The City of Rochester may be settling on a more modest plan for redevelopment of Parcel 5 on Main Street. After a number of development plans were floated, Mayor Lovely Warren is now asking City Council to approve a $4.7 million grant application to turn Parcel 5 into a downtown performance venue. City […]
Governor Cuomo is delivering on the $50 million he previously pledged to the ROC the Riverway redevelopment project downtown. Before a groundbreaking ceremony for phase I of the massive project, Cuomo announced that the state funding package includes $6 million for upgrades at Blue Cross Arena, $5 million for renovations at the convention center; […]
Rochester’s Cadillac Hotel has closed and boarded up its doors….as the owners prepare for a renovation project. Sister Grace Miller of the House of Mercy and other homeless advocates protested in front of the hotel on Chestnut Street….saying the low income residents have been displaced so the nearly 100 year old hotel can […]