Philanthropist Tom Golisano is withdrawing his $25 million gift for the proposed Performing Arts Center in downtown Rochester. Last month, city officials announced that the site of the proposed theater complex will move from Midtown Parcel 5 to the Riverfront, and the estimated price and size of the complex nearly doubled. Plans call for the […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren says the Riverside Hotel site in downtown Rochester will be the site of a downtown performing arts center, not Parcel 5. The aging Riverside Hotel will be demolished to make way for the project. Mayor Warren spoke in a news conference this morning, saying the Riverside Hotel will be demolished, […]
People packed into a public forum on the future of Parcel 5 at Midtown Thursday night, with more than 80 people signed up to speak at City Hall. The Finance Committee Chair of the Rochester Broadway Theater League, co- developer of the proposed performing arts center on Parcel 5, criticized a critique of the project […]