Trails, bridges, parks: The city hopes to capitalize on the presence of the Genesee River in some very creative ways.
Rochester downtown development
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A new City Council will face big challenges
Rochester’s city government will enter 2018 with a major change in its legislative branch. A third of City Council’s nine members will be new. And Council will be losing a lot of institutional memory: two of the three members who are leaving – Carolee Conklin and Dana Miller – have each served on Council for […]
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Feedback 12/6
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A question for City Hall: who is downtown for?
Downtown developers have gotten a good bit of public help, in the form of tax incentives and loans. Is that still necessary?
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No city loan to Morgan
City Council rejected a proposal yesterday for a $1.5 million loan to developer Robert Morgan for a residential project at 103 Court Street at South Avenue. In a 5-to-3 vote, Councilmembers Loretta Scott, Jackie Ortiz, Matt Haag, Molly Clifford, and Carolee Conklin voted against the measure. Voting for it: Elaine Spaull, Dana Miller, and Adam […]
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Council considering loan for Morgan development
Should Rochester taxpayers loan one of the region’s biggest developers $1.5 million? That issue is on the agenda for City Council’s November 14 meeting. Mayor Lovely Warren is asking Council to approve the loan to one of the Morgan development companies for apartments it’s building at the corner of South Avenue and Court Street. The […]
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Main Street reborn
if all goes as planned, the revitalization of the Main Street corridor, coupled with another major project – a complete redesign of Charles Carroll Plaza, the park that hugs the west side of the river – will dramatically change the way Rochesterians experience downtown.
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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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Imagining a downtown
What’s your vision for downtown Rochester? Some of the candidates we’ve talked with this summer have brought up that issue, and it’s a good time to talk about it. What do we want for this essential part of the city? Rochester’s downtown has changed dramatically over the past several decades, and it’ll likely never again […]
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The city should do an ‘arts impact’ study
City Council’s big, ornate Chambers in City Hall was packed last week with people concerned about the future of the key downtown piece of real estate known as Parcel 5. Mayor Lovely Warren has chosen a combination of a new theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League and an apartment building created by Morgan Communities. […]
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The hate that Trump bred
“Make America white again” signs. “Jews will not replace us” chants. Nazi flags. Torches and Nazi salutes. The predictable horror spawned by Donald Trump finally erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend in the white nationalists’ Unite the Right rally. The reaction of the president? To wag his finger at the resulting violence, which he […]
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Feedback 8/16
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