Happy 50th to SOFLENS, the first mass-produced soft contact lens in the U.S.
Bausch + Lomb
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From flour to photonics
Today’s tech businesses have roots in the city’s river-powered mills
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Solar city
The largest solar power system in the City of Rochester is tucked unobtrusively behind the Bausch + Lomb building on North Goodman Street. The 3,600 glass-and-metal panels at the corner of Northland Avenue and Lyceum Street sit at the end of a quiet neighborhood and are partially shielded from view. The Bausch + Lomb system […]
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Former B+L tower emerges as another possible photonics HQ site
The Sibley Building isn’t the only downtown site in the running for the headquarters of a new advanced photonics institute. This morning, the Rochester Business Alliance sent out a statement from a group of local business leaders, urging SUNY Polytechnic Institute officials and other institute decision-makers to put the headquarters in Legacy Tower — formerly […]
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Lessons from Detroit
Last week was a tough week in Rochester, with the news about Valeant moving the B+L headquarters to New Jersey and laying off hundreds of employees here. And I keep thinking about Detroit’s bankruptcy. There are a lot of differences between us, certainly, beginning with the sheer magnitude of Detroit and its problems. Detroit spreads […]
