For the Top Economic Development News of the Month, CEG selects news articles about projects or developments that promise to improve and/or transform the Capital Region’s economy, particularly those that related to manufacturing and initiatives outlined in Capital 20.20, a five-year, multi-pronged plan for bringing economic prosperity to the entire
Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on: CEG IN THE NEWS Times Union: SEEN: The Center For Economic Growth Annual Meeting 2018
l Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on: CEG IN THE NEWS Business Review: What’s next for GlobalFoundries after its pivot
Capital Region technology firms received more than 18 percent more in federal R&D seed funding, totaling $12.8 million in fiscal 2017, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of data on SBIR.gov. SBIR and STTP Programs Eight Capital Region firms received $10.6 million in Small Business Innovation
Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on: CEG IN THE NEWS Times Union: Plug Power will create 97 jobs at new Clifton
Accelerate Update Two years after announcing the Accelerate Capital Campaign, CEG continues to see new companies and regional organizations becoming investors and helping shape the Capital Region’s economy. Our newest investors are: • Bender Lane Advisory • BestPass Inc. • Black Chamber of Commerce • The Bonadio Group •
Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on: CEG IN THE NEWS Times Union: Saratoga Springs to host semiconductor conference in October Business
Three of New York’s top 10 fastest-growing cities were in the Capital Region in 2017. Even more, on a year-over-year basis, the eight-county region also housed the state’s second and third fastest-growing towns and fastest-growing village, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau
The area’s homeownership rate last year rose for the first time since 2010. The uptick in this rate may provide clues to the area’s coinciding increase in its unemployment rate for the first time in six years, though economists remain divided over whether there is not only correlative but also
Residents of the Capital Region and its outlying counties are increasingly crossing county and state lines – and traveling longer – to get to work. At the same time, greater shares of workers in the region’s neighboring counties in Massachusetts and Vermont are likewise commuting across state lines. Taken together,
