An indictment has been filed charging Robert Morgan and three of his colleagues with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud.
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The city should do an ‘arts impact’ study
City Council’s big, ornate Chambers in City Hall was packed last week with people concerned about the future of the key downtown piece of real estate known as Parcel 5. Mayor Lovely Warren has chosen a combination of a new theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League and an apartment building created by Morgan Communities. […]
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The hate that Trump bred
“Make America white again” signs. “Jews will not replace us” chants. Nazi flags. Torches and Nazi salutes. The predictable horror spawned by Donald Trump finally erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend in the white nationalists’ Unite the Right rally. The reaction of the president? To wag his finger at the resulting violence, which he […]
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Tensions build over a new RBTL theater
In April, Mayor Lovely Warren announced that she had chosen RBTL and Morgan Communities to develop Parcel 5, a key part of the former Midtown Plaza site. City Council has to approve sale of the land, and the mayor hasn’t sent Council a request for that sale. Warren’s choice was controversial from the beginning, because […]
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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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How the city made its Parcel 5 choice
If multiple large companies were moving their headquarters to downtown Rochester, or the county’s population were exploding, there’d have been a high-stakes bidding war over developing Midtown’s Parcel 5. Instead, city officials and developers had to choose from a small handful of proposals, each of them based partlyHowconfidence that current demand will continue for years. […]
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For Parcel 5: a theater topped by apartments
If City Council approves, a key part of the Midtown Plaza site will be developed as a 3000-seat theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League with a 50-apartment building on top of it.
