$2,500,000 a piece!

New York State is giving these 4 towns in Western New York all of this money to put into their downtowns: North Tonawanda, Lackawanna, Gowanda and Dunkirk.

They had applied to get the funds.

Governor Cuomo was in town to address all 4 mayors:

Let's get more nuanced, and more of a regional approach, and more downtown revitalization in some of the smaller cities," Cuomo said. "So we really start to spread out that growth. Because the strongest growth is when the entire region is working", according to WGRZ.

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