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"Finding sports and entertainment was like the best thing to happen," said Nicholas Karoly, executive chef for Legends Global. "You have such happy people and now we get to cook them great food."

“I made a very conscious decision and commitment that I would sacrifice career time… to raise him, to be an active hands-on father,” said Royce Woods. “What I have found in Buffalo is I don’t need to sacrifice much."

The Waterford Park home with a library, pool house and four-car garage is the latest Erie County property to sell for more than $1 million.

“I just want people to understand there are people choosing this,” said Kathy Stout of Invest Buffalo Niagara. “I’m not being forced. I’m not being strong-armed. This makes a lot of sense for us."

“his is just a really good example of good strategy, execution, communication and a wonderfully passionate fanbase that really wanted to participate and an ownership group that did it the right way,” said Chad Estis of Legends Global.

ACV had total revenue of $418.133 million for the first half of 2026, an increase over $376.4 million in Q1 and Q2 of 2025.

The Town of Amherst is nearing double digit million-dollar home sales in 2026.

“There's definitely a growing interest in both cooperative community and what we're doing in natural foods and the local foods that we specialize in,” said Tim Bartlett of Lexington Co-op.

“That's why this tends to end up happening ... people wait too long and they don't think about it until it's too late,” said Olivia Goldstein of Upstate Venture Connect. “But I think the scary part for me was kind of like, why is it so much worse here?”

Don Dierig has more than 40 years of experience in the sports hospitality business, including 15 years as general manager of Great American Ball Park.