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Giga New York

2017 establishments in New York (state)Buildings and structures in Erie County, New YorkManufacturing plants in the United StatesTesla factoriesUse mdy dates from September 2017
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Tesla Giga New York (or Gigafactory 2) is a photovoltaic (PV) cell factory leased by Tesla subsidiary SolarCity in Riverbend, Buffalo, New York. The factory, owned by the State of New York, was built on brownfield land remediated from a former steel mill. Construction of the factory, rebranded as RiverBend, started in 2014 and was completed in 2016–17. In 2013, the site of Giga New York was planned as a clean energy business incubation center. As SolarCity acquired Silevo in 2014 and merged into Tesla two years later, the factory was planned. The factory, in a partnership with Panasonic, started limited assembly of photovoltaic modules in 2017 using imported Japanese PV cells. It began commercial production of modules in 2017. In 2018, SolarCity began production of individual solar cells. In late 2019 or early 2020 Tesla began commercial installation of version 3 of its "Solar Roof" product manufactured at the factory.Panasonic stopped manufacturing solar panels at the factory in 2020. The same year, Tesla began producing charging equipment for its Supercharger network at the factory, and its solar deployments grew to 205 megawatts of generating capacity. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employment at the factory decreased in the first half of 2020, but by the end of 2021, the number of employees at the factory had increased to more than 1,460, as Tesla had promised New York State.

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Giga New York
South Park Avenue, Buffalo

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N 42.859 ° E -78.84 °
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South Park Avenue 1339
14220 Buffalo
New York, United States
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The John F. Kamman Building is a historic commercial building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It designed by Buffalo architect F.W. Caulkins and built in 1883. A four-story brick building, it was designed in the Romanesque Renaissance style. The Kamman Building is located within the Hydraulics Neighborhood, Buffalo's oldest manufacturing district. A post office substation was located in the building starting in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.A 4-story building of "7-rank brick" and Medina sandstone it has a ground floor storefront featuring cast iron pilasters, a lion head ornament and a "The Kamman" sign above the door.The property was owned by the Kamman family until 1916, when it was sold to the Larkin Company.The building's location in the Hydraulics area was near the large livestock yards and rail lines booming in the nineteenth-century (Buffalo was second only to Chicago in the number of cattle and hogs it handled). German butchers such as the Kamman family (immigrants who arrived in the mid-1800s) established themselves. Henry Kamman ran a butcher shop at 573-575 Seneca Street and Jefferson Avenue while brother John F. Kamman purchased property in the 700 block of Seneca during the 1850s and early 1860s and built the J. F. Kamman Slaughterhouse including barns, processing buildings, and sheds. The family also lived on the property. The Kamman Building was constructed around 1886 by John F. Kamman at 755-757 Seneca Street. John H. Kamman (son of Henry) continued the trade and the John H. Kamman Company was built into one of the city's largest meat markets and grocery store chains (including more than 30 stores). The Kamman Building at 757 Seneca Street was home to one of the markets in 1903.