Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - The Erie County Stadium Corporation is scheduled to meet Wednesday to approve plans for the new home of the Buffalo Bills.
Heading into the meeting, which had been delayed for weeks, an area labor leader tells WBEN he's satisfied with the final plans, for the most part.
Paul Brown of the Buffalo Building Trades Council says the board needs to vote for the stadium plans, which is expected occur without issue. Then, Erie County lawmakers must give their stamp of approval.
For his part, Brown tells us he's hoping as many local workers are brought in for the massive and impactful building project. "It's more the contractors," explains Brown. "Say a contractor bids a job here, and he makes to say $1 million on the job. He just takes it home with him wherever he could be from instead of being here where the local contractors here spend their money here," He says it makes sense not to have it leave the area, which he why he was adamant about the local contractors with local hiring.
Brown says he has heard some contractors have been soliciting in Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, "So I'm hoping that that our local guys here can bid this thing competitively and get the work."
Brown says once approval is reached, groundbreaking could happen as early as June.
When asked in recent week of where the project stands, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said she feels the project is on track for a groundbreaking in the first half of 2023, as originally promised when the deal was struck for the new stadium.
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