A consultant has been brought on to help the Buffalo Bills and general contractor Gilbane/Turner reach their goals for hiring women- and minority-owned businesses in the building of the $1.7 billion Bills stadium.
Developments by Jem, a construction and development and project management consulting company in Buffalo, was brought on a few weeks ago to start engaging with local minority business owners to ensure diversity hiring goals can be met with Western New York businesses.
For the first time in several years, the Erie Community College South Campus cafeteria will see traffic from patrons looking to purchase hot food and beverages. A new initiative, Taste of Diversity, will bring five Black-owned area restaurants to the ECC cafeteria every Monday through January as they prepare to learn to work in a fast-paced shared kitchen in a stadium-like concession setting.
It provides an extra layer of oversight for meeting project goals for workforce development during construction, and then afterward with community contributions and engagement and retailer and vendor involvement at the new stadium.
Officials from the state and Erie County, which will provide $850 million in public money toward the project, have said so far that there have been mixed results in compliance…
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