Business leaders tout benefits of IBM’s arrival downtown

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Jonathan D. Epstein

As downtown Buffalo rolls out the red carpet to welcome Big Blue to Fountain Plaza, many of the city’s real estate, business and political leaders are touting the spinoff benefits they expect all along Main Street when IBM Corp. comes to the heart of the central business district.

First, there is the stabilizing factor that IBM will bring to the Key Center building, filling space being vacated by Delaware North Companies.

“We’re absolutely elated,” said Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown.

Then there are the 500 new jobs with a Fortune 500 company coming to downtown as part of a new technology “hub.”

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