The City of Rochester, says Maria Furgiuele, is experiencing a long-awaited renaissance, and it has a chance to shape its future in a way that will benefit all of its residents – and attract new ones. With thoughtful planning, she says, the city can provide quality housing for all of its people, create mass transit […]
Rochester downtown development
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The non-retiring Carlos Carballada
Carlos Carballada is kind of an enigma. Many people have never heard of him and couldn’t pick him out in a lineup. But in the worlds of commercial banking, city government, and education, he’s much more than well known: the 82-year old Carballada is a deeply admired elder statesman. Carballada’s success is a bit challenging […]
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Warren’s budget ready for scrutiny
Mayor Lovely Warren presented her proposed budget for the coming fiscal year on Friday. And while it contains nothing dramatic – no big layoffs, no big tax increases, no major new programs – the budget is noteworthy for the picture of Rochester it provides. Now it heads to analysis: by the public, City Council, and […]
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How the city made its Parcel 5 choice
If multiple large companies were moving their headquarters to downtown Rochester, or the county’s population were exploding, there’d have been a high-stakes bidding war over developing Midtown’s Parcel 5. Instead, city officials and developers had to choose from a small handful of proposals, each of them based partlyHowconfidence that current demand will continue for years. […]
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For Parcel 5: a theater topped by apartments
If City Council approves, a key part of the Midtown Plaza site will be developed as a 3000-seat theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League with a 50-apartment building on top of it.
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Feedback 3/29
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com or our Facebook page. Comments of fewer than 350 words have a greater chance of being published, and we do edit selections for publication in print. We don’t publish comments sent to other media. Best for Parcel 5: Visionary Square In the book “Happy […]
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Building up
There’s a lot of construction happening downtown. Here’s what to expect to open
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Downtown and its future
Right now, downtown is just one community center among many, and it’s in competition with its suburban neighbors.
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‘I Believe’: Fringe and Rochester’s future
“The Book of Mormon” is headed back to Rochester, complete with the fresh-faced, dizzily optimistic Elder Price singing “I Believe.” And that song has been running through my mind the last several days, competing with less happy thoughts. Rochester has been through a tough time this month, losing, in the space of 48 hours, a […]
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Downtown rising?
Do I say this every year? The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival gives us a nine-day glimpse of what we could be. It’s not just the massive crowds in front of the outdoor stages for the free performances, or headline acts that sell out in minutes. It’s the hour-plus lines to get into Kilbourn and […]
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The Richards record
Tom Richards, who leaves office this week, has been a clear-eyed, pragmatic mayor. He understands finances, understands development, understands business, understands government. And he operates from the basis of what he thinks will work and what is possible. In many respects, he’s been a steady-as-you-go kind of mayor, continuing the solid fiscal management of the […]
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Lessons from Detroit
Last week was a tough week in Rochester, with the news about Valeant moving the B+L headquarters to New Jersey and laying off hundreds of employees here. And I keep thinking about Detroit’s bankruptcy. There are a lot of differences between us, certainly, beginning with the sheer magnitude of Detroit and its problems. Detroit spreads […]
