SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Hillary Clinton will hold a separate meeting with small business owners from across Central New York when she visits Syracuse on Friday, her campaign said today.

The roundtable discussion with the Democratic presidential front-runner will be at 11:45 a.m. Friday at the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central, 285 East Adams St.

Clinton campaign officials said the roundtable discussion will focus on her plan to support small businesses and encourage growth in advanced manufacturing jobs in places like Central New York.

The names of the local participants in the meeting were not immediately available.

Clinton, a former two-term U.S. senator from New York, plans to highlight her work to help establish the Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative. The partnership between eBay and New York colleges helped small businesses market online and sell products around the world.

Clinton's visit to Syracuse on Friday will be her first since 2012, when she spoke at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs while serving as U.S. secretary of state.

After meeting with the small business owners, Clinton will speak at an organizing event at 2 p.m. Friday at the Central New York Regional Market on Park Street in Syracuse.

Doors to the event in Shed F at the Regional Market will open at noon. The event is open to the public, but the Clinton campaign requests an RSVP through its website.

Clinton will also raise some money while she is in Syracuse. Campaign donors who pay $2,700 per person will be able to have their photo taken with Clinton before her Regional Market event.

Both Clinton and Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders say they will campaign across New York ahead of the state April 19 primary. New York is second only to California in the number of Democratic delegates at stake to the party's national convention in July.

Sanders has not yet announced any plans to visit the Syracuse area, but his supporters have opened a Syracuse office and paid for ads on Centro buses.

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