A consultant studying the potential impact of a new theater on Parcel 5 was in town yesterday, giving a brief update and taking questions from City Council members. And it was clear from his discussion that many of the city’s arts organizations are still very concerned about the proposed new venue for the Rochester Broadway Theater […]
Downtown Rochester development
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Downtown residents form a new urban coalition
The number of people moving into downtown Rochester during the last decade has steadily increased, and proposals for more housing and other development haven’t slowed down. While downtown’s buildings were once largely devoted to retail and commercial uses, the focus has changed. Now the area is evolving into a patchwork of small neighborhoods, and some […]
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Exit interviews: reflections from four city leaders
our longtime elected officials who have dealt with some of Rochester’s most serious challenges left office at the end of the year.
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How will we fill up downtown’s retail space?
As residential development continues downtown, we need to think creatively about how we use first-floor space in this post-retail environment.
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Campaign focus will include Parcel 5
When retailing was at its peak in downtown Rochester, much of Midtown Plaza occupied what is known as Parcel 5. Right now, though, Parcel 5 – arguably downtown’s most important development site – is a vast vacant lot, hosting occasional outdoor events and waiting for the future. And that future has become the focus of […]
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Feedback 5/3
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. We do edit selections for publication in print. Create a new public square With the city administration’s selection of the performing arts center for Parcel 5, attention must be paid to creation of a public square […]
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More growth downtown? Developers keep signing on
If there’s a market for them, the developments proposed for the Inner Loop land will bring people, life, and jobs downtown.
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We don’t need a park on the Midtown site
Parcel 5 is a valuable development site. We shouldn’t close out that option with a park that we simply don’t need.
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Downtown and its future
Careful planning and development incentives can guarantee that downtown will serve and benefit all of us.
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Our job after the tragedy of Pierson and the Glazers
Inexplicable, devastating, tragic… pick your own adjective. All apply to the deaths last week of Rochester Police Officer Daryl Pierson and entrepreneurs Larry and Jane Glazer. The people most profoundly affected are their families and co-workers, and nothing anybody can say can ease their pain. But all three deaths will have a deep, long-lasting impact […]
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Metro ink – 11-15-06
PLAZA PLANS? Why would the City of Rochester want to buy MidtownPlaza? For several reasons, maybe. But chief among them is fear. Fear that the wrong developer might buy it. City Council was to vote last night on approving an option to buy the massive complex. According to the terms of the deal, $250,000 gets […]
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Metro ink – 4.19.06
THE BIG TIME Some people tell big fish stories. Richard Cook tells big tree stories. A landscaper and self-described amateur naturalist, Cook says the Greater Rochester region is home to some of the state’s biggest trees. And he has spent hundreds of hours identifying them for New York’s Big Tree Register — more than anyone […]
