The former Xerox Auditorium has been renovated into a 700-seat performing arts center that will serve as a venue for a variety of arts organizations.
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Local teacher-artist couple invests in Innovation Square theater
The Innovation Square plaza also includes a 700-seat auditorium, which its investors Natalie Fuller and Karl Stabnau plan to have up and running by early summer.
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Urban Action 6/12
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Rochester’s innovation economy The Rochester Downtown Development Corporation and Greater Rochester Enterprise will present “Growing the Innovation Economy: Tapping Talent and Place to Ignite Rochester” on Tuesday, June 18. Panelists will discuss what […]
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New RBTL theater could boost all arts venues, consultant says
A new report suggests that a new larger theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League can have a positive economic impact on other city arts venues. City officials commissioned the report from AMS Planning and Research, an arts and entertainment consulting firm, to study the new theater’s financial impact on existing arts organizations. Though the […]
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Walking on the riverfront
Just west of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, jutting out off of the sidewalk on the Court Street Bridge, is the entrance to a new pedestrian walkway that swerves out over the edge of the Genesee River. It then heads behind the restaurant where it stops for now due to construction of the new Nathaniel apartment complex on […]
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Public hearing on Genesee River development
The city will hold a public hearing regarding a plan to redevelop the Genesee River waterfront on Tuesday, May 1, at the Joseph Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Tensions build over a new RBTL theater
In April, Mayor Lovely Warren announced that she had chosen RBTL and Morgan Communities to develop Parcel 5, a key part of the former Midtown Plaza site. City Council has to approve sale of the land, and the mayor hasn’t sent Council a request for that sale. Warren’s choice was controversial from the beginning, because […]
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In Grove Place and PLEX neighborhoods, hopes and fears of development
This is the second article in an occasional series on neighborhoods and the fall city elections. If you had talked to people living downtown 10 years ago, many would have said they were concerned about how to revive it. Now the worry is more about how to manage rapid redevelopment. The Grove Place neighborhood – […]
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What housing downturn?
The much-hyped resurgence of Rochester’s downtown is being built on housing, both new developments and conversions. So any hint of a slowdown in the housing market is worrisome. But the January 3 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Luxury Apartment Boom Looks Set to Fizzle in 2017” shouldn’t overly concern Rochester officials, says Heidi Zimmer-Meyer, […]
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Conflict over construction at Sibley
Renovations are often disruptive, no matter the scale. So some sort of conflict between WinnCompanies and Monroe Community College’s Damon City Campus may have been inevitable. Winn owns and is renovating the Sibley Building downtown for housing and a high-tech incubator; MCC is a tenant in the building. The Monroe Community College Faculty Association sent […]
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Feedback 11/9
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Feedback 10/12
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