Business First of Buffalo articles from April 1997

Business First of Buffalo archives from April 1997

Labor targets Ted's restaurants in union dispute. (Niagara Building and Construction Trades Council pickets Ted's Jumbo Red Hots Inc. for using non-union contractor)
April 7, 1997... A local restaurant chain is in the middle of a dispute between union and non-union construction workers. The Niagara Building and Construction Trades Council are picketing a Ted's Jumbo Red Hots Inc. construction site in Lockport because the...

Fans still buying Bison's pitch. (NorthAmeriCare Park ballpark)
April 7, 1997... They built it and the people came. As North AmeriCare Park, formerly Pilot Field, enters its 10th season, the baseball stadium has set the tone for downtown's emergence as the regional sports and entertainment center. The ballpark proves that...

Hospitals pairing off to cut operating costs. (Genesee Memorial and St. Jerome hospitals)
April 7, 1997... Pairs of hospitals in Batavia and Niagara County have completed steps that are bringing them closer to merging, or nearly merging. Genesee Memorial and St. Jerome hospitals in Batavia have cleared legal hurdles and are now investigating...

Following a plan: associate director at Canisius center teaches business owners how companies survive. (Canisius College Center for Entrepreneurship)(Special Report: Economic & Industrial Development)
April 7, 1997... When John Wynne started a business at age 32, he and his partner knew they would likely not want to do the same thing forever. So they planned an exit strategy to allow themselves to do other things professionally. "We knew from the day we...

Future worries WNYers, poll shows. (Western New York)
April 21, 1997... Most adults in Erie County believe that financially they are holding their own. But they also admit to having nagging doubts about the future. These divergent views are commonly held, as shown by a new Business First-Goldhaber Research...

Lockport Savings builds empire. (Lockport Savings Bank)
April 21, 1997... The giants are gone but David lives on. Less than six years after the fall of Goldome and Empire of America - multi-billion-dollar thrifts that ruled the region in the 1980s - Lockport Savings Bank is forcing Western New York to stand up and...

Developing poor neighborhoods is exercise in trust.
April 21, 1997... Paula Alcala Rosner has a different approach to economic development when she applies it to a distressed region. Rosner, executive director of the Federal Enterprise Community in Buffalo, is charged with revitalizing some of the city's poorest...

Perfect image: process makes the prototype for production. (Line By Line Design Inc.)
April 21, 1997... Who's who: Joseph Cosenza, president James Klein, vice president Total employees: 7 What's going on: Line by Line offers product design services, solid modeling and precision rapid prototyping. Since November, the company has provided...

Home is where the heart is. (fixing up an older home)(Special Report: Luxury Living & Residential Real Estate)
April 21, 1997... Fixing up an older home has more to do with emotions than finances Why would someone willingly buy an older house knowing they are going to have to spend a lot of money to fix it up? Are they gluttons for punishment? Or maybe they're Bob...