Eight years after Midtown’s demolition, city officials are still looking for something to put there. Maybe it’s time for a reality check.
Midtown Plaza
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The non-retiring Carlos Carballada
Carlos Carballada is kind of an enigma. Many people have never heard of him and couldn’t pick him out in a lineup. But in the worlds of commercial banking, city government, and education, he’s much more than well known: the 82-year old Carballada is a deeply admired elder statesman. Carballada’s success is a bit challenging […]
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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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Downtown’s next in Center’s sights
The downtown bus garage is not a place Audrey Stewart frequents late at
night
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Looking for solutions at East and Main
Is downtown Rochester ready to pull out of its 30-year slump? A panel of real-estate and development experts is in town this week, trying to come up with a strategy for revitalizing MidtownPlaza, the Sibley’s Building, and the undeveloped land just north of the Renaissance Square and Sibley sites. They’ll be touring the sites and […]
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Big gamble?
Plans to put a $500 million hotel and casino at MidtownPlaza and the SibleyBuilding are barreling ahead, with many local leaders unsure of their role in the proceedings. But word that nobody locally can have a say in the development may be inaccurate. Officials of Wilmorite (owner of the SibleyBuilding and several Rochester-area suburban […]
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Urban casinos: lessons, suggestions
One group that has been monitoring the casino proposal closely is the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, a non-profit economic development organization. The RDDC began intensive research on urban casinos and state land-claim settlements once casino talk started surfacing in the media months ago. Much of that research has been compiled on RDDC’s website (www.rochesterdowntown.com/news/casino_news.html). […]
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Wait just a damn minute!
Do the people of Greater Rochester want a casino downtown? Nobody knows. Nobody has asked. Would a casino help the economy? If so, would the benefits outweigh the costs that legalized gambling brings? Nobody knows. There’s been little chance to study it. Would a casino help downtown development efforts or hurt them? Would […]
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Merge and meld?
Merge and meld? Voters may seem to have squashed any thoughts of government consolidation last November, but cold, hard budget facts may force the issue back into public debate. Consolidation on a service level came up last week, for instance, at a City Council hearing on Mayor Bill Johnson’s budget proposal. Patricia Malgieri, CEO […]
