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Syracuse’s future ON-RAMP facility needs to be a place where diverse people from across the community can feel welcome to utilize resources that can aid their success. So, a vital part of the ongoing planning and design process of this future workforce training facility is community engagement and input.

Helping to lead the community engagement portion of the ON-RAMP planning process is the Urban Jobs Task Force Executive Director Tylah Worrell. She’s hosted feedback sessions across the community and collected comments from people the future ON-RAMP facility aims to serve. Tylah joins this episode of Talk CNY, presented by NBT Bank, to discuss what she’s heard so far and how that feedback is being incorporated into what ON-RAMP will become.

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The NY SMART I-Corridor, a consortium of partners from Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, is one of just 12 groups to receive a federal Tech Hub award and the only Tech Hub focused the semiconductor industry. The federal government saw local leaders’ strategy and existing regional assets and determined the NY SMART I-Corridor region has what it takes to be the next globally critical semiconductor industry hub.

To support this growth, the federal government awarded the NY SMART I-Corridor Tech Hub more than $40 million for initiatives and projects that will help us grow and ensure all residents have access to opportunity.

On Part 1 of our Tech Hub conversation, CenterState CEO’s Chief of Staff Ben Sio, OneROC President and CEO Joe Stefko and Buffalo Niagara Partnership President and CEO Dottie Gallagher joined Talk CNY to discuss how the NY SMART I-Corridor came to be. On this episode of Talk CNY, presented by NBT Bank, we are joined again by Ben, Joe and Dottie to talk about the projects and work ahead as our region tries to reach its goals.

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Around 400 communities applied to the federal Tech Hubs program, a program designed to support tech-based economies in underinvested areas. Of those, only 12 received a Tech Hub designation and federal dollars to support and implement their strategies.

The NY SMART I-Corridor, a coalition of partners from Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and Ithaca, is one of those 12 Tech Hubs. And it’s the only designated Tech Hub in the US focused on the semiconductor industry. That means 40 million dollars from the federal government and 8 million dollars from the state are coming to upstate New York to support the growth of a world-class semiconductor industry hub right here.

Building this successful application was no small task.

On this episode of Talk CNY, presented by NBT Bank, we speak to three people who helped to lead the process: CenterState CEO’s Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President of Strategy, Policy and Planning Ben Sio, OneROC’s President and CEO Joe Stefko and Buffalo Niagara Partnership’s President and CEO Dottie Gallagher. They join the show to discuss how the NY SMART I-Corridor came to be and the significance it holds for the regions involved.