Top Seedz Opens Doors to New Downtown Buffalo Headquarters at 101 Oak Street

After Iskalo Development Corp. purchased the former Heritage Centers building at 101 Oak Street in 2018, it began looking to attract one or two anchor tenants for the 67,485-square-foot, single-story freestanding building.

In 2022, Big Ditch Brewing opened a new 40-barrel production brewery in the building (corner of Elm and Eagle), and now Top Seedz – a cracker company born and raised in Buffalo – announced it has successfully relocated its headquarters at 101 Oak. Street. Top Seedz has signed a lease for 35,000 square feet of the factory building and is now officially open in its new home.

Empire State Development (ESD) supported the company’s growth with up to $315,000 through the performance-based Excelsior Jobs Tax Credit Program in exchange for promised job commitments. The company is adding 20 employees to its current roster of 28.

From manning a booth at a local farmers market, to operating a 5,000 square foot facility in suburban Buffalo, to now expanding to a pretty huge footprint downtown, Top Seedz founder Rebecca Brady has truly come a long way since opening in 2017.

Now that Top Seedz is up and running at its expanded headquarters, the company will be able to produce 12,000 boxes of crackers in just four hours, thanks in part to new automated packaging equipment. Over the past six months, cracker production has tripled and new recruits are working extended hours to accommodate rapid growth.

Buffalo Rising caught up with Brady in 2022, about a year after his company received $1 million in a startup funding competition hosted by 43North. Interestingly, Brady’s workforce is 90% refugee women. Needless to say, Top Seedz has become a huge Buffalo success story, for many reasons. From supporting Buffalo’s local refugee community to reaching such economic heights in a relatively short period of time, Brady and his team deserve credit for accomplishing so much in a short period of time .

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