Sentences with phrase «solarcity factory project»

In Buffalo, the immediate question is a simple one: Can the SolarCity factory project at RiverBend in South Buffalo be completed on time and start producing solar panels sometime next spring as promised?

Lately, the governor and his aides have portrayed Schwartz's role as more limited, saying that he will essentially just review contracts and documents that are already public, including any deals that result from a recent state allocation of $ 485 million to the Buffalo Billion's SolarCity factory project.

Not exact matches

Delays have bruised several projects, and one of the state's key corporate partners — SolarCity, a power company backed by Elon Musk that intends to open a huge solar - panel factory on the Buffalo River — has watched its stock price plunge over the past year.

Aside from the $ 750 million factory for SolarCity, 43North has attracted more hype than any other project funded by Gov. Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative.

One is the governor's flagship Buffalo project, a solar panel factory for SolarCity, whose chairman is Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors.

The federal probe has focused on the Buffalo Billion economic development project to build a solar panel factory for SolarCity, but also includes real estate developers working on projects in other cities.

The same month, SolarCity's SEC filings included the reduced number of projected jobs at the factory.

The proposed acquisition of the company comes after a significant state investment in the RiverBend site, where a factory for SolarCity is being built, a key project in the Buffalo Billion economic development program.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie signaled support for Buffalo's SolarCity project at RiverBend but cautioned that his house is still doing its «due diligence» on the Cuomo administration's request for $ 485 million to complete the solar panel factory in South Buffalo.

The Buffalo Billion — known for spurring the development of South Buffalo's SolarCity factory, as well as other regional investment projects — is under investigation for the ways in which its funds were allocated.

Amid a probe by US Attorney Preet Bharara's office of the Buffalo Billion, one of the initiative's signature projects, a SolarCity factory, is set to ramp up its hiring in a big way.

Aside from constructing the SolarCity factory, LPCiminelli has worked on a long list of public projects, including a 10 - year, $ 1.3 billion construction program to renovate 48 Buffalo Public Schools buildings.

The resignations come as LPCiminelli — the region's biggest contractor — continues to operate under a cloud of scrutiny over the executives» alleged corruption tied to a $ 750 million state contract for the Buffalo Billion project to build a solar panel factory for SolarCity off South Park Avenue.

«In addition, job growth in Buffalo during the expansion had been buoyed by a surge in construction jobs associated with major projects such as the SolarCity factory and Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

The SolarCity factory is perhaps the most ambitious project among Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» investments in Western New York.

Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney and Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom discuss the latest developments involving the SolarCity project in Buffalo, including a reduction in planned factory jobs from 1,460 to 500.

People with experience in large construction projects say it is unusual that the «build phase» of the SolarCity factory is ending while installation of hundreds of millions of dollars» worth of equipment has yet to get started.

The company, according to a person familiar with the development program, worked on one of the main projects, a solar - panel factory for SolarCity, whose chairman is Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors.

SolarCity was asked last week whether the federal probe would affect the factory timetable, whether Zemsky's agency taking over the project would affect the company's relationship with the state and whether vendors are ready to deliver their equipment on time.

After Kaloyeros was charged back in September, Cuomo had ESD take over SUNY Poly's economic development projects, including the billion dollar SolarCity factory in Buffalo.

RiverBendBuffalo Billion commitment: $ 750 millionThe project: The state is building the biggest solar panel factory in the Western hemisphere for SolarCity on a 90 - acre former brownfield at the Republic Steel site on the Buffalo River in South Buffalo.

But the SolarCity's project commitment to diversity was called into question after Investigative Post broke the news that the minority hiring goal at the SolarCity factory was lowered from 25 to 15 percent: