The Central Terminal hosts its First Annual New York State Wine & Cidre Festival on Saturday, June 23,2007 from 1to 6pm.  Great architecture encompasses the finest New York State wines and cidres, some of Buffalo’s most exciting restaurants, local farmer’s products and a variety of entertainments with plenty of free and secure parking.  Over 30 wineries and cideries providing 100 available samples will be available on the Central Terminal’s concourse, an event not affected by the weather.  Presale tickets are $20; day of event admission is $25, available at participating restaurants: Ulrich’s, Steel Drum, Samples, and Bistro Europa.  These restaurants will be on site selling food ranging from Central Europe to the Caribbean, from unique to familiar.  Local farmers will have for sale their own maple syrup, jellies & jams, cheese, baked goods and herbs & flowers.  Proceeds will be used to continue the restoration of the national Historic Landmark Buffalo Central Terminal.

From my friend Jon:

My company is hiring a Buffalo-based sales position. Myriad Genetic Laboratories (MYGN). It is an outside sales position that covers Buffalo to Jamestown to Olean to Niagara Falls. Great pay + bonus + benefits. This is a growing company that specializes in biotech and genetics.

Email me your resume at jkeller@gmail.com

Plus a couple new postings at Rich Products:

Executive Assistant

Senior Internal Auditor

Thanks once again to Paul Wolf for providing us with this information!

May 15, 2007   Did You Know?  By Paul Wolf, Esq.

* Nanodynamics a Buffalo technology company started in 2002 has grown to 107 employees and is seeking to build a new plant with funds raised by way of an initial stock offering. Nanodynamics has 19 patents and 35 patent applications. The company is focusing its research efforts on clean technology solutions for today’s global challenges, such as the development of electricity producing fuel cells and ceramic water filtering technology.

* Netex Services a bulk mail service company has expanded from a 4,500 Square foot site on Kenmore Avenue to 20,000 square feet of space in North Tonawanda. The company also has a 1,000 square foot location in downtown Buffalo. Last year the company handled 8 million letters and packages, this year they are expecting to handle 25 million. With mail rates increasing and becoming more complicated the growing company is planning to double its existing 15 person staff in the next six months.

* Two apartment buildings in Buffalo, the Bennett Apartments located on Benwood near Main Street and the Edge Park Apartments on Amherst Street near Delaware were sold for a combined $3.2 million. The two apartment buildings have a total of 82 units A West Seneca apartment complex located on Indian Church Road with 104 units was sold for $4.75 million.

* Daeman College is building a new $10 million academic facility for academic research and community programs in Amherst. The 45,000 square foot building will be the first free-standing “green” building on a Western New York college campus.

So, it looks like the Sabres’ season is just about over.  Short of a miracle comeback, tomorrow will be the last game of the season.  It’s hard to believe that a season that started out so hopeful will end short of the final goal.  A friend of mine always talks about pride, image and how the Sabres’ mean more to the city than just another sports franchise.  And he’s right.  The Sabres team this year has represented the hope of the city and what could be.  And that’s what makes it so hard.

So, after the last game is played, what will we do?  I hope that we’ll do what Buffalo has always done.  I hope that we’ll get up and continue to work harder toward that goal.  I hope that we’ll keep our flags on our cars, houses and still wear the t-shirts and hats (and jerseys) we bought as a show of support.  Buffalo is all about getting up tomorrow and fighting…so let’s fight…

Square blue plus sign

Originally uploaded by urbanmkr.

Our thanks to Paul Wolf, Esq., who provides us with these updates.

• Buffalo based Appraisal.com Inc., (located at 620 Main Street), a national provider of real estate appraisal software is growing. The company has a staff of 60, most of whom work for the Buffalo office, with plans to add an additional 40 new employees over the next year.
• According to the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, WNY supports 650 high-tech companies that employ 5,400 workers, and employment in this sector has grown 5.8% annually.
• The Upstate Niagara Cooperative consisting of 420 local dairy farmers is seeing the benefits of their new $32.5 million plant which opened last year in West Seneca.  Upstate’s sales grew by 9% last year to $500 million.  Employment at the plant grew by 10 workers to 142.  The plant processes about 110 million pounds of raw milk each year.  Yogurt has become the plant’s fastest growing product, distributed to customers in nearly every state.
• The University at Buffalo, North Campus, is experimenting with hydrogen powered cars.  Two Toyota Prius’s modified to run purely on hydrogen, are being driven by campus staff.  The vehicles are fueled at new hydrogen fueling stations located on the campus.
• The UB computer science department started in 1967 is one of the oldest computer departments in the country.  Among its notable graduates is Robin Li, who earned a master’s degree in computer science in 1994 and went on to found Baidu.com, the most popular Chinese-language Internet search engine in China.  Faculty have made key contributions as well such as Sargur Srihari, director of UB’s Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition, who has developed hand writing recognition software that is being used by the U.S. Postal Service to sort millions of pieces of mail.

UB’s Center for the Arts

Originally uploaded by caffeinatedgonzo.

Revitalize Buffalo has paired up with Buffalo 2032, Buffalo Jaycees and New Millennium Group for a presentation by UB’s President Simpson and Professor Shibley on the growth and future of UB.

Wednesday, May 2nd, 6:30 PM (program begins at 7), Karpeles Museum (Elmwood & North)

Don’t miss your chance at having input in UB’s future!