NYSERDA awards Clean Tech Center $1.5 million for business-incubator program

SYRACUSE - The Center for Clean Tech Entrepreneurship in Syracuse will use a grant of $1.5 million to establish a clean-energy business incubator program.

The Clean Tech Center is part of the Tech Garden at 225 Harrison St. in downtown

Institute gets $35K grant for work with SU Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans

SYRACUSE - The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust (DAV) has granted the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) $35,000 to continue its partnership with the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU) to conduct the

Upstate consumer confidence slides as gas prices rise

Higher gas prices were to blame for a dip in Upstate consumer confidence in June, according to the latest monthly survey from the Siena (College) Research Institute (SRI).

The overall consumer confidence level among Upstate respondents dropped 4.3

SBA Patriot Express program supports $5 million in local loans during first two years

Since starting the program two years ago, the U.S. Small Business Administration has supported more than $315 million in Patriot Express loans to more than 3,750 veterans and their spouses.

In that time period, the SBA district office in Syracuse

Van Buren firm wins contract for Southern Tier stimulus project

The New York State Department of Transportation has awarded an $807,000 contract to fix 54 highway culverts in Steuben County to Slate Hill Constructors, Inc. of Van Buren.

The project is the first in the Southern Tier being paid for with funding

Upstate Shredding at the top of the heap

OWEGO - A far cry from the art gallery he ran in New York City for seven years as a very young man, Adam Weitsman founded Upstate Shredding LLC in 1996.

Over the past 13 years, Upstate Shredding has grown to be the largest privately owned scrap