Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says Rochester may not have gotten Amazon’s new second headquarters…but it’s getting a piece of Amazon all the same. Amazon has signed a lease agreement with local developer Frank Imburgia to locate a 70,000 square foot fulfillment center in an existing building on Clay Road in Henrietta. Dinolfo describes […]
Amazon has winnowed 238 applications down to the top 20 for its second headquarters site, and Rochester didn’t make the cut. You can read more about it here. Proposals came in from across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. One of them was a joint proposal from Rochester and Buffalo that oddsmakers ranked high, but it […]
Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce CEO Bob Duffy has written to his counterpart at Amazon, asking him to consider the Rochester region for the online retailer’s second headquarters. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has announced plans for a $5 billion second North American headquarters…somewhere in the U.S. It would be up to eight million square feet and […]