The University at Buffalo is using the Start-Up NY program to fill up empty space in its downtown Gateway Building.

Five companies have announced plans to relocate into the Gateway Building over the past two months. They’ve pledged a collective 157 jobs over the next five years. Three of those businesses are graduating from Z80 Labs Inc., a tech-based incubator in downtown Buffalo, including ClearView Social, which expects to create 47 jobs, CoachMePlus, which projects 25 new jobs and Decision Pace, which says it will create 49 jobs.

The other two companies include Clinical Support Services Inc., which is relocating from Larkinville and expects to create 16 net new jobs, and IFYE Association of the USA Inc., which was recruited from Colorado and expects to create 10 jobs.

In all, the Gateway Building has 65,310 square feet of space designated for Start-Up NY, nearly a third of its footprint. The university purchased the building, formerly M. Wile & Company Factory Building, in 2007 and has made it an important part of its ever-expanding downtown footprint. It is connected to the $26 million Educational Opportunity Center, a new building that opened in 2013. UB has a variety of offices in the building, including its Regional Institute and Millard Fillmore College. The Buffalo Employment and Training Center, UBMD office space and URS Corp. all have offices there.

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