Downtown Rochester is safe. But the myth about its crime rate has been repeated so often that it’s now general public perception.
Downtown revitalization
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Downtown’s patron saint
Much of what you see when you catch a glimpse of the city’s skyline is part of Larry Glazer’s real estate empire. Glazer’s company, Buckingham Properties, either owns, co-owns, or manages nearly 13 million square feet of real estate space, including some of downtown Rochester’s most iconic buildings: Midtown Tower, Xerox Square, and the Bausch […]
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Expanded services possible downtown
The Rochester Downtown Development Corporation has proposed
the creation of a downtown business district that would, for a fee, provide
enhanced services to property owners within the district’s borders.
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A 21st century downtown
Disinvestment, deterioration, and conflicting visions have marred Rochester’s downtown for more than two decades. For years, Rochester’s main corridor has, for the most part, seemed vacant and lifeless. Major retailers folded up shop. Sibley’s and Midtown, once the epicenter of the city’s vibrancy, languished, doing relatively little to attract people downtown or to bring in […]
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Reining in rural sprawl
Lima is at a crossroads, literally and figuratively. The village of approximately 2,100 people got its start as a stop on a well-traveled cross-state road, a section of which is the modern Routes 5 and 20. A village landmark from the era, the American Hotel, still sits at the corner of that corridor and what’s […]
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Reckoning day nears for MCC campus
The future of Monroe Community College’s downtown campus might become clearer next month, or not. A year ago, the college’s Board of Trustees voted to move MCC out of the Sibley building in downtown Rochester. Board members recommended purchasing and renovating buildings in Kodak’s State Street complex, transforming that property into the new Damon City […]
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Sibley sale imminent
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards announced today that the sale
of the Sibley building to a Winn Development company is practically imminent.
