The Rochester Broadway Theatre League will get its new theater, if its fundraising is successful. But it won’t be on Parcel 5. It’ll be by the river, part of a large, $250 million multi-use complex on the site of the former Radisson Riverside Hotel on East Main Street, across the street from the Riverside Convention Center.
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Parcel 5 theater’s next act: an economic-benefits study
If you’re tracking news about the proposed theater for Parcel 5, put July 31 as your next check-in date. That’s the deadline for a new study that Mayor Lovely Warren wants done about the impact of the theater. It’s “reasonable to assume” that the project won’t move forward until that study is completed, says Warren […]
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A theater for Parcel 5?
A strong argument for the theater: If you increase the number of people walking around downtown, you increase people’s comfort level.
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Mayor: city will not go all out for theater
Don’t expect the City of Rochester to swoop in with a sweet offer to convince RBTL to build its new theater in downtown Rochester. If RBTL is serious about going to Irondequoit, Mayor Tom Richards says, it’ll go with his blessing. “I’m trying to be consistent with respect to what I think the civic responsibility […]
