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The United Way of Greater Rochester will use a $150,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to enhance its early childhood home visitation program with the goal of helping 800 low income parents in the Rochester area this year. The United Way’s home visitation trilogy of programs — Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teaches, and Building Healthy Children — helps new parents during the early stages of pregnancy through ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city and owners of Empire Outlets have committed to hire more than 1,200 people to work at New York City’s first outlet center through a new workforce training program starting in September, the Advance has learned. Empire Outlets, which is owned by BFC Partners and Goldman Sachs, is expected to create more than 1,200 permanent jobs when it opens next spring. Following a ...

The Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (MPTV) today announced a milestone with more than one million hires supported by the New York State Film Tax Credit Program since 2011. That number represents almost 80 percent of all jobs in the program since its inception in 2004. The more than one million hires were created by 1,156 productions that have participated in the Program and have ...

Wegmans announced today it will begin same-day delivery service in stores in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo starting in August. Wegmans has partnered with Instacart, a grocery delivery service based in San Francisco. The service allows some Wegmans customers- if they live in the store’s delivery area -to complete their grocery shopping online, and have their orders delivered to their doors in as little as an hour ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the expansion of wireless communication equipment maker John Mezzalingua Associates LLC’s headquarters in Central New York. The company moved its antenna systems group operations from Maryland to its headquarters in Liverpool, Onondaga County earlier this year. The project involved building renovations, new construction, and the purchasing of new machinery ...

Health insurance giant Aetna will move its headquarters to Chelsea, Manhattan from Hartford, Conn., the company announced Thursday. The firm will begin setting up shop at a 145,000-square-foot facility across the street from Chelsea Market, at 61 Ninth Ave., next year. The vacant site is currently a construction zone. The new building will not be Aetna’s first location in the city — the company already has offices ...

ALBANY, N.Y., June 27, 2017 – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Upstate New York/Vermont Chapter and Albany Medical Center today announced a $100,000 donation to financially assist families of pediatric cancer patients at Albany Med. Richard Ostroff, of Slingerlands, an area businessman who continues his parents’ philanthropic legacy with the health organization, has established the Jules & Bonnie’s ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced an agreement to implement the purchase of American-made steel and iron products by state entities. Under the “Buy American” legislation, the Department of Transportation, Thruway Authority, Bridge Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

These are busy times at the Port of Albany. Some $49 million worth of improvements are expected to get underway this month, as the port prepares for an influx of shipping, thanks to the widening of the Panama Canal. And current shipments forced the relocation of the annual Port Industry Day from historic Shed One to a tent in the administration building’s parking lot. “The shed is full of cargo,” an official said last week. It appeared nearly every ...