Home value sticker shock sweeps city after first re-assessments in four years.
Highland Park Neighborhood
Posted inNews & Opinion
Colgate neighbors sue over development
A group of residents near the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School campus are suing to stop local developer Angelo Ingrassia and his company, ROC Goodman, from moving forward with his plan to develop the site. The Colgate Neighbors group and several individually named neighbors of the project filed the lawsuit against the city, City […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
CRCDS developer outlines plans for campus
Redevelopment of the 23-acre Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School property faces a challenge: producing enough income from new buildings to make it possible to preserve the historic main buildings and the broad lawn on the south side of the campus. At a meeting with Highland Park area residents Monday night, developer Angelo Ingrassia fleshed out […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Highland Hospital gets expansion OK
Highland Hospital and its residential neighbors have finally found some common ground, allowing the hospital to move ahead with its $70 million expansion plan. City Council unanimously approved Highland Hospital’s application last week to rezone the hospital’s 9.27-acre site from an Institutional Planned Development District to a Planned Development District. Highland needed the rezoning before […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Aqueduct, Colgate worry preservationists
The Landmark Society of Western New York has usually used its annual “Five to Revive” list to draw public attention and financial support to restoring historic buildings throughout the Rochester region. With the list, the Landmark Society is telling communities and developers that there’s unmined gold in repurposing – rather than ignoring or demolishing — […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Highland Hospital’s expansion worries residents
Highland Hospital officials are planning a $70 million expansion that adds four more stories to its southeast wing. That part of the hospital, near Mt. Vernon Avenue and Bellevue Drive, is currently only three stories tall. Even though the expansion is within the hospital’s current footprint, the size and mass of the building has many […]
Posted inCulture
A renovated Dicky’s reopens and returns to the family
Residents of the Highland Park neighborhood, many of whom grew up there and decided to raise their own families in the area, are well familiar with the green building on the corner of Meigs and Caroline Streets. The building was built in 1880 and purchased by the Salvaggio family in 1922. Richard “Dick” Salvaggio opened […]
