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USA Today readers voted del Lago Resort & Casino the fourth-best casino hotel in the United States, besting notable locales such as Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Casino, The Wynn Las Vegas & Encore Resort and Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas ...

The Rochester Area Community Foundation set record highs for dollars awarded and charitable funds established during fiscal year 2018-19. The organization awarded $37 million through 6,943 grants between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019. They were made through the ...

Redevelopment of Buffalo’s downtown skyway will be done with a big assist from three Rochester-based firms. SWBR, Fisher Associates and MRB Group combined forces to create the winning entry in the state’s Aim for the Sky: The Buffalo Skyway Corridor Competition. Throughout the ...

During his 13 years as president, chairman and/or CEO of Conifer Realty LLC, Tim Fournier has helped the Rochester-based firm make a significant impact in the affordable housing industry. One project, Erie Harbor, revived a three-block stretch of Mount Hope ...

With so few houses available on the market, more homeowners are choosing to give their current living space a new feel by remodeling or renovating. Sometimes, however, homeowners have an unrealistic expectation of the time it will take to complete ...

For decades, it was perhaps the most underutilized thoroughfare in Rochester, an urban-renewal-era roadway meant to move drivers into and out of downtown in rapid fashion. In reality, the Inner Loop was very much a moat, sans water. The sunken, ...

A Rockland County-based real estate investment firm has bought eight apartment properties that were formerly owned and managed by developer Robert Morgan. Berkley Properties LLC of Nanuet earlier this month completed the purchase of Wedgewood West in Henrietta and Brockport ...

Saratoga Pharmacy has been recognized by Digital Pharmacist for having the best “text reminder adherence program” among more than 7,500 independent pharmacists across the country. Digital Pharmacist is a software company that powers digital communications and adherence solutions for pharmacies. ...

Scholarships totaling $15,000 were recently awarded to seven students by the Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) and The Architectural Foundation of Greater Rochester (AFGR). Leah Przybylski, who attends Rochester Institute of Technology, received a $4,500 ...

Melissa Wentland, project manager at DGA Builders, will serve a second year as president of the National Association for Women in Construction — Greater Rochester Chapter. Wentland has been on the NAWIC board since 2015. She was a finalist for the ...

The management baton is about to be passed to the next generation of leaders at LaBella Associates. Steve Metzger will succeed Sergio Esteban as CEO, Jeff Roloson will take over from Robert Healy as president and Mike Winderl slides into ...

Kevin Momot is proof that you can go “home.” Six years after leaving The Daily Record, Momot has returned. Only this time, instead of overseeing operations for just one publication, he’ll be publisher and sales director of both the Rochester ...

Neighbors of the now-vacant Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School are suing the City of Rochester, the city’s manager of zoning, a developer and the school itself, claiming environmental concerns were ignored and policy violated when rezoning of the site cleared ...

The Rochester area has the lowest risk in the nation of a housing-market downturn when the next recession hits, according to analysis by Redfin. The technology-powered real estate brokerage says the next recession most likely will not have a great ...

When it comes to large capital expenditures, regardless of how great they seem, there first must always be a thorough review and cost analysis calculation. Does it make sense from a practical perspective? Does it make cents from a budget ...

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