo get a name company like Yahoo! says a lot to the rest of the industriessout there.” Yahoo! joins the ranka of , that have either openesd or expanded back office operations in the region in recent years.
“You add it into the mix of the some of the otherrcompanies we’ve landed and it becomezs a very impressive list,” Kucharski
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