The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released a proposed plan to clean up parts of the Genesee River that were polluted by Eastman Kodak operations decades ago. It will host a public meeting on the proposal from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23, at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County’s […]
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Report provides a snapshot of the Genesee River
Kodak and the Genesee River are icons of Rochester, and each, in its own way, is a symbol for strength, collapse, and rebirth. The Mighty Genesee’s waters carved gorges throughout its path, powered the region’s industries, and have provided generations of Rochesterians with recreation: boating, fishing, gazing at roaring waterfalls. Kodak helped the city prosper, […]
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Key photonics site picked
The New York State Photonics Board of Officers has chosen a site at Eastman Business Park for a major manufacturing facility. During a meeting this morning, the board picked ON Semiconductor on Lake Avenue to host the AIM Photonics testing, assembly, and packaging facility. The company makes a variety of electronic devices, including power management systems […]
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Power plant sold
The complex network of industrial utilities inside Eastman Business Park is getting a new owner, again. And the buyers will pay to retrofit the park’s power plant with high-efficiency natural gas boilers, replacing its coal-fired ones. Recycled Energy Development reached a deal to sell its portfolio of site-specific power and utility systems – which includes […]
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PHOTONICS: Building Rochester’s future
A one-year report card on Rochester’s progress as the center of this new industry.
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Two tech companies coming to Rochester
The state will invest approximately $75 million to bring two technology companies to Rochester. Photonica and Avogy will use a state-owned clean room facility at Canal Ponds Business Park for research and development work and will establish manufacturing operations at Eastman Business Park, Governor Andrew Cuomo said this morning. Cuomo and other state and local […]
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Photonics: What? Why? How?
Rochester is undeniably excited about photonics, even if much of the community doesn’t know what it is. But there’s good reason for the buzz, since Rochester will be the heart of a national initiative to build an integrated photonics industry from the ground up. The Department of Defense is keen on integrated photonics, which basically […]
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Photonics HQ location settled
The first fight around a new national photonics institute is over, and it looks like everyone got a little bit of something. Rochester academic and political leaders were at odds with officials from SUNY Polytechnic Institute over where to put the institute’s headquarters. The local people wanted it at the Sibley Building, while SUNY Poly […]
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The Eastman engine
It’s fitting that the fate of Kodak’s massive industrial complex on West Ridge Road, at least for the foreseeable future, will be tied to film.
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Columbia Care gets marijuana license for Eastman Business Park
Columbia Care has been awarded a state license to establish a medical marijuana growing and dispensing operation at Eastman Business Park. The company plans to lease 204,000 square feet in a Kodak film-manufacturing facility built in 1921. It announced the seven-year lease agreement with Kodak and Eastman Business Park in June. Under the state’s medical marijuana law, […]
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Eastman Business Park officially for sale
This morning, Kodak announced that it’s putting Eastman Business Park up for sale. The company had been selling off chunks of the park to outside businesses or leasing space in its buildings. But now the company wants to offload the remaining property entirely. From its press release: “Kodak believes the uniquely well-equipped site can best continue […]
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Kodak and EPA agree on clean-up plan for Eastman Business Park
When a bankruptcy court decided that Kodak could emerge from Chapter 11, its permission was contingent on the company’s ability to reach a deal with the federal Environmental Protection Agency regarding pollution at the site. Kodak and the EPA have made that deal. Specifically, the EPA has endorsed the 2013 settlement between the New York […]
