Mayor Lovely Warren has faced intense scrutiny lately over her security detail, but she now has a political win on the books, too.
Costco
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Deal may avert detention center, Costco problem
Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature are re-evaluating their decision to block a big county borrowing measure. Details are fuzzy, but it looks like the measure may now have enough votes to pass. Democrats have held the legislation up since December in an attempt to get Republicans to support their plan to have the Legislature lead a review of local development corporations affiliated with the county.
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State will finish detention center work
Monroe County will be able to move its children’s detention center to the Industry Residential Center in Rush as of January 10, say state officials.
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Dems float detention center funding plan
Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature say they have a plan to pass financing for a new children’s detention center — the center is already in the works. But Legislature Republicans have already rejected the idea once. This latest proposal is just another aspect of a boiling — and increasingly sprawling — feud in the […]
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Dems again block borrowing; GOP says Costco at risk
An ongoing County Legislature feud is only going to get more complicated, now that a proposed Costco store and the county’s Children’s Detention Center are getting dragged into it. The conflict has its roots in two issues: a Democratic proposal to form a committee to conduct an internal review related to county-linked local development corporations; […]
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Costello lays out CityGate plans for Mt. Hope neighbors
Developer Anthony Costello met with residents of the Upper Mt. Hope Neighborhood last night to discuss his company’s CityGate project. He pitched the project as a walkable, mixed-use development that will draw on the canal front and incorporate some of the history of the Iola campus. Costello and his son, Brett, announced new plans for […]
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CityGate plans include a Costco
This post has been corrected and clarified. Developers Anthony and Brett Costello are rebooting their proposed CityGate project in Rochester, revealing at a press conference this morning that Costco will be CityGate’s anchor tenant. CityGate would be located at the former Iola Campus at the intersection of East Henrietta and Westfall roads. A previous CityGate […]
