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Mayor seeking funds for Parcel 5 project
City Council will vote on July 23 on a request for $4.7 million in state funds to create an enclosed entertainment venue at Midtown’s Parcel 5. The Warren administration is considering transforming much of Parcel 5 into a Rochester version of Kansas City Live!, a block-long, covered complex that hosts concerts, major sports broadcasts, and […]
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City starts planning to remove more of the Inner Loop
City officials took the first step this week toward removing the rest of the Inner Loop slicing through the northern edge of downtown Rochester.
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Feedback 5/1
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Feedback 4/10
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Some unsolicited advice on Parcel 5: just chill
Eight years after Midtown’s demolition, city officials are still looking for something to put there. Maybe it’s time for a reality check.
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Feedback 11/14
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Golisano cancels funding for RBTL theater
[UPDATED] Philanthropist Tom Golisano has canceled his pledge of $25 million for a new theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League. Golisano announced the change in a press release this morning. “I originally made this decision to support the Performing Arts Center in 2016,” he said in the statement. “Now two years later, the project […]
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RBTL by the river: the next big thing
Moving RBTL’s theater from Parcel 5 to the riverside solves some problems, opens up new opportunities, and raises questions.
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RBTL theater site moves to the riverfront
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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Skatepark workshop is Wednesday
The Roc City Skatepark faced years of delay, but now the project is now moving forward at a serious pace. The City of Rochester is holding a design workshop for the project from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Frederick Douglass R-Center, 999 South Avenue. The park will be located under the Douglass-Anthony […]
