As Republicans wrestle with tax reform, much of the public attention has been on things like corporate taxes, middle-income taxpayers, and deductions for mortgage interest and state and local taxes. Lurking in one of the reform proposals, though, is a change that would have a major impact on Rochester and many other cities: elimination of […]
Rochester preservation
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Landmark Society shines a spotlight on porches, a roundhouse…
Older buildings can give a neighborhood and an entire city or village a unique character that new developments don’t have – especially when there are a lot of older buildings, as there are in the Greater Rochester area. And preserving the buildings is important, not just because they’re nice to look at but also because […]
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Designing for a better city
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 […]
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Historic district for Park Avenue area?
Rochester has an impressive collection of houses, schools, small retail buildings, and other structures built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. And many of them have been preserved so well that entire neighborhoods look very much the way they did a century ago. Neighborhoods like those may be eligible for designation as a state […]
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