Odoo Inc., a Belgian-based business software company that has steadily expanded its presence in Buffalo, is poised to double its staff here as part of an expansion that it said will create 350 jobs over the next five years.
The company, which has been looking to expand its presence in Buffalo for two years, now has 175 workers here. The company purchased seven floors in the Fountain Plaza building from the state for $1 as part of its commitment to expand in Buffalo.
That space originally was acquired by the state as part of its Buffalo Billion program to create an IBM technology hub that state officials hoped would bring in high-paying and sought-after software development and other technology jobs.
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But the IBM hub has largely failed to meet those expectations and has branched out to include call center operations that provide technical assistance, rather than the highly skilled jobs for programmers, data analysis and software developers that were initially envisioned. The state has been trying to lease at least four of the floors since at least 2020.
The Odoo expansion gives the state the chance to bring new jobs and opportunity to space it once hoped would…
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