The Public Accountability Initiative has released a new report on retailer Bass Pro’s record as a subsidized development anchor in cities across the country. Click here to download the full report.

The report was the subject of a Buffalo News story on Wednesday. Several media outlets in the Western New York are have picked up the story, including WKBW-TV,  WBEN 930 AM, WNED-AM 970, YNN, and WIVB.

WIVB’s evening version closed by noting that Jordan Levy, Chairman of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (the public authority overseeing the Bass Pro-centered Canal Side project), has “concerns negative media could keep the retailer from opening a store here”:

This statement suggests that the ECHDC may be trying to suppress media coverage and general public scrutiny of the Canal Side project.  Nevertheless, PAI anticipates additional media coverage of the report’s content, as well as the questions and concerns it raises regarding Bass Pro’s record of soliciting public subsidies for the purpose of promoting economic development.