How Elon Musk Can Make Buffalo Known for More Than Wings
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Local legend says it was 50 years ago when Teressa Bellissimo dropped fried chicken wings into a vat of hot sauce at the Anchor Bar. The result became Buffalo’s most celebrated export.
Now the city in western New York is banking on a different recipe that Mayor Byron Brown says will bring 12,000 jobs in the next three years: a collaboration among elected officials, businesses and universities. As part of the program, billionaire Elon Musk is opening the largest solar-panel factory of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.