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Designing a renaissance

“Brilliant.” That’s how Heidi Zimmer-Meyer, president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, describes the preliminary design for the most controversial part of Renaissance Square: the bus terminal. Architect Moshe Safdie unveiled his concept for Ren Square at a public forum last week. And while this stage really is “concept,” not completed design, there was major […]

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Renaissance man

It’s not every day you get to have lunch with an internationally respected architect. Nonetheless, Moshe Safdie expressed surprise that a crowd of nearly 900 turned out to see him over the noon hour last Thursday. The lead architect for the Renaissance Square Project said the crowd at the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation’s luncheon was […]

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