There are big expansion plans in the works for The Marketplace Mall, but they don’t include the addition of any big-box store or other retailers. Instead, the University of Rochester, the town of Henrietta and Wilmorite have announced plans for a new tenant —UR Medicine’s Orthopedics and Physical Performance Center. The 330,000-square-foot facility would include […]
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Wilmorite withdraws Pittsford hotel proposal
Wilmorite has pulled its application to redevelop key property along Schoen Place in the Village of Pittsford, according to a notice sent out by the village this afternoon. Village officials say that they were notified of the company’s decision to withdraw its application on Friday by its attorney, Alan Knauf. Wilmorite planned to buy the […]
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Feedback 9/26
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. We edit selections for publication in print, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. The left has moved right Mary Anna Towler’s column “One Nation Indivisible?” (Urban Journal) cites a New Yorker article saying […]
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Bad memories haunt Sibley deal
The extended limbo in which the City of Rochester has found itself over the Sibley building — unable to collect on a huge outstanding debt, unwilling to foreclose on a massive, underused building — has made City Council members gun-shy. They say they want to make sure the city doesn’t fall into the same trap […]
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Reader feedback 9.29.04
Suburban sprawl, the Bush-Kerry race, city
investments
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Say what?
It’s gone from hot topic to footnote in a matter of weeks. Mall magnate and Wilmorite CEO Tom Wilmot’s proposal for an Indian-run casino in downtown Rochester seems dead in the water. First, Governor George Pataki told the media he wasn’t even considering a Rochester location. Then news came out of Albany that all land-claim […]
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Win? Lose? Draw?
Mall magnate Tom Wilmot made his proposal for a downtown Rochester casino official last week, in an article published by the Democrat and Chronicle. And tucked away amidst the glitzy renderings of a drastically altered Main Street was an independent assessment of the casino’s social and economic impact. Prepared by the Center for Governmental Research, […]
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Big gamble?
Plans to put a $500 million hotel and casino at MidtownPlaza and the SibleyBuilding are barreling ahead, with many local leaders unsure of their role in the proceedings. But word that nobody locally can have a say in the development may be inaccurate. Officials of Wilmorite (owner of the SibleyBuilding and several Rochester-area suburban […]
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Urban casinos: lessons, suggestions
One group that has been monitoring the casino proposal closely is the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, a non-profit economic development organization. The RDDC began intensive research on urban casinos and state land-claim settlements once casino talk started surfacing in the media months ago. Much of that research has been compiled on RDDC’s website (www.rochesterdowntown.com/news/casino_news.html). […]
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Wait just a damn minute!
Do the people of Greater Rochester want a casino downtown? Nobody knows. Nobody has asked. Would a casino help the economy? If so, would the benefits outweigh the costs that legalized gambling brings? Nobody knows. There’s been little chance to study it. Would a casino help downtown development efforts or hurt them? Would […]
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Big debt downtown
Economic development can be a gamble between public officials and private real-estate developers. When the gamble pays off, everybody wins. The developer attracts tenants to a property, such as businesses that create jobs, pay taxes, and improve the general economic climate in the area. The developer makes a profit. And the public entity that […]
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If we build it, will they come?
What will it take to breathe life into the center of downtown Rochester? The
corporate crusaders of Wilmorite Inc. thought they had an answer.
