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CenterState CEO and GSBDC unite to better support small businesses in Central New York

WAER | By Robert Beck

Published April 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM EDT

CenterState CEO President Robert Simpson at a press conference.

A pair of local economic development agencies will be working together in an effort to improve services to small businesses.

CenterState CEO and the Greater Syracuse Business Development Corporation will partner so that those small businesses looking for funding and support can go to one location. Both will now operate from CenterState CEO’s offices.

The goal is to be able to better address a growing number of new businesses in the region.

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Bob Beck, a veteran media professional, currently serves as a part-time editor/host at WAER Public Radio and an adjunct professor at Syracuse University. Beck retired as News Director at Wyoming Public Radio in 2022 after 34 years. During his time, Beck won 5 regional Edward R. Murrow awards and 5 Public Media Journalists Association awards for reporting. He also won 11 PMJA awards for the news and public affairs program Open Spaces. He was awarded the Wyoming School Bell award for education reporting and was part of two Emmy Award winning television productions. You can find him on X under the name @butterbob.

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