The Brookings Institute released research earlier this year on what it termed a surge in Latino/Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. Between 2017 and 2022, such firms grew in the vast majority of metro areas in the country.

That included the upstate metros along the Thruway from Albany to Buffalo.

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