[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11773]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      BUFFALO IS BACK IN BUSINESS

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I come to the House floor to talk about the 
extraordinary transformation in the city of Buffalo and Buffalo's 
waterfront. The national publication, The Economist, had declared last 
week that the city of Buffalo is back in business.
  Buffalo was once an industrial economy and an industrial working 
waterfront. Today, there is a transformation of public places along the 
water's edge attracting some 800,000 people from all over Buffalo, 
western New York, and southern Ontario into the city of Buffalo. There 
are 425 cultural and arts events. Four years ago, there were none.
  Buffalo's last 36 months have been a period of great progress, with 
tens of millions of dollars of private sector investment following the 
public investment of infrastructure that has transformed Buffalo's 
waterfront. The last 36 months have been a period of great progress. 
The next 36 months are poised to be a period of even greater progress.

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