Connections: What Can We Do With $500 million?

WXXI News | By Juan Vazquez

Published September 1, 2015 at 5:37 PM EDT

What would you do with $500 million? The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council is competing for that state money, a taxpayer-infused boost for the winning regions. Three will be chosen; four will not. On Tuesday, we sit down with the people leading the effort to land the cash. What are the plans? What is the strategy? In studio:

Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester
Anne Kress, president of Monroe Community College
Mark Peterson, CEO of the Greater Rochester Enterprise

Connections with Evan Dawson

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