City officials have been working on a plan to revitalize the area around West Main Street and Chili Avenue for more than a decade.
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The future of Rochester in a few hundred pages
Part ‘vision,’ part hard realism, ‘Rochester 2034’ reflects changes in the city as well as new interests, hopes, and concerns.
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Developer Robert Morgan hit with fraud charges
Real estate developer Robert Morgan faces dozens of federal charges for his alleged role in what the US Attorney’s Office says was a half-billion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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CRCDS developer outlines plans for campus
Redevelopment of the 23-acre Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School property faces a challenge: producing enough income from new buildings to make it possible to preserve the historic main buildings and the broad lawn on the south side of the campus. At a meeting with Highland Park area residents Monday night, developer Angelo Ingrassia fleshed out […]
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Highland Hospital gets expansion OK
Highland Hospital and its residential neighbors have finally found some common ground, allowing the hospital to move ahead with its $70 million expansion plan. City Council unanimously approved Highland Hospital’s application last week to rezone the hospital’s 9.27-acre site from an Institutional Planned Development District to a Planned Development District. Highland needed the rezoning before […]
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Lessons for Rochester development from Detroit’s mayor
If planning and zoning don’t have a moral component, the poor –often people of color –won’t benefit from growth. They’ll suffer from it.
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More development proposed for the Inner Loop’s fill-in
Mayor Lovely Warren has chosen two more developers for the land created by filling in the east side of the Inner Loop downtown. For the highly visible site between East Avenue and Broad Street, she is recommending a unique, mixed-use development by Home Leasing: 66 one and two-bedroom apartments, a pharmacy for Trillium Health, and […]
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Divinity school has new buyer
The sale of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School’s campus to Top Capital of New York is off, CRCDS official Thomas McDade Clay, says. “But we have a new buyer,” said McDade Clay, who is the school’s vice president for institutional advancement. Top Capital had planned to invest $36 million in renovations to the divinity […]
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Is Rochester’s development meeting everybody’s needs?
Rochester has a serious shortage of quality housing for low-income residents and for the homeless. What’s our plan to deal with that?
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Groups want a shift in city development
More than 30 neighborhood, community, and activist organizations have formed the Our Land Roc coalition. They’re urging the city to change its approach to development so that it’s more collaborative and gives the public a greater voice.
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Amazon puts Rochester on Rejected Suitors list
Many of Amazon’s Top 20 are truly metropolitan. Almost all are either relatively big cities themselves or they’re very close to one.
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People pack City Council for Parcel 5 forum
City Council’s chambers needs better fans. With the room jam-packed with people Thursday night, things in the back got warm really quick — God bless the people who clung to their suits, sweaters, and jackets throughout the public forum. At a City Council public forum, almost 70 people, across more than two hours, spoke about […]
