{"id":494,"date":"2026-07-27T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:11:50","slug":"the-2026-upstate-power-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Upstate Power 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Decades ago, the Western New York politician Joel Giambra described the Buffalo Niagara International Airport as a \u201crunway of tears,\u201d given the exodus of young people fleeing upstate New York for jobs elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=492\">Should the state Legislature meet year-round? Maybe. Will it? Don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, upstate is building a runway of prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Micron is anchoring an economic cornerstone with its $100 billion new semiconductor plant outside of Syracuse that is expected to create more than 40,000 direct and indirect jobs. But that\u2019s not all. There is a new federally designated technology corridor connecting Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and tech projects in Albany will bookend the Micron complex. Binghamton has become a center for battery storage, resurrecting the days when IBM and Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company dominated the city\u2019s economy. The cruise industry is coming to Buffalo and a transformative project to expand the city\u2019s light rail to the suburbs is advancing. In the North Country, leaders have saved Plattsburgh\u2019s bus industry and want to show Canada that we are good neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=490\">When the state Capitol\u2019s empty, what do lobbyists do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City &amp; State\u2019s Upstate Power 100 puts a spotlight on the key players behind these projects \u2013 and other movers and shakers in New York\u2019s distinctive upstate regions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrelocationdigest.com\/?p=488\">Federal employees say they\u2019ll quit if they have to move to New Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movers and shakers from Western New York to the North Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,132,98],"tags":[7,133,100],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-state","category-power-lists","category-upstate","tag-new-york-state","tag-power-lists","tag-upstate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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