Monroe County officials are planning to put three buildings up for auction, including two buildings that were once part of the Renaissance Square project. The county plans to sell Gateway Centre, 150 East Main Street; the Edwards building, 34 St. Paul Street; and 37 South Fitzhugh Street. All three were donated to the county by […]
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Sibley theatrics make everyone look bad
So what are we to make of the bit of political theater that played out yesterday over the Sibley building? For starters, I feel sorry for the mayor. He’s from the private sector, after all. He’s used to accomplishing things. In government, everything takes longer, costs more, and has a way of pissing everyone off. […]
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Garth Fagan Q&A
FAGAN …on his dance, his dancers — and Ren Square Dance Garth Fagan’s voice resonates with a deep richness; a good-humored warmth. It conveys both the vibrant energy and seasoned emotional depth that he values so highly in his dancers. Fagan chooses his words carefully when discussing his Rochester-based dance company, often punctuating his comments […]
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Metro ink – 10-18-06
SAFDIE UNVEILS REN SQUARE DESIGN There were no earth-shattering revelations this time around, but the Renaissance Square project has taken one step closer to reality. At a public presentation last week, lead architect Moshe Safdie unveiled the latest iteration of design for the performing arts center-bus station-college complex. The new design doesn’t deviate substantially from […]
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The XX Files 2.22.06
The people are leaving. They’re packing up their cars and pulling their kids out of school, and they’re leaving and leaving and leaving. They’re looking for work. An average of nearly 1.7 million people has left the state in the past nine years, according to the Manhattan Institute. That’s nearly 200,000 — almost as much […]
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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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Reader feedback 4.13.05
Schiavo and hypocrisy, a Ren Square albatross, UN fantasies
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Turning Main Street’s vital corner
When Renaissance Square is built — and more than half of the needed $230 million in funding is already lined up — it will have an immeasurable effect on Rochester’s downtown. For good or ill, the project will alter the character of downtown’s architecture. Both of the finalists for the design of Renaissance Square — […]
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Marching for the dead
More than 100 people gathered at the Federal Building in downtown Rochester late last Friday afternoon, October 29, to mourn the death toll in Iraq. The mock funeral procession came just one day after The Lancet, a British medical journal, released a study estimating 100,000 “excess” civilian deaths in Iraq since the beginning of the […]
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Renaissance Square’s a pig in a poke
Well, maybe Governor Pataki will save us from ourselves. Late last week, Pataki said he would veto the budget approved by the state legislature earlier this month. There’s a move afoot to override his veto, but that’s iffy. And among the things at risk now: $18 million for Renaissance Square in downtown Rochester. […]
