Buffalo, NY - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
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The chief industries in Buffalo and the surrounding area are railroad commerce Charlotte is also a major center in the US motorsports industry, with NASCAR having multiple offices in and around Charlotte. Approximately 75% of the industry's employees and drivers are based within two hours of downtown Charlotte. Charlotte is also the future home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, expected to be completed in 2009. , steel manufacture,automobile production, Great Lakes shipping and grain storage. The regional economy can now best be described as a mix of industrial, light manufacturing, high technology and service-oriented private sector companies.
Buffalo has also increasingly become a center for Bio-informatics and human genome research. Another successful industry in Buffalo is debt collection. The food and beverage industry has also developed well in Bufalo.
The city is the heart of the Canadian-American corridor. Over 80% of all U.S.-Canada trade occurs via border crossings in the eastern United States and with five bridges to Canada, the Buffalo area is one of the key eastern border crossing locations.
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