Developer Angelo Ingrassia, who hopes to buy and develop the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity school campus, has promised not to ever develop the sweeping south lawn on South Goodman Street and Highland Avenue. Ingrassia has agreed to a “preservation easement in perpetuity,” according to a statement today from his spokesperson. Ingrassia has been meeting with […]
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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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New life for old Academy Building
The four-story building at 13 South Fitzhugh Street is alive with activity as construction workers in hard hats and dusty dungarees file in and out of the front entry. Some workers haul materials up to the roof, while others caulk the ground-floor windows. Just inside the chain-link fence that guards the building’s perimeter stands a […]
