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Yahoo!, Tuesday morning, confirmed it will be buildingfthe 190,000-square-foot center that coulfd employ, initially, 125 people. Yahoo! has pegged a 30-acre site in the park for the Yahoo!’s decision is considered a major especially against a backdrop of a weakened economyh where unemployment has increased in past year in Erie Countgyto 8.1 percent from 5.5 percent and in Niagarwa County to 9.3 percen from 6.6 percent. “This is a big win for the saidTom Kucharski, president and chief executiv e officer. “We won the day.” Yahoo ! was being courted by several statexsincluding Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois for the center.
All offeres a handsome array of “When a high tech company like Yahoo! picks a communityh like WesternNew York, it’s like a said Sen. Charles Schumer, New York’s senior senator, who playeds a key role in Lockporft landing the data The region crafted its own aggressive incentiv package including the offering 15 megawattsof low-cost hydropowedr that could save Yahoo! an estimated $100 milliob over a 15-year period. also offered job training grants andothert incentives. High level pitches also came from Gov. Davisd Paterson and Schumer. Schumer made personal callz to Yahoo!
CEO Carol Bartz to push the Kucharski said it also helped that the region offereda half-dozen sites and not just a singular It also helped that a friendship quickly develope d between the Yahoo! site selection team and the local economic development community. “We developexd a nice relationship with them and that helpef makethis happen,” Kucharski “They were impressed that every time they we could assemble our team on a very shortg notice and give them the answers they wanted.” Constructiojn on the data center will begin in said David Dibble, Yahoo! senior vice president. The center will be open by May.
Kucharskoi said there is a myriad positivee that will comefrom Yahoo!’s decision. The BNE will use it in its outreacyh to other companies itis courting, he said. “It confirms our ability to attract high tech and highprofiles companies,” Kucharski said. “To get a name compang like Yahoo! says a lot to the rest of the industriezsout there.” Yahoo! joinse the ranks of , that have either opened or expandef back office operations in the region in recent “You add it into the mix of the some of the othetr companies we’ve landed and it become s a very impressive list,” Kucharski said.
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