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The Rochester City Council is holding a public forum Thursday evening on the proposed Rochester Performing Arts Center…which Mayor Lovely Warren wants to see built on Parcel 5, the last piece of vacant land on the former Midtown Plaza site. It’s 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the City Council Chambers, and people can sign up to […]
Governor Cuomo told Watkins Glen officials this morning that they’ve won a $10 million Downtown Revitalizatiion grant from New York’s economic development program. Econ Development head Howard Zemsky says the Watkins Glen revitalization plan hit all the state’s markers, including tourism development, housing development and small business restoration in downtown. He says the state’s $10 million […]
The City of Rochester is about to renegotiate its cable television franchise, now with Spectrum/Time Warner, a process so important the city is paying $100,000 to an outside law firm for its expertise. The franchise agreement governs the terms by which Spectrum, the former Time Warner, is allowed to use the city’s public rights of […]